Sean P. Meyn

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

I have left Illinois!

I am now in Gainesville, Florida
Professor and Robert C. Pittman Eminent Scholar Chair
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Florida

Where I am launching the new

Laboratory for Cognition & Control

E-mail: meyn AT ece.ufl.edu
Website: www.meyn.ece.ufl.edu

Assistant (Marcy Lee White): mlb AT ece.ufl.edu

Research

Markov Tutorial CDC Shanghai 2009
Tutorial for Energy Systems Week - Cambridge 2010
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Tribute to Richard Tweedie

Instruction

Conference Activities
 

Sponsored projects

Current support from United Technologies Research Center, AFOSR, DARPA, the Department of Energy, and the National Science Foundation

  • DOE Project, Extending the Realm of Optimization for Complex Systems: Uncertainty, Competition and Dynamics
  • DARPA ITMANET
  • NSF-CPS award (with Florida and Columbia) / GOALI with United Technologies Research Center, Designing and operating high performance buildings of the future through embedded estimation and control (with P. Mehta @UIUC)
  • NSF CCF 08-30776 Steganographic and Steganalytic Methods for Timing Channels with Side Information (with P. Moulin @UIUC)
  • NSF CCF 07-29031 Robust Inference and Communication: Theory Algorithms and Performance Analysis (with V. Veeravalli @UIUC)
  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research, INFORMATION THEORETIC PARADIGMS FOR MODELING, INFERENCE AND DECISION MAKING IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS (with P. Mehta @UIUC)
 

Biography

Sean P. Meyn received the B.A. degree in Mathematics Summa Cum Laude from UCLA in 1982, and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University in 1987 (with Prof. P. Caines). After a two year postdoctoral fellowship at the Australian National University in Canberra, Dr. Meyn and his family moved to the Midwest. He is now Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois. He is an IEEE fellow.

Dr. Meyn has served on the editorial boards of several journals in the systems and control, and applied probability areas. He was a University of Illinois Vice Chancellor's Teaching Scholar in 1994; is coauthor with Richard Tweedie of the monograph Markov Chains and Stochastic Stability, Springer-Verlag, London, 1993; and received jointly with Tweedie the 1994 ORSA/TIMS Best Publication In Applied Probability Award. His new book, Control Techniques for Complex Networks is published by Cambridge University Press.

He has held visiting positions at universities all over the world, including the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore during 1997-1998 where he was a Fulbright Research Scholar. During his latest sabbatical during the 2006-2007 academic year he was a visiting professor at MIT and United Technologies Research Center (UTRC). His research interests include stochastic processes, optimization, complex networks, and information theory.

Research Interests

  • Markov processes (with or without control), spectral theory and large deviations
  • Stochastic approximation, reinforcement learning and simulation
  • Communication networks: capacity, control, and resource allocation
  • Detection and inference
  • Inventory models: control, visualization, and performance
  • Economics with applications to energy markets