Dr. David Luenberger

Biography

David G. Luenberger received his B.S. degree from the California Institute of Technology and both his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University in Electrical Engineering. He joined the faculty at Stanford University in 1963 and was instrumental in founding the Department of Engineering-Economic Systems, which later merged to become the Department of Management Science and Engineering. He served as a Technical Assistant to the President's Science Advisor from 1971 to 1972 and has held visiting professorships at prestigious institutions such as the Technical University of Denmark and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Luenberger has served as the Chairman of the Department at Stanford from 1980 to 1991. His accolades include being a member of the National Academy of Engineering and receiving the Bode Lecture Prize from the Control Systems Society. He has published six major textbooks and over eighty journal papers, focusing on control theory, optimization theory, and investment theory.

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