Hans Witsenhausen

Hans Witsenhausen
Born(1930-05-30)May 30, 1930
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
DiedNovember 19, 2016(2016-11-19) (aged 86)
New York City, US
Known forWitsenhausen counterexample
Academic background
EducationUniversité libre de Bruxelles
MIT
ThesisMinimax control of uncertain systems (1966)
Doctoral advisorMichael Athans
Academic work
InstitutionsElectronic Associates, inc.
Bell Labs

Hans Sylvain Witsenhausen (6 May 1930 – 19 November 2016) is notable for his work in the fields of control theory and information theory, and their intersection. He has many foundational results including the intrinsic model in stochastic decentralized control, the Witsenhausen counterexample. his work on Turán graph, and the various notions of common information in information theory.

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