Edward Ott (born 22 December 1941) is an American physicist and electrical engineer, who is a professor at University of Maryland, College Park.

He attended Stuyvesant High School, received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from The Cooper Union, and his Ph.D. in electrophysics from The Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1967.

[2][3] Prior to his work on chaos and complex systems, Professor Ott had done extensive research in the field of plasma physics.

Some examples are the following: In what is perhaps Ott's most well-known contribution, he and his colleagues Celso Grebogi and James A. Yorke introduced the concept of controlling chaos.

The key idea in this work is that embedded within a chaotic attractor there are typically an infinite number of unstable periodic orbits, any one of which can be stabilized by a small control (the O.G.Y.