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Kagan Tumer

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Associate Professor

Dynamics and Control


Office: Rogers 426
Tel: 541-737-9899
Fax: 541-737-2600
Email: kagan.tumer@oregonstate.edu

http://engr.oregonstate.edu/~ktumer

MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas, 1992
PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas, 1996
BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Mason University, 1989

At OSU since 2006.
Senior Research Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center, 1997–2006
Visiting Assistant Professor, The University of Texas, San Antonio, 1996–1997


Research Interests

Current research interests are focused on learning, optimization and control in large complex systems. Specific projects include learning and coordination in multi-agent systems; distributed reinforcement learning; and evolutionary algorithms for control and optimization.

Applications of this work include multiple robot and/or unmanned aerial vehicle coordination, micro air vehicle control, air traffic flow management, congestion management in transportation systems and intelligent data/jobs/power routing.