Dimitri Bertsekas: key obituary facts
Is Dimitri Bertsekas dead? Yes. Dimitri Bertsekas died on June 3, 2026, at age 83.
Cause of death: Dimitri Bertsekas's cause of death has not been publicly confirmed.
What was Dimitri Bertsekas known for?
He was a Greek computer scientist and mathematician.
More about Dimitri Bertsekas
Born: 1 January 1942.
Place of birth: Athens.
Gender: male.
Occupation: mathematician, computer scientist, engineer, university teacher, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer.
Nationality: Greece.
Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, National Technical University of Athens, George Washington University.
Employer: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Awards: John R. Ragazzini Education Award, Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, The George B. Dantzig Prize, John von Neumann Theory Prize, IEEE Control Systems Award.
Father: Pantelis Mbertsekas.
Also known as: Dimitri P. Bertsekas, Dimitri Panteli Bertsekas.
Known for: Nonlinear programmingConvex optimizationDynamic programmingApproximate dynamic programmingStochastic systems and Optimal control Data communication network optimization.
Dimitri Bertsekas, a Greek mathematician and computer scientist whose work shaped nonlinear programming, convex optimization and dynamic programming, died on June 3, 2026, at age 83.
Born in Athens in 1942, he studied at the National Technical University of Athens before continuing at George Washington University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned a doctorate in system science in 1971. He went on to spend much of his career at MIT, teaching in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and building a reputation through research and textbooks in optimization, control, reinforcement learning and applied probability.
His work also extended to data communication and transportation networks, and electric power generation. Among the honors he received were the John R. Ragazzini Education Award, the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, the George B. Dantzig Prize, the John von Neumann Theory Prize and the IEEE Control Systems Award.