Tamer Başar

Tamer Başar
Born	January 19, 1946 (age 71 years, 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 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 A. Stephen Morse
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(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 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 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish control theorist who holds the Swanlund Endowed Chair of the Center for Advanced Study and Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Tamer Başar received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Boğaziçi Üniversitesi (formerly known as Robert College) 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.

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 and IEEE Control Systems Award in 2014.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.

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