Biography
Tamer Başar has been with University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign since 1981, where he is currently Swanlund Endowed Chair Emeritus; CAS Professor Emeritus of ECE; and Research Professor, CSL and ITI. Currently, he is also the Executive Director of Illinois@Singapore, an entity in CREATE, Singapore. At Illinois, he has served as Director of the Center for Advanced Study (2014-2020), Interim Dean of Engineering (2018), and Interim Director of the Beckman Institute (2008-2010). He is member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is Fellow of IEEE, IFAC, and SIAM. He has served as presidents of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), the International Society of Dynamic Games (ISDG), and the American Automatic Control Council (AACC). He has received several awards and recognitions over the years, including the highest awards of IEEE CSS (Bode Lecture Prize), IFAC (Quazza Medal), AACC Bellman Award), and ISDG (Isaacs Award), the IEEE Control Systems Technical Field Award, Wilbur Cross Medal from his alma mater Yale, and a number of international honorary doctorates and professorships. He was Editor-in-Chief of the IFAC Journal Automatica between 2004 and 2014 and is currently editor of several book series. He has contributed to fields of systems, control, communications, optimization, networks, and dynamic games, and has current research interests in stochastic teams, games, and networks; mean-field games; multi-agent systems and learning; incentivization in multi-agent systems; data-driven distributed optimization; epidemics modeling and control over networks; strategic information transmission, spread of disinformation, and deception; security and trust; energy systems; and cyber-physical systems.
