Faculty Profile - Yorai Wardi

Professor
Systems and Controls (2008-09 Group Chair)

Phone: 404.894.8326
Fax: 404.894.4641
Office: VL E478

Biography

Yorai Wardi received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences under the guidance of Professor E. Polak at UC Berkeley in 1982. From 1982 to 1984 he was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories and Bell Communications Research. Since 1984 he has been at Georgia Tech where currently he is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He spent the 1987-88 academic year at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben Gurion University, Israel. Dr. Wardi is an associate editor of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications, a past associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2001-2003), and a past member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board (1999-2000).

Selected Publications, Patents

Research Interests

Analysis and optimization of discrete event dynamic systems
Sample-path sensitivity analysis of stochastic flow models
Optimal control of hybrid, switched-mode dynamical systems

Distinctions

Last revised on July 25, 2006.