Takashi Tanaka
Title
Associate Professor
Office
ARMS 3327
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Education
BS, University of Tokyo, 2006
MS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2012
MS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2012
Research Areas
Information theory in control, security and privacy in networked control systems, robust and stochastic optimal control, dynamic market design, neuromorphic sensing.
Biography
Takashi Tanaka is an Associate Professor at the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He received his B.S. from the University of Tokyo and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in aerospace engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Tanaka was a Postdoctoral Associate with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2012 to 2015, and a postdoctoral researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology from 2015 to 2017. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin between 2017 and 2024, where he was an Associate Professor in 2024. Dr. Tanaka's research interests include control theory and its applications, most recently the information-theoretic perspectives of optimal control problems. He received the DARPA Young Faculty Award, the AFOSR Young Investigator Program Award, and the NSF Career Award.