Nahum Shimkin
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Coordinates:

            Electrical Engineering Department Tel.   +972-4-8294734
            Technion City               Fax   +972-4-8295757
            Haifa 32000                                   Office: #653, EE (Mayer) building
ISRAEL e-mail: shimkin@ee.technion.ac.il 

Topics of Interest:

• Reinforcement Learning
• Stochastic Control, Markov Decision Processes
• Communication Networks: Management and Control
• Queueing System: Game Theoretic Analysis and Control
• Optimal Trajectory Planning: Numerical Methods
• Optimal Filtering and Target Tracking
• Intelligent Systems and Robotics

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F GRADUATE STUDENTS

Editorial and Public Activity (recent):

• President of IAAC - Israeli Association for Automatic Control (2008 –2011)
• Associate Editor for SICON: Siam Journal on Control and Optimization (2007 –2010)
• Associate Editor for Dynamic Games and Applications (2010–)
• Associate Editor for Mathematics of Operations Research (2013-)

Recent Courses

Current (Winter 2012/3):

· Distributed Estimation and Control in Multi-Agent Networks (Advanced Topics, 048715)

Other

· Control of Queues and Stochastic Systems (Advanced Topics, 048715):

· Learning in Complex Systems (049004), Spring 2011

· Intelligent Systems Engineering (049717), Spring 2010

Laboratory Affiliation

• The Control and Robotics Laboratory (CRL)

Lecture Notes

Ÿ Reinforcement Learning (English, 2010)
Graduate course: Learning in Complex Systems (049004)

Ÿ Kalman Filtering and Beyond (English, 2009)
Graduate course: Estimation and Identification in Dynamical Systems (048825)

Ÿ Nonlinear Control Systems, 046196 (Hebrew, 1995)

Additional Links

• Israeli Association for Automatic Control (IAAC)
• Technion Machine Learning Center (TMLC)
• Technion Autonomous Systems Program (TASP)