Mustafa Tamer Başar (born January 19, 1946
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States. Established in 1867, it is the f ...

, USA. He is also the Director of the Center for Advanced Study (since 2014).

Education

Tamer Başar received a B.S. in

Electrical Engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

from

Boğaziçi University Boğaziçi University (Turkish language, Turkish: ''Boğaziçi Üniversitesi''), also known as Bosphorus University, is a Public university, public research university in Istanbul, Turkey, historically tied to a former American educational insti ...

''(formerly known as

Robert College The American Robert College of Istanbul ( or ), often abbreviated as Robert or RC, is a Selective school, highly selective, Independent school, independent, mixed-sex education, co-educational, Education in Turkey#Private schools, private Second ...

)'' at Bebek, in

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, Turkey, in 1969, and

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, M.Phil., and Ph.D. in engineering and applied science from

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, in 1970, 1971 and 1972, respectively.

Academic life

He joined the

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States. Established in 1867, it is the f ...

- 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, Isaacs Award of the International Society of Dynamic Games in 2010, and IEEE Control Systems Award in 2014. He was elected as a member of

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in 2000 in Electronics, Communication & Information Systems Engineering and Industrial, Manufacturing & Operational Systems Engineering for the development of dynamic

game theory Game theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interactions. It has applications in many fields of social science, and is used extensively in economics, logic, systems science and computer science. Initially, game theory addressed ...

and application to robust control of systems with

uncertainty Uncertainty or incertitude refers to situations involving imperfect or unknown information. It applies to predictions of future events, to physical measurements that are already made, or to the unknown, and is particularly relevant for decision ...

. He is a Fellow of IEEE, IFAC, and SIAM.

Honorary degrees and chairs

He has been awarded Honorary

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degrees and Honorary Professorships from: *Honorary Professorship, Shandong University, Jinan, China, 2019 *Honorary Chair Professorship from

Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (THU) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Constructio ...

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, China in 2014 *Honorary Doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa) from

, Turkey in 2012 *Honorary Doctorate from the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan in 2011 *Honorary Professorship from

Northeastern University Northeastern University (NU or NEU) is a private university, private research university with its main campus in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded by the Boston Young Men's Christian Association in 1898 as an all-male instit ...

Shenyang Shenyang,; ; Mandarin pronunciation: ; formerly known as Fengtian formerly known by its Manchu language, Manchu name Mukden, is a sub-provincial city in China and the list of capitals in China#Province capitals, provincial capital of Liaonin ...

, China in 2008 *Honorary Doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa) from Doğuş University, Istanbul, Turkey in 2007 *''Swanlund Endowed Chair Professorship at

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'' in 2007

Research areas

His research interests include optimal, robust, and

nonlinear control Nonlinear control theory is the area of control theory which deals with systems that are nonlinear system, nonlinear, time-variant system, time-variant, or both. Control theory is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering and mathematics that ...

; large-scale systems; dynamic games;

stochastic control Stochastic control or stochastic optimal control is a sub field of control theory that deals with the existence of uncertainty either in observations or in the noise that drives the evolution of the system. The system designer assumes, in a Bayesi ...

;

estimation theory Estimation theory is a branch of statistics that deals with estimating the values of Statistical parameter, parameters based on measured empirical data that has a random component. The parameters describe an underlying physical setting in such ...

;

stochastic processes In probability theory and related fields, a stochastic () or random process is a mathematical object usually defined as a family of random variables in a probability space, where the index of the family often has the interpretation of time. Stoc ...

; and

mathematical economics Mathematical economics is the application of Mathematics, mathematical methods to represent theories and analyze problems in economics. Often, these Applied mathematics#Economics, applied methods are beyond simple geometry, and may include diff ...

Awards

* AAA&S Member (2023) * IEEE Control Systems Award (2014) *Honorary Chair Professorship from

, China (2014) *Honorary Doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa) from

(2012) *

SIAM Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. With a population of almost 66 million, it spa ...

FellowSIAM Fellows: Class of 2012
/ref> (2012) *Honorary Doctorate from the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan (2011) *Isaacs Award of ISDG (2010, 2014) *Honorary Professorship from

, China (2008) * Swanlund Endowed Chair at

(2007) *Honorary Doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa) from Doğuş University,

(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

(2005) * Hendrik Wade Bode Lecture Prize of the IEEE Control Systems Society (2004) *

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Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award of the College of Engineering of UIUC (2004) *Elected to the

(of the USA) (2000) *

IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) organization, 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and other related disciplines. The IEEE ...

Millennium Medal (2000) *Fredric G. and Elizabeth H. Nearing Distinguished Professorship at

(1998) *Axelby Outstanding Paper Award (1995) *Distinguished Member Award of the IEEE Control Systems Society (1993) *Medal of Science of Turkey (1993) *

IEEE Fellow , the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and ot ...

(1983)

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