Tamer Başar

Mustafa Tamer Başar^[1] (born January 19, 1946^[3]) is a control and game theorist who is the Swanlund Endowed Chair^[8] and Center for Advanced Study^[9][10] Professor^[11] of Electrical and Computer Engineering^[12] at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is also the Director of the Center for Advanced Study (since 2014).

Tamer Başar[1][2]
Born	(1946-01-19) January 19, 1946 (age 79) Istanbul, Turkey
Nationality	Turkish
Citizenship	Turkish American
Alma mater	Boğaziçi University, Istanbul(1969) B.S.[3] Yale University, New Haven (1972) Ph.D.[3]
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
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematical optimization, Dynamic game theory and Robust control
Institutions	University of Illinois at Urbana Boğaziçi University, Istanbul
Thesis	On a Class of Minimax State Estimators for Linear Systems with Unknown Forcing Functions[1]
Doctoral advisor	Max Luria Mintz[1]
Other academic advisors	Kumpati S. Narendra[4][5] A. Stephen Morse[6][7]

Education

Tamer Başar received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Boğaziçi University (formerly known as Robert College^[13]) at Bebek, in Istanbul, 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 was the founding president of the International Society of Dynamic Games during 1990–1994, the president of the IEEE Control Systems Society in 2000, and the president of the American Automatic Control Council during 2010–2011. He received the Medal of Science of Turkey in 1993, H.W. Bode Lecture Prize of the IEEE Control Systems Society in 2004, Georgia Quazza Medal of the International Federation of Automatic Control in 2005, the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award in 2006,^[14] Isaacs Award of the International Society of Dynamic Games in 2010, and IEEE Control Systems Award in 2014.^[15] He was elected as a member of National Academy of Engineering in 2000 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.^[2] He is a Fellow of IEEE, IFAC, and SIAM.

Honorary degrees and chairs

He has been awarded Honorary Doctor of Science degrees and Honorary Professorships from:

• Honorary Professorship, Shandong University, Jinan, China, 2019
• 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
• 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]

Awards

• AAA&S Member (2023)^[17]
• 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^[18] (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^[2] 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)

See also

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