Tamer Başar

Tamer Başar[1]
Born	January 19, 1946 (age 70 years, 10 months, 3 weeks and 6 days) Istanbul, Turkey
Residence	United States
Citizenship	Turkish American
Nationality	Turkish
Fields	Optimization, Dynamic Game Theory and Robust control
Institutions	University of Illinois at Urbana Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, İstanbul Yale University, New Haven
Alma mater	Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, İstanbul
Academic advisors	Kumpati S. Narendra[2][3] A. Stephen Morse[4][5]
Known for	The development of dynamic game theory and its applications to robust control of systems with uncertainty, Decentralized systems, distributed detection and estimation Mobile and distributed computing Applications of control and game theory in economics
Notable awards	IEEE Control Systems Award (2014) Honorary Chair Professorship from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (2014) Honorary Doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa) from Boğaziçi University, Istanbul (2012) SIAM Fellow[6] (2012) Honorary Doctorate from the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan (2011) Isaacs Award of ISDG (2010) (2014) Honorary Professorship from Northeastern University, Shenyang, China (2008) Swanlund Endowed Chair at UIUC (2007) Honorary Doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa) from Doğuş University, Istanbul (2007) Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award (2006) Giorgio Quazza Medal of IFAC (2005) Outstanding Service Award of IFAC (2005) IFAC Fellow (2005) Center for Advanced Study Professorship at UIUC (2005) Hendrik Wade Bode Lecture Prize of the IEEE Control Systems Society (2004) Tau Beta Pi Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award of the College of Engineering of UIUC (2004) Elected[1] to the National Academy of Engineering (of the USA) (2000) IEEE Millennium Medal (2000) Fredric G. and Elizabeth H. Nearing Distinguished Professorship at UIUC (1998) Axelby Outstanding Paper Award (1995) Distinguished Member Award of the IEEE Control Systems Society (1993) Medal of Science of Turkey (1993) IEEE Fellow (1983)

Tamer Başar, (born January 19, 1946^[7] in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish control theorist who holds the Swanlund Endowed Chair^[8] of the Center for Advanced Study^[9][10] and Professor^[11] in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering^[12] at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Education

Tamer Başar received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Boğaziçi Üniversitesi (formerly known as Robert College^[13]) at Bebek, in İstanbul-Turkey, in 1969, and M.S., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in engineering and applied science from Yale University, in 1970, 1971 and 1972, respectively.

Academic life

He joined the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in 1981. He is the president-elect of the American Automatic Control Council for 2008-2009, and a recipient of the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award in 2006^[14] and IEEE Control Systems Award in 2014.^[15] Tamer Başar was elected as a member of National Academy of Engineering in Electronics, Communication & Information Systems Engineering and Industrial, Manufacturing & Operational Systems Engineering for the development of dynamic game theory and application to robust control of systems with uncertainty in 2000.^[1]

Honorary degrees and chairs

He has been awarded Honorary Doctor of Science degrees from:

• Honorary Chair Professorship from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 2014
• Honorary Doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa) from Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey in 2012
• Honorary Doctorate from the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan in 2011
• Honorary Professorship from Northeastern University, Shenyang, China in 2008
• Honorary Doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa) from Doğuş University, Istanbul, Turkey in 2007
• Honorary Swanlund Endowed Chair Professorship at UIUC in 2007

Research areas

His research interests include optimal, robust, and nonlinear control; large-scale systems; dynamic games; stochastic control; estimation theory; stochastic processes; and mathematical economics.^[16]

References

1. Tamer Başar was elected in 2000 as a member of National Academy of Engineering in Electronics, Communication & Information Systems Engineering and Industrial, Manufacturing & Operational Systems Engineering for development of dynamic game theory and application to robust control of systems with uncertainty.
2. Harold W. Cheel Professor of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Yale University
3. Some of the IEEE publications of Prof. Narendra
4. A. Stephen Morse was elected in 2002 as a member of National Academy of Engineering in Electronics, Communication & Information Systems Engineering and Computer Science & Engineering for his contributions to geometric control theory, adaptive control, and the stability of hybrid systems.
5. Some of the IEEE publications of Prof. Morse
6. SIAM Fellows: Class of 2012
7. Tamer Başar's biography
8. Tamer Başar's homepage,
9. Swanlund Chair
10. Center for Advanced Study
11. Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
12. Decision and Control Laboratory, The Communications Group, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
13. Currently, Robert College is an independent private high school at Arnavutköy. The Bebek campus and academic staff were turned over to the Republic of Turkey for use as Boğaziçi University in 1971.
14. "Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award". American Automatic Control Council. Retrieved February 10, 2013.
15. For seminal contributions to dynamic games, stochastic and risk-sensitive control, control of networks, and hierarchical decision making
16. Some of the IEEE publications of Prof. Başar

External links

• List of game theorists
• List of members of the National Academy of Engineering (Electronics)