Seminar: Stochastic Adventures in Systems and Controls

SEMINAR 

DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING 

Stochastic Adventures in Systems and Controls

Behrouz Touri,

UIUC

Abstract:

In this talk, we will visit two developments in control theory that are closely connected to, and impacted by, results in probability theory. First, we discuss the controllability of safety-critical stochastic systems and how Martingale theory leads to the design and analysis of control policies for such systems. Time permitting, we will discuss the controllability of random networks and show how modern developments in random matrix theory and inverse Littlewood-Offord Theory resolve challenging problems in this domain.

Keywords: Control theory, probability theory, Martingale theory, random matrix theory, inverse Littlewood-Offord Theory

Short Bio: 

Behrouz Touri is Associate Professor of the Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and an affiliate faculty of the ECE Departments at UIUC and University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Prior to joining UIUC, he was an Associate Professor of ECE at the UCSD. He received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran in 2006, his M.Sc. degree in Communications, Systems, Electronics from Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany in 2008, and his Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2011. His research interests include applied probability theory, distributed optimization, control and estimation, population dynamics, and game theory. He is the recipient of the American Control Council’s Donald P. Eckman Award in 2018.

All interested are cordially invited.  

DATE:  July 3, 2026 

TIME:  Friday, 14:00-15:00 

ROOM: VYKM 2