Residence United States Name Tamer Basar | Nationality Turkish | |
Fields Optimization, Game Theory and Automatic control Institutions University of Illinois at UrbanaBogazici Universitesi, IstanbulYale University, New Haven Alma mater Bogazici Universitesi, Istanbul |
Csl emerging topics conference 2012 video tamer basar
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.
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- Csl emerging topics conference 2012 video tamer basar
- Cmu distinguished lecture series tamer ba ar
- Education
- Academic life
- Honorary degrees and chairs
- Research areas
- References

Cmu distinguished lecture series tamer ba ar
Education

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.
Academic life

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

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.
