Resume of Tamer Başar

Birth:

January 19, 1946; Istanbul, Turkey

Current Positions:

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

Office Address:

Decision and Control Laboratory
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: tbasar@control.csl.uiuc.edu
  
• WWW Home Page: http://black.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:

• 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), since 1972
• Mathematical Reviews (Michigan, USA), since 1974
• 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:
  • Second International Conference on Game Theory and Management (GTM 2008), St. Petersburg, Russia, June 26-27, 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:
  • 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:
  • 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

Books : 5; Monographs/Lecture Notes : 4; Edited Volumes : 7; Chapters in Edited Volumes : 53; Journal Articles : 149; Papers in Conference Proceedings : 254; Book Reviews : 35