MARWAN A. SIMAAN

Prof. MARWAN A. SIMAAN

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MARWAN A. SIMAAN received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana– Champaign, in 1972. He was the Bell of PA/Bell Atlantic Professor and the Former Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, which he joined in 1976. He joined the University of Central Florida, in 2008, where he is currently the Florida 21st Century Chair and the Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His research interests include control systems, game theory, economics, optimization, and signal processing. Simaan is well known for his two classic papers with J. B. Cruz, Jr., published in JOTA in 1973 that were the first to introduce the concept of Stackelberg Leader-Follower strategies in dynamic games. These papers were the foundation of the Time Inconsistency theory in dynamic games that had considerable influence on Behavioral Economics in the 1980s and 90s. His 1978 paper with T. Takayama published in Automatica was the first to formulate and solve the duopoly problem as a differential game. In these areas Simaan published 150 journal papers and 230 conference publications. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, a Life Fellow of IEEE and ASEE; and a fellow of AAAS, AIMBE, and NAI. He is a Registered Professional Engineer with the Commonwealth

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