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Information and Telecommunication Technology Center (ITTC)

ITTC Contacts

Tyrone Duncan
 
Faculty
Tyrone Duncan
Professor, Mathematics

ITTC Lab Affiliation(s)
   Communications and Networking Systems Laboratory
Contact Info
Primary Office: 512 Snow
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045-7559
Phone: (785)864-3032
Fax: (785)864-0387

Secondary Office: 152 Nichols
Phone: (785)864-7349

Email Address: duncan@math.ku.edu
Awards

  • Fellow of IEEE
  • Olin K. Petefish Award in the Basic Sciences (Higuchi/Endowment Research Achievement Award), University of Kansas, 1999
Biography

Tyrone Duncan received his bachelor's degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his master's and doctoral degrees from Stanford University. He has held regular positions at the University of Michigan, the State University of New York-Stony Brook, and the University of Kansas. He has held visiting positions at the University of California--Berkeley, Harvard University, and the University of Bonn. He is the author or co-author of more than 125 papers in the areas of stochastic optimal control, adaptive control, filtering and communication as well as related topics in probability. He is member of the editorial boards of SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

Education
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 1967.
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 1964.
B.E.E., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1963.

Teaching
Stochastics of mathematical finance, Stochastic analysis and its applications, Stochastic adaptive control of linear partial differential equations, Applied mathematics seminar, Differential equations, Probability theory.

Research Interests
Explicitly solvable stochastic control problems, Stochastic control of distributed parameter systems, Stochastic adaptive control of linear and nonlinear systems, Mathematics of finance and stochastic modeling, Mathematics and telecommunication, Math education.