Dr. Yorai Wardi


yorai.wardi@ece.gatech.edu
Van Leer
E 478
US
Office: (404) 894-8326
Fax: (404) 894-4641

Instructor information

Professor
Systems & Controls Group

Biography

Yorai Wardi received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California at Berkeley in 1982. While at Berkeley he conducted research in nondifferentiable optimization and developed algorithms for optimal design of control systems and flexible structures.

From 1982 to 1984 Dr. Wardi was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories, and following the divestiture of the Bell System, at Bell Communications Research. His assignments there involved protocol planning for telecommunications networks.

Dr. Wardi joined the ECE faculty in 1984. He spent the 1987-1988 academic year visiting Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management.

Research Interests

  • Analysis and optimization of discrete event dynamical systems
  • Gradient estimation via simulation
  • Modeling for rapid simulation of high-speed networks
  • Optimal control of manufacturing systems