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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
USA
2026

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
105
Citations
43085
World Ranking
140
National Ranking
68

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2014 - IEEE Control Systems Award “For seminal contributions to dynamic games, stochastic and risk-sensitive control, control of networks, and hierarchical decision making.”
  • 2012 - SIAM Fellow For contributions to dynamic game theory and application to robust control of systems with uncertainty.
  • 2006 - Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award
  • 2005 - Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
  • 2000 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For development of dynamic game theory and application to robust control of systems with uncertainty.
  • 1983 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to multiperson decision making and deterministic and stochastic dynamic game theory.

Overview

Tamer Basar is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Computer Science and Engineering, with a strong emphasis on Management Science and Operations Research, Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence, Control and Systems Engineering, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

The scientist's work addresses a variety of main topics, such as:

  • Game Theory and Applications
  • Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
  • Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems
  • Advanced Bandit Algorithms Research
  • Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
  • Economic theories and models
  • Advanced Control Systems Optimization

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Tamer Basar include:

  • "Modeling, estimation, and analysis of epidemics over networks: An overview" (2020) published in Annual Reviews in Control
  • "Global Convergence of Policy Gradient Methods to (Almost) Locally Optimal Policies" (2020) published in SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization
  • "Communication-Efficient Distributed Learning: An Overview" (2023) published in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
  • "Markov-Nash equilibria in mean-field games with discounted cost" (2020) published in ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology (The Electrochemical Society)
  • "Fixed-Time Nash Equilibrium Seeking in Time-Varying Networks" (2022) published in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Frequent publication venues for Tamer Basar include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • Automatica
  • IFAC-PapersOnLine
  • 2021 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)

Tamer Basar has collaborated extensively with other researchers, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Serdar Yüksel
  • Kaiqing Zhang
  • Melih Baştopçu
  • Muhammad Aneeq uz Zaman
  • Shubham Aggarwal

The scientist has also contributed to book publications, notably the title Stochastic Teams, Games, and Control under Information Constraints, published in 2024 under Systems & Control.

Throughout their career, Tamer Basar has received several awards, such as:

  • IEEE Control Systems Award (2014) for contributions in dynamic games, stochastic and risk-sensitive control, control of networks, and hierarchical decision making
  • SIAM Fellow (2012) for work in dynamic game theory and robust control of systems with uncertainty
  • Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award (2006)
  • Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) (2005)
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2000) recognizing development of dynamic game theory and its applications
  • IEEE Fellow (1983) for contributions to multiperson decision making and dynamic game theory

Best Publications

  • H∞-0ptimal Control and Related Minimax Design Problems: A Dynamic Game Approach

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  • Coalitional game theory for communication networks

    W. Saad;Zhu Han;M. Debbah;A. Hjorungnes

  • H-Optimal Control and Related Minimax Design Problems

    Tamer Başar;Pierre Bernhard

  • Game-Theoretic Methods for the Smart Grid: An Overview of Microgrid Systems, Demand-Side Management, and Smart Grid Communications

    W. Saad;Zhu Han;H. V. Poor;T. Basar

  • CDMA uplink power control as a noncooperative game

    Tansu Alpcan;Tamer Başar;R. Srikant;Eitan Altman

  • Coalitional Game Theory for Communication Networks: A Tutorial

    Walid Saad;Zhu Han;Merouane Debbah;Are Hjørungnes

  • Optimal control of LTI systems over unreliable communication links

    Orhan C. Imer;Serdar Yüksel;Tamer Başar

  • TCP-Illinois: A loss- and delay-based congestion control algorithm for high-speed networks

    Shao Liu;Tamer Başar;R. Srikant

  • Backstepping Controller Design for Nonlinear Stochastic Systems Under a Risk-Sensitive Cost Criterion

    Zigang Pan;Zigang Pan;Tamer Basar

  • Game-Theoretic Methods for Robustness, Security, and Resilience of Cyberphysical Control Systems: Games-in-Games Principle for Optimal Cross-Layer Resilient Control Systems

    Quanyan Zhu;Tamer Basar

  • A Game-Theoretic Approach to Energy Trading in the Smart Grid

    Yunpeng Wang;Walid Saad;Zhu Han;H. Vincent Poor

  • Nash Equilibrium Seeking in Noncooperative Games

    P. Frihauf;M. Krstic;T. Basar

  • Fully decentralized multi-agent reinforcement learning with networked agents

    Kaiqing Zhang;Zhuoran Yang;Han Liu;Tong Zhang

  • Adaptive controller design for tracking and disturbance attenuation in parametric strict-feedback nonlinear systems

    Zigang Pan;T. Basar

  • Optimal estimation with limited measurements

    Orhan C. Imer;Tamer Basar

  • A game theoretic approach to decision and analysis in network intrusion detection

    T. Alpcan;T. Basar

  • Competitive routing in networks with polynomial costs

    E. Altman;T. Basar;T. Jimenez;T. Jimenez;N. Shimkin

  • Revenue-maximizing pricing and capacity expansion in a many-users regime

    T. Basar;R. Srikant

  • Correlated jamming on MIMO Gaussian fading channels

    A. Kashyap;T. Basar;R. Srikant

  • Stochastic Networked Control Systems: Stabilization and Optimization under Information Constraints

    Serdar Yksel;Tamer Basar

  • H∞-Optimal Control and Related

    Tamer Başar;Pierre Bernhard

Frequent Co-Authors

Tansu Alpcan
Tansu Alpcan University of Melbourne
Zhu Han
Zhu Han University of Houston
Walid Saad
Walid Saad Virginia Tech
Dusit Niyato
Dusit Niyato Nanyang Technological University
Merouane Debbah
Merouane Debbah Khalifa University
Brian D. O. Anderson
Brian D. O. Anderson Australian National University
Naira Hovakimyan
Naira Hovakimyan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
H. Vincent Poor
H. Vincent Poor Princeton University
Karl Henrik Johansson
Karl Henrik Johansson Royal Institute of Technology
Hideaki Ishii
Hideaki Ishii Tokyo Institute of Technology

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