Faculty
M Tamer Başar
Swanlund Endowed Chair
Professor
356 Coordinated Science Lab, MC-228
1308 W. Main St.
Urbana, Illinois 61801
(217) 333-3607
PhD Engineering and Applied Mathematics Yale University 1972
Research Statement:
My current research interests concern:
o Formulation of security and trust in communication and computer networks within control- and game-theoretic frameworks, addressing issues like intrusion detection and response, malware filtering, trust propagation and evolution, and resource allocation.
o Remote control over networks under rate constraints, where the underlying issues are quantization and handling of packet losses and the presence noise in forward and reverse channels.
o Optimal control and sensing over networks when the number of transmissions is restricted a priori.
o Pricing, optimum resource allocation, and mechanism design in networks with multiple user and service classes.
o Consensus in computation under bit constraints on exchange of information among different computing stations, and with asyncronuous communication.
o Control of packets in networks for improved performance and particularly with regard to TCP and router algorithms.
Research Interests:
- Stochastic Dynamic Games and Teams; Nonclassical Information Patterns
- Minimax (H-infinity optimal) Hierarchical Controllers for Linear and Nonlinear Systems; Performance Robustness Analysis
- Nonlinear and Distributed Control
- Decentralized Detection and Estimation
- Large Scale Systems Optimization via Singular and Regular Perturbations Analysis
- Asynchronous Computation in Distributed and Economic Systems
- Organizational Design, Incentives, and Coordination
- Neural Networks-Based Identification and Control
- Flow Control and Routing in Communication Networks
- Pricing Policies in Networks
- Intrusion Detection in Communication and Computer Networks
- Control over Heterogeneous Networks
- Usage-limited sensing, estimation, and control
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Honors, Recognition, and Outstanding Achievements
- Honorary Professorship, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China (April 2008)
- President-Elect, American Automatic Control Council, 2008-2009 (January 2008)
- Honorary Doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa), Dogus University, Istanbul, Turkey (October 2007)
- Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Expert Now, 2007- (2007)
- Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award of the American Automatic Control Council (highest award given by AACC) (June 2006)
- IFAC Outstanding Service Award (given triennially) (July 2005)
- Professorship in the Center for Advanced Study (elected 2005)
- IFAC Fellow (only 32 worldwide) (July 2005)
- Engineering Council Award for Excellence in Advising, UIUC, 2004-2005, 2005-2006.
- Giorgio Quazza Medal, International Federation of Automatic Control (highest award of IFAC, given every three years). (July 2005)
- Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize for 2004, IEEE Control Systems Society (highest award of IEEE Control Systems Society). (December 2004)
- Tau Beta Pi Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award for 2004, College of Engineering, UIUC.
- 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 and Mechanical Engineering Sciences, University of California, San Diego, 2003
- Honorary Editor, Applied and Computational Mathematics, 2002-
- Member of the European Academy of Sciences, 2002.
- Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 2000.
- IEEE Millennium Medal, 2000.
- President, IEEE Control Systems Society, 2000.
- 2000 Symbol Technologies Lecturer, Polytechnic University, New York.
- 1999 Zaborszky Distinguished Lecturer, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
- 1999 Distinguished Speaker of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University.
- Fredric G. and Elizabeth H. Nearing Professor, 1998.
- George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Control Systems Society, December 1995 (for best paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control during the two-year period 1993-1995).
- Associate Member of the Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois, 1993.
- Distinguished Member Award of the IEEE Control Systems Society, December 1993.
- Science Medal (Turkey), September 1993.
- Fellow of 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.
Honors, Recognition, and Outstanding Achievements for Teaching
- Accenture Multi-year Faculty Achievement Award, CoE, UIUC, April 2006, April 2007.
- Incomplete List for Spring 1990, Spring 1992, Fall 1995, Spring 1996, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007