Graduate students of Adam Shwartz

Ph.D.

Eitan Altman:  “Controlled Markov chains under constraints''; Ph.D., June 1990.  Currently Director of Research, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis and Invited Professor at the University of Avignon, Agroparc campus.  For papers describing this and later joint work see my cv.

Nahum Shimkin: “Stochastic Control of Distributed Systems''; Ph.D., April 1992. Currently Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, Technion. For papers describing this and later joint work see my cv.

David Levanony: “Recursive methods for identification in continuous-time stochastic Processes''; Ph.D., May 1992. Co-advisor: Prof. O. Zeitouni. Currently Senior Lecturer, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben Gurion University. For papers describing this work see my cv.

 

M.Sc.

Michael Nehorai: “Recursive estimation in Semi-Markov models," M.Sc., June 1990.

Rachel Levi: “A theory of approachability and throughput-delay tradeoff in a queue with impatient customers," M.Sc., June 1994. For the paper describing this work see my cv.

Mathew Jacobson: “Two time scale Markov Decision processes." M.Sc., October 1994--February 1999. (Co-advisor, together with Nahum Shimkin.) For the paper describing this work see my cv. This is also described in greater details in two reports: Part I (ps, pdf) and part II (ps, pdf). Mathew obtained his Ph.D. from Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2006 and is now in the Biotechnology industry.

Alexander Zadorojniy: Constrained Markov decision processes with applications to wireless communications. 2003- June 2004. For the paper describing this work see my cv. Now a Ph.D. student, Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University.

Maxim Ioresh: Large deviations for a polling system with exhaustive service. October 2003—August 2005.

 

Others

Yair Carmon wrote a report as part of a "personal topics" or "advanced topics" course: "Markov decision processes with general discount functions", completed November 2007.

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