Resume of Tamer Başar

Birth:

January 19, 1946; Istanbul, Turkey

Current Positions:

Interim Director
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

Swanlund Endowed Chair
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

CAS Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Center for Advanced Study

Research Professor, Coordinated Science Laboratory

Research Professor, Information Trust Institute

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Beckman Institute Office Address:

1301 Beckman Institute
University of Illinois
405 North Mathews Avenue
Urbana, Illinois 61801, U.S.A.

Telephone: 217 244-8373; Fax: 217 244-0987; Cellular: 217 979-1283
E-mail: basar1@beckman.illinois.edu
WWW Home Page: http://decision.csl.uiuc.edu/~tbasar

Research Office Address:

Decision and Control Laboratory
356 Coordinated Science Laboratory
University of Illinois
1308 West Main Street
Urbana, Illinois 61801-2307 U.S.A.

Telephone: 217 333-3607; Fax (secure): 217 265-0997; Cellular: 217 493-8741
Telephone (secretary): 217 333-0282; Fax (secretary): 217 244-1653
E-mail: basar1@illinois.edu
WWW Home Page: http://decision.csl.uiuc.edu/~tbasar

Degrees:

Habilitation in Systems Sciences, Technical University of Istanbul, 1976
Ph.D. in Engineering and Applied Science, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1972
M. Phil in Engineering and Applied Science, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1971
M.S. in Engineering and Applied Science, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1970
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Robert College (Bogaziçi University), Istanbul, 1969

Earlier Positions and Sabbatical Leaves:

Visiting Senior Research Scientist, INRIA, Centre de Sophia Antipolis, France, sabbatical years 1994-1995 and 1987-1988
Director of Decision and Control Laboratory, University of Illinois, 1983-1987 and 1996-2001
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Research Associate Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, 1981-1983
Senior Research Scientist, Department of Applied Mathematics, Marmara Research Institute, Gebze, Kocaeli, Turkey, 1975-1980
Adjunct Associate Professor, Mathematics Department, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1976-1980
Visiting Scholar, Department of Applied Mathematics, Twente University of Technology, Enschede, The Netherlands, 1978-1979
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Bogaziçi University, 1974-1976
Research Scientist, Marmara Research Institute, 1973-1975
Research Fellow, Division of Engineering and Applied Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972-1973

Awards, Honors and Recognitions:

Honorary Professorship, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, 2008
Swanlund Endowed Chair, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007
Honorary Doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa), Doguş University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2007
Başarfest, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, September 30, 2006
Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, 2006, American Automatic Control Council (AACC)
Center for Advanced Study Professorship, University of Illinois, 2005
Giorgio Quazza Medal, 2005, International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
Outstanding Service Award, 2005, IFAC
IFAC Fellow, 2005
Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize for 2004, IEEE Control Systems Society
Tau Beta Pi Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award for 2004, College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Honorary Chairman, Mediterranean Control Conference, June 2004
Editor-in-Chief of the IFAC Journal Automatica, 2004-
The S.S. Penner Distinguished Lecturer in the Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering Sciences, University of California, San Diego, 2003
Honorary Editor, Applied and Computational Mathematics, 2002-
Election to the National Academy of Engineering of the United States of America, 2000
IEEE Millennium Medal, 2000
Symbol Technologies Lecturer, Department of Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York, 2000
Zaborszky Lecturer for 1999, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 1999
Distinguished Lecturer for 1999, Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 1999
Endowed Distinguished Professorship (Fredric G. and Elizabeth H. Nearing Endowed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering), University of Illinois, 1998
George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award (of IEEE CSS), 1995
Medal of Science (Turkey), 1993
Distinguished Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society, 1993
Associate Member of the Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois, 1993-1994
Fellow of IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), for "contributions to multiperson decision making and to deterministic and stochastic dynamic games," 1983
Sedat Simavi Foundation Award in Mathematical Sciences, 1979
TUBITAK (Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey) Young Scientist Award in Applied Mathematics, 1976

Membership:

National Academy of Engineering (of the USA), member
IEEE, Fellow
European Academy of Sciences, Member
SIAM, member
Game Theory Society, charter member
American Mathematical Society, member
International Society of Dynamic Games, member
Society for Economic Dynamics and Control, past member
SIGMA XI, past member
Institute of Management Sciences, past member
New York Academy of Sciences, past member
American Association for the Advancement of Science, past member

Listed in:

Who's Who in the Midwest (since 1984)
Who's Who in America (since 1983)
Who's Who in Frontiers of Science and Technology (since 1985)
The International Directory of Distinguished Leadership, ABI Inc. (since 1986)
Personalities of the Americas (since 1987)
Who's Who in Technology Today (since 1986)
The Directory of Distinguished Americans (since 1986)
Two Thousand Notable Americans (since 1986)
Who's Who in Turkey (since 1987)
Who's Who in Engineering (since 1990)

Major Professional Activities:

American Automatic Control Council, President-Elect, 2008-2009
IEEE Expert Now Editorial Board, Chair, 2007, 2008
National Academy of Engineering, Section 7 Search Committee Member, 2006, 2007, 2008
IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB), Member, 2005, 2006
IEEE EAB Society Outreach Committee, Chair, 2005, 2006
National Research Council, Decadal Survey of Civil Aeronautics, Panel Member, 2005-2006
National Academy of Engineering, Electronics Peer Review Committee Member, 2002-2004
Program Co-Chair, WiOpt'04: Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks, Cambridge, UK, March 2004
Chairman, Automatica (IFAC) Editorial Board, 2004-
IEEE Control Systems Society, President, 2000; Past President, 2001
IEEE Publications Board, Member, 1998-2000
IEEE Committee on Awards and Recognition, Member, 1998
Co-chairman, 36th Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, September 23 - 25, 1998
IEEE Control Systems Society, Member of the Board of Governors, 1985-1987, 1991, 1996-1998
IEEE Control Systems Society, Vice President for Publications, 1997; Vice President for Finance, 1998; President-Elect, 1999
Vice-Chairman, Automatica (IFAC) Editorial Board, 1993-2003
Chairman, Bellman Heritage Award Selection Subcommittee of American Automatic Control Council, 1997
Chairman of the Steering Committee, Mac Van Valkenburg Memorial Symposium, Urbana, IL, November 15, 1997
Co-chairman, 35th Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, September 29 - October 1, 1997.
Co-organizer, ISDG Workshop on Dynamic Games, Sils-Maria, Switzerland, August 21-22, 1997
Co-organizer, Workshop on Advances in Control and its Applications, University of Illinois, Urbana, May 21, 1994
Co-organizer, Workshop on Robust Controller Designs and Differential Games, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 28-29, 1993
President, International Society of Dynamic Games, 1990-1992, 1992-1994
IEEE Control Systems Society, Fellow Evaluation Committee Chairman, 1991, 1992, 1993
General Chairman, 31st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Tucson, AZ, December 1992
IEEE Control Systems Society, Axelby Outstanding Paper Award Committee Chairman, 1989, 1990
Program Committee Chairman, 28th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Tampa, Florida, December 1989
Co-chairman, 3rd International Symposium on Differential Games and Applications, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France, June 16-17, 1988
Co-chairman, IEEE Workshop on Decentralized and Distributed Control, Columbus, Ohio, September 14-15, 1987
IEEE Control Systems Society, Chairman of the Theory Committee, 1984-1987
Co-chairman, International Program Committee, 1986 IFAC Workshop on Modelling, Decision and Games with Applications to Social Phenomena, China, August 11-15, 1986
Co-chairman, 21st and 22nd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, October 5-7, 1983; October 3-5, 1984
Chairman and Organizer, 2nd Istanbul Workshop on Large Scale Systems, Istanbul, Turkey, June 22-26, 1984
Publication Chairman, 4th IFAC/IFORS Conference on Modeling and Control of National Economies, Washington, DC, June 17-19, 1983
IEEE Control Systems Society, Member of the Administrative Committee 1983
IEEE Control Systems Society, Chairman of the Technical Committee on "Large Scale Systems and Differential Games" 1982, 1983
Also, member of Program Committees of numerous IEEE and IFAC Conferences and Symposia

Editorship:

Automatica
- Editor-in-Chief (2004 - )
- Deputy Editor-in-Chief (1993-2003 )
- Editor (1992-2003)
- Associate Editor (1977-1991)
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Expert Now (2007 - )
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
- Guest Co-Editor, Special Issue on Systems and Control Methods for Communication Networks (2000 - 2002)
- Editor for TN&C (July 1992 - August 1994)
- Associate Editor at Large (1990 - 1993)
- Associate Editor (1982-1983)
Wireless Networks, Subject Editor (2003 - )
Applied and Computational Mathematics, Honorary Editor (2002 - )
ARI, Springer Verlag, Subject Editor (1997 - 2002)
Systems and Control Letters, Associate Editor (1995 - )
Annals of the International Society of Dynamic Games, Birkhäuser, Series Editor (1992 - )
Systems & Control: Foundations and Applications, Birkhäuser, Series Editor (2001 - )
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Associate Editor (1983 - 2001)
Information and Decision Technologies (formerly Large Scale Systems), Associate Editor (1979-1991)
Guest Associate Editor of a special joint issue of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Circuits and Systems, and Systems, Man and Cybernetics, on Large Scale Systems, appeared in June/July 1983

On the Review Board of:

Zentralblatt für Mathematik (Berlin, Germany), 1972 - 2002
Mathematical Reviews (Michigan, USA), 1974 - 2004
Applied Mechanics Reviews (Texas, USA), since 1976

On the Advisory Board of:

Center for Systems and Control of Xiamen University, China, since 2006
CASY (Center for Research on Complex Automated Systems "Giuseppe Evangelisti") of the University of Bologna, Italy, since 2003
International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems (published by the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers), since 2003
Game Theory and Applications (published by Russian Academy of Sciences), since 1993
Elektrik (published by Doga, in Ankara, Turkey), since 1992
Bilkent University Lecture Notes Series (Springer-Verlag), since 1989

Other:

Editor of the IEEE Press Volume "Control Theory: Twenty-Five Seminal Papers (1932-1981)" (appeared in January 2001)

Major invitations since 2000:

Plenary/Semi-Plenary Speaker at:
- 10th International Conference on Automation Technology (Automation 2009), Tainan, Taiwan, June 27-28, 2009 (Plenary)
- 2009 (21st) Chinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC 2009), Guilin (Guangxi), China, June 17-19, 2009 (Plenary)
- Second International Conference on Game Theory and Management (GTM 2008), St. Petersburg, Russia, June 26-27, 2008 (Plenary)
- Second International Conference on Control and Optimization with Industrial Applications (COIA-2008), Baku, Azerbaijan, June 2-4, 2008 (Plenary)
- Dynamic Games in Management Science, Montreal, Canada, May 2-3, 2008 (Plenary)
- 2008 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC 2008), Sanya, China, April 6-8, 2008 (Plenary)
- IFAC Symposium on Computational Economics and Financial and Industrial Systems (CEFIS'07), Istanbul, Turkey, October 9-11, 2007 (Plenary)
- Fourth International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2007), Nanjing, China, June 3-7, 2007 (Plenary)
- 1st International Conference on Computer Science and Education (ICCSE 2006), Xiamen, China, July 27-29, 2006 (Plenary)
- 6th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA06), Dalian, China, June 21-23, 2006 (Plenary)
- Robust Control Workshop 2005, Delft, the Netherlands, June 29-July 1, 2005 (Plenary)
- International Seminar on Control Theory and Theory of Generalized Solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi Equations (CGS'2005), Ekaterinburg, Russia, June 22-26, 2005 (Plenary)
- First International Conference on Control and Optimization with Industrial Applications (COIA-2005), Baku, Azerbaijan, May 22-25, 2005 (Plenary)
- 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Nassau, The Bahamas, December 14-17, 2004 (Plenary, Bode Lecture)
- 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii, December 9-12, 2003 (Plenary)
- 2003 IEEE Conference on Control Applications, Istanbul, Turkey, June 23-25, 2003 (Plenary)
- 4th IFAC Symposium on Robust Control, Milan, Italy, June 25-27, 2003 (Plenary)
- 4th International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA'03), Montreal, Canada, June 10-12, 2003 (Plenary)
- Workshop Prixnet, Rennes, France, March 11-12, 2003 (Plenary)
- TOK'02, ODTU, Ankara, on September 11, 2002 (Plenary)
- International Symposium on Economic Dynamics and Control, Klagenfurt, Austria, September 6-8, 2001 (Plenary)
- European Control Conference, Porto, Portugal, September 4-7, 2001 (Semi-Plenary)
- The XIVth Italian Meeting on Game Theory and Applications, Ischia, Italy, July 11-14, 2001 (Plenary)
- 39th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Sydney, Australia, December 12-15, 2000 (Plenary Panel, Chair)
- The Ohio State University Workshop on Systems and Control, Columbus, Ohio, April 1, 2000 (Plenary)
Invited Speaker at:
- Workshop on "Control and Games", Delft, Netherlands, November 13-14, 2008.
- Symposium on "Foundations of Wireless Networks and Beyond", University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, October 16-17, 2008.
- Workshop on the "Frontiers in Game Theory and Networked Control Systems", MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 10-12, 2008.
- Workshop on "Analysis and Design of Nonlinear Control Systems", London, England, May 15-16, 2008.
- CASY Workshop on "Advances in Control Theory and Applications", Bertinoro, Italy, May 22-26, 2006.
- Workshop on Learning and Information in Games and Control, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, March 22-23, 2006.
- System and Control Theory Workshop, Gebze Technology Institute, Gebze, Kocaeli, Turkey, September 7-9, 2005
- Symposium on Advances in Systems and Control, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 23-24, 2001
- The Eleventh Yale Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Systems, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, June 4-6, 2001
- PearsonFest, Rice University, Houston, Texas, March 9, 2001
- Information Technology Workshop, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, March 2, 2001
- Workshop on New Directions in Control, Hong-Kong, June 30-July 2, 1999
Distinguished Lectureships and Long-Term Visits:
- Boeing-UIUC Inaugural Lecture, Boeing, Seattle, Washington, June 10, 2008
- Graduate Colloquim Speaker (Public Lecture), Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, October 20, 2005
- Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Featured Tutorial Speaker, Rome, New York, August 9-10, 2005
- ECE Distinguished Lecturer, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, November 25, 2003
- The S.S. Penner Distinguished Lecturer in the Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering Sciences, University of California, San Diego, November 21, 2003
- INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France, February 27 - March 29, 2003
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong, January 12 - February 1, 2003
- National University of Singapore, Singapore, January 5-12, 2003
- University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy, March 20 - April 11, 2001
- Symbol Technologies Lecturer, Department of Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York, October 12, 2000
- Eminent Speaker of Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, May 4, 2000
- Zaborszky Lecturer for 1999, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, May 3-5, 1999.
- Distinguished Lecturer for 1999, Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, February 17-19, 1999.

Current research interests

Information technology research
Control over wired and wireless networks
Usage-limited sensing, estimation, and control
Security in computer networks; intrusion detection and response
Robust identification and control
Dynamic games and stochastic teams
Nonlinear and adaptive robust control
Decentralized and distributed detection and estimation
Routing, pricing, and congestion control
Modeling and control of communication networks
Mobile and distributed computing
Incentive mechanisms through pricing
Neural networks-based identification and control
Applications of control and game theory in economics
Organizational design and coordination

Publications :

Books : 5; Monographs/Lecture Notes : 4; Edited Volumes : 7; Chapters in Edited Volumes : 54 Journal Articles : 152; Papers in Conference Proceedings : 263; Book Reviews : 35

Last modified: September 30, 2008