Behrouz Touri

Behrouz Touri is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). His academic background includes a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an M.Sc. in Communications, Systems and Electronics from Jacobs University, Bremen, and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology.

Research Interests: Dr. Touri specializes in theoretical and applied problems across Control Theory, Stochastic Processes, Game Theory, and Optimization. His work bridges mathematical foundations with applications in Distributed Systems and Machine Learning.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2008-2011)
• M.Sc. in Communications, Systems and Electronics, Jacobs University, Germany (2006-2008)
• B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran (2001-2006)

Advising: Dr. Touri has mentored numerous Ph.D. and M.Sc. students at UCSD, including Xinran Zheng (jointly advised with Tara Javidi), Zhuqing Li, and alumni like Ashwin Verma (Purdue), Rohit Parasnis (MIT), and Kaitlyn Garifi (Lineage Logistics). His former advisees include students now at Stanford, MIT, UC Irvine, and CU Boulder.