Tamer Başar

Tamer Basar
Born	January 19, 1946 (1946-01-19) (age 66) Istanbul, Turkey
Residence	United States
Citizenship	Turkish American
Fields	Control theory
Notable awards	Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award

Tamer Başar (born January 19, 1946 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish control theorist who holds the Swanlund Endowed Chair at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Tamer Başar received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Robert College, Istanbul, in 1969, and M.S., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in engineering and applied science from Yale University, in 1970, 1971 and 1972, respectively.

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.

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Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award

1979–2000	Hendrik Wade Bode (1979) Nathaniel B. Nichols (1980) Charles Stark Draper (1981) Irving Lefkowitz (1982) John V. Breakwell (1983) Richard E. Bellman (1984) Harold Chestnut (1985) John Zaborszky (1986) John C. Lozier (1987) Walter R. Evans (1988) Roger W. Brockett (1989) Arthur E. Bryson, Jr. (1990) John G. Truxal (1991) Rutherford Aris (1992) Eliahu I. Jury (1993) Jose B. Cruz, Jr. (1994) Michael Athans (1995) Elmer G. Gilbert (1996) Rudolf E. Kalman (1997) Lotfi A. Zadeh (1998) Yu-Chi Ho (1999) W. Harmon Ray (2000)

2001–present	A.V. Balakrishnan (2001) Petar V. Kokotovic (2002) Kumpati S. Narendra (2003) Harold J. Kushner (2004) Gene F. Franklin (2005) Tamer Başar (2006) Sanjoy K. Mitter (2007) Pravin Varaiya (2008) George Leitmann (2009) Dragoslav D. Šiljak (2010)