Alex Olshevsky

Biography

Alex Olshevsky is an assistant professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at Boston University. He received a B.S. in applied mathematics and electrical engineering from Georgia Tech in 2004, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from MIT in 2006 and 2010, both in electrical engineering and computer science. Previously, he was a postdoctoral scholar at Princeton University and an assistant professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 

Olshevsky is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the Young Investigator Award from the Air Force, two best paper awards from SIAM and INFORMS, and three awards for teaching/advising during his time at the University of Illinois.

His research interests focus on distributed control and optimization, with an eye to designing policies that allow teams of autonomous agents (such as formations of vehicles, mobile sensors, or nodes in a communication network) to cooperate and function reliably time-varying environments. A particular emphasis of his recent work is on decentralized learning in multi-agent systems. He is also interested in algorithms and fundamental limitations for the control of large-scale or networked systems.