Abstract:
In this talk, we study products of random stochastic matrices and their applications. We show that under a general condition, products of random stochastic matrices converge. The implications of this result in models of opinions dynamics in social networks and their convergence rate analysis are considered.

Speaker Bio:
Behrouz Touri received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran in 2006, his  M.S. degree in communications, systems & electronics from Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany in 2008, and his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under supervision of Professor Angelia Nedich (2011). He is currently a postdoctoral researcher with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Georgia Tech Institute of Technology. His research interests include random dynamics, applied probability theory, game theory and learning, and decentralized optimization, control, and estimation.