Dr. Eilyan Bitar

Associate Professor

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Biography

Eilyan Bitar is currently an Associate Professor and Croll Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. Prior to joining Cornell in 2012, Bitar spent a year as a joint Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology and UC Berkeley. In 2016, he was invited as a Visiting Scientist at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing as part of the research program on Algorithms Under Uncertainty. At Cornell, Bitar serves as a Faculty-in-Residence at Hu Shih Hall. He is a native of California and received his B.S. and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 2006 and 2011, respectively.

Research Interests

Robust Stochastic Optimization Control Theory Game Theory Sustainable Transportation Electric Power Systems Complex Systems Network Science Computational Energy Environment Algorithms Statistics Machine Learning Information Theory Communications Information Networks Decision Systems

Awards

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Bezos Earth Fund Award

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National Science Foundation CAREER Award

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David D. Croll Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow

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John Janet McMurtry Fellowship

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John G. Maurer Fellowship

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Robert F. Steidel Jr. Fellowship

Requirements for Cornell University

Master Program
Requirements
TOEFL
Listening
Required:15
Reading
Required:20
Writing
Required:20
Speaking
Required:22
Total
Required:100
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in Architecture or related field
Application Checklist
  • Online application
  • Portfolio (SlideRoom)
  • Academic Statement of Purpose
  • Personal Statement
  • Transcripts
  • Two letters of recommendation
  • Resume/CV
Specialization Notes

Department of Architecture