David Luenberger

Luenberger David Gilbert ( born September 16, 1937 in Los Angeles ) is an American computer scientist, economist and professor at Stanford University.

He earned his bachelor's degree in 1959 at Caltech and received his PhD in 1963 in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University with William Linvill ( Determining the State of a Linear System with Observers of low dynamic order ). In his thesis he introduced the eponymous Luenberger observer is widely used especially in the field of control engineering today. 1961/62 he was an engineer at Westinghouse Electric in 1963 before he was Assistant Professor at Stanford University. In 1967 he became Associate Professor and in 1971 he received a full professorship.

He was one of the founders of the Department of Engineering - Economics Systems at Stanford in 1967 and served for eleven years as its director. Luenberger can look back on more than 70 publications in the areas of system theory, optimization, business and investment.

In 1990 he received the Hendrik W. Bode Prize of the IEEE ( Control Systems section ) and he received the Oldenburger Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

He has been married since 1962 and has five children.

Writings

• With Yinyu Ye: Linear and nonlinear programming, Springer Verlag 2008
• Information Science, Princeton University Press 2006
• Introduction to dynamic systems: theory, models, and applications, Wiley 1979
• Microeconomic Theory, McGraw Hill 1979
• Investment science, Oxford University Press 1998
• Introduction to linear and nonlinear programming, Addison -Wesley 1973