Hans Witsenhausen

Hans Witsenhausen was a prominent American control theorist, born in 1930, who made significant contributions to the fields of control theory and information theory. His work focused on the intersection of these two disciplines, yielding numerous foundational results that have had a lasting impact on the development of control theory and information theory.

Throughout his career, Witsenhausen published notable works, including the intrinsic model in stochastic decentralized control and the Witsenhausen counterexample. He also conducted research on the Turán graph and explored various notions of common information in information theory. Witsenhausen's contributions to the field of technology have been recognized, and he remained a respected figure in his field until his passing in 2016.