Resume of Tamer Başar

Birth:

January 19, 1946; Istanbul, Turkey

Current Affiliations:

Swanlund Endowed Chair Emeritus
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

CAS Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Professor, Coordinated Science Laboratory

Research Professor, Information Trust Institute

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Research Office Address:

Decision and Control Laboratory
356 Coordinated Science Laboratory
University of Illinois
1308 West Main Street
Urbana, Illinois 61801-2307 U.S.A.

• Research Office Telephone (CSL): 217 333-3607; Cellular: 217 979-1283
  
• Research Office Secretary Telephone: 217 300-1910
  
• E-mail: basar1@illinois.edu
  
• WWW Home Page: http://tamerbasar.csl.illinois.edu/

Degrees:

• Habilitation in Systems Sciences, Technical University of Istanbul, 1976
• Ph.D. in Engineering and Applied Science, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1972
• M. Phil in Engineering and Applied Science, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1971
• M.S. in Engineering and Applied Science, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1970
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Robert College (Bogaziçi University), Istanbul, 1969

Earlier Positions and Sabbatical Leaves:

• Executive Director, Illinois Advanced Research Center at Singapore Ltd. (Illinois ARCS) (formerly, until September 2023, Illinois at Singapore Pte. Ltd), July 2021-December 2023
• Director, Center for Advanced Study , University of Illinois, August 2014-December 2020
• Interim Dean, College of Engineering, University of Illinois, January 2018-November 2018
• Interim Director of Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois, 2008-2010
• Swanlund Endowed Chair, University of Illinois, 2007-2020
• Center for Advanced Study Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, 2005-2020
• Fredric G. and Elizabeth H. Nearing Endowed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering), University of Illinois, 1998-2007
• Visiting Senior Research Scientist, INRIA, Centre de Sophia Antipolis, France, sabbatical years 1994-1995 and 1987-1988
• Director of Decision and Control Laboratory, University of Illinois, 1983-1987 and 1996-2001
• Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, 1983-2020
• Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Research Associate Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, 1981-1983
• Senior Research Scientist, Department of Applied Mathematics, Marmara Research Institute, Gebze, Kocaeli, Turkey, 1975-1980
• Adjunct Associate Professor, Mathematics Department, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1976-1980
• Visiting Scholar, Department of Applied Mathematics, Twente University of Technology, Enschede, The Netherlands, 1978-1979
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Bogaziçi University, 1974-1976
• Research Scientist, Marmara Research Institute, 1973-1975
• Research Fellow, Division of Engineering and Applied Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972-1973

Awards, Honors and Recognitions:

• O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award (Theory), American Automatic Control Council (AACC), 2024
• Annual Wook Hyun Kwon Lecturer, Seoul National University, Korea, 2023
• Election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2023
• Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 2021
• Honorary Doctorate, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 2019
• Honorary Professorship, Shandong University, Jinan, China, 2019
• IFAC Advisor, 2017 (indefinite term)
• IEEE Control Systems (Technical Field) Award, 2014
• Honorary Chair Professorship, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2014
• Honorary Doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa), Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2012
• SIAM Fellow, 2012
• Honorary Doctorate, National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, 2011
• Isaacs Award, International Society of Dynamic Games, 2010
• Honorary Professorship, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, 2008
• Swanlund Endowed Chair, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007
• Honorary Doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa), Doguş University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2007
• Başarfest, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, September 30, 2006
• Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, 2006, American Automatic Control Council (AACC)
• Center for Advanced Study Professorship, University of Illinois, 2005
• Giorgio Quazza Medal, 2005, International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
• Outstanding Service Award, 2005, IFAC
• IFAC Fellow, 2005
• Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize for 2004, IEEE Control Systems Society
• Tau Beta Pi Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award for 2004, College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Honorary Chairman, Mediterranean Control Conference, June 2004
• Editor-in-Chief of the IFAC Journal Automatica, 2004-2014
• The S.S. Penner Distinguished Lecturer in the Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering Sciences, University of California, San Diego, 2003
• Honorary Editor, Applied and Computational Mathematics, 2002-
• Election to the National Academy of Engineering of the United States of America, 2000
• IEEE Millennium Medal, 2000
• Symbol Technologies Lecturer, Department of Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York, 2000
• Zaborszky Lecturer for 1999, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 1999
• Distinguished Lecturer for 1999, Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 1999
• Endowed Distinguished Professorship (Fredric G. and Elizabeth H. Nearing Endowed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering), University of Illinois, 1998
• George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award (of IEEE CSS), 1995
• Medal of Science (Turkey), 1993
• Distinguished Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society, 1993
• Associate Member of the Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois, 1993-1994
• Fellow of IEEE (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

Membership:

• American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow
• National Academy of Engineering (of the USA), member
• IEEE, Fellow
• SIAM, Fellow
• Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), Fellow
• Game Theory Society, charter member
• International Society of Dynamic Games, member
• American Mathematical Society, past member
• Society for Economic Dynamics and Control, past member
• SIGMA XI, past member
• Institute of Management Sciences, past member
• New York Academy of Sciences, past member
• American Association for the Advancement of Science, past member

Listed in:

• Who's Who in the Midwest (since 1984)
• Who's Who in America (since 1983)
• Who's Who in Frontiers of Science and Technology (since 1985)
• The International Directory of Distinguished Leadership, ABI Inc. (since 1986)
• Personalities of the Americas (since 1987)
• Who's Who in Technology Today (since 1986)
• The Directory of Distinguished Americans (since 1986)
• Two Thousand Notable Americans (since 1986)
• Who's Who in Turkey (since 1987)
• Who's Who in Engineering (since 1990)

Major Professional Activities:

• Vice Chair (elected), NAE Section 7 (Electronics, Communication and Information Systems Engineering), 2023-2025 (Chair, 2025-2027)
• Chair, IEEE Control Systems (Field) Award Selection Committee, 2021-2022, 2022-2023
• Chair, IFAC Quazza Medal Selection Committee, 2020-2023, 2023-2026
• Chair, IFAC Publications Managing Board, 2017-2020, 2020-2023
• Member, NAE Nominating Committee, 2022-2023
• Member, IEEE Control Systems (Field) Award Selection Committee, 2020-2021, 2023-2024
• Chair, Awards Committee, American Automatic Control Council, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2024-25
• Vice-Chair, NetGCooP (International Conference on Network Games, Control and Optimization), Corsica, France, 25-27 March 2020.
• General Co-Chair, GameSec (Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security), Seattle, WA, 29-31 October 2018.
• Program Co-Chair, WiOpt'18: Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks, Shanghai, China, 7-11 May 2018
• Chair, IFAC Publications Committee, 2014-2017
• IFAC Executive Board Member, 2014-2017
• American Automatic Control Council, Past President, 2012-2013; President, 2010-2011; President-Elect, 2008-2009
• IFAC Council Member, 2011-2014
• IEEE Control Systems Society, Nominating Committee, 2010-2012
• IFAC Quazza Medal Selection Committee, Chair, 2010-2011; Member, 2012-2013
• IEEE Expert Now Editorial Board, Founding Chair, 2007-2009; Past Chair, 2010-2012
• Co-Chair, 51st and 50th Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, October 2-4, 2013 and October 1-5, 2012
• Co-General Chair, HiCoNS (1st International Conference on High Confidence Networked Systems), Beijing, China, April 17-18, 2012
• General Chair, NetGCooP (International Conference on Network Games, Control and Optimization), Paris, France, October 12-14, 2011
• Steering Board, GameSec (Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security), 2010 -
• General Chair, GameNets (International Conference on Game Theory for Networks), Istanbul, Turkey, May 20-22, 2009
• National Academy of Engineering, Section 7 Search Committee Member, 2006, 2007, 2008
• IEEE Publication Services and Products Board (PSPB), Member, 2009
• IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB), Member, 2005, 2006, 2009
• IEEE EAB Society Outreach Committee, Chair, 2005, 2006
• National Research Council, Decadal Survey of Civil Aeronautics, Panel Member, 2005-2006
• National Academy of Engineering, Electronics Peer Review Committee Member, 2002-2004
• Program Co-Chair, WiOpt'04: Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks, Cambridge, UK, March 2004
• Chairman, Automatica (IFAC) Editorial Board, 2004- 2014
• Steering Board, WiOpt (Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks), 2003 -
• IEEE Control Systems Society, President, 2000; Past President, 2001
• IEEE Publications Board, Member, 1998-2000
• IEEE Committee on Awards and Recognition, Member, 1998
• Co-Chairman, 36th Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, September 23 - 25, 1998
• IEEE Control Systems Society, Member of the Board of Governors, 1985-1987, 1991, 1996-1998
• IEEE Control Systems Society, Vice President for Publications, 1997; Vice President for Finance, 1998; President-Elect, 1999
• Vice-Chairman, Automatica (IFAC) Editorial Board, 1993-2003
• Chairman, Bellman Heritage Award Selection Subcommittee of American Automatic Control Council, 1997
• Chairman of the Steering Committee, Mac Van Valkenburg Memorial Symposium, Urbana, IL, November 15, 1997
• Co-chairman, 35th Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, September 29 - October 1, 1997.
• Co-organizer, ISDG Workshop on Dynamic Games, Sils-Maria, Switzerland, August 21-22, 1997
• Co-organizer, Workshop on Advances in Control and its Applications, University of Illinois, Urbana, May 21, 1994
• Co-organizer, Workshop on Robust Controller Designs and Differential Games, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 28-29, 1993
• President, International Society of Dynamic Games, 1990-1992, 1992-1994
• IEEE Control Systems Society, Fellow Evaluation Committee Chairman, 1991, 1992, 1993
• General Chairman, 31st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Tucson, AZ, December 1992
• IEEE Control Systems Society, Axelby Outstanding Paper Award Committee Chairman, 1989, 1990
• Program Committee Chairman, 28th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Tampa, Florida, December 1989
• Co-Chairman, 3rd International Symposium on Differential Games and Applications, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France, June 16-17, 1988
• Co-Chairman, IEEE Workshop on Decentralized and Distributed Control, Columbus, Ohio, September 14-15, 1987
• IEEE Control Systems Society, Chairman of the Theory Committee, 1984-1987
• Co-Chairman, International Program Committee, 1986 IFAC Workshop on Modelling, Decision and Games with Applications to Social Phenomena, China, August 11-15, 1986
• Co-chairman, 21st and 22nd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, October 5-7, 1983; October 3-5, 1984
• Chairman and Organizer, 2nd Istanbul Workshop on Large Scale Systems, Istanbul, Turkey, June 22-26, 1984
• Publication Chairman, 4th IFAC/IFORS Conference on Modeling and Control of National Economies, Washington, DC, June 17-19, 1983
• IEEE Control Systems Society, Member of the Administrative Committee 1983
• IEEE Control Systems Society, Chairman of the Technical Committee on "Large Scale Systems and Differential Games" 1982, 1983
• Also, member of Program Committees of numerous IEEE and IFAC Conferences and Symposia

Editorship:

• Automatica
  • Editor-in-Chief (2004-2014)
  • Deputy Editor-in-Chief (1993-2003 )
  • Editor (1992-2003)
  • Associate Editor (1977-1991)
• Static & Dynamic Game Theory: Foundations and Applications, Birkhäuser, the Founding Series Editor (2011 - )
• SpringerBriefs in Electronic and Computer Engineering: Control, Automation and Robotics, Springer, Series Editor (2011 - )
• Annals of the International Society of Dynamic Games, Birkhäuser, the Founding Series Editor (1992 - )
• Systems & Control: Foundations and Applications, Birkhäuser, the Series Editor (2001 - )
• Founding Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Expert Now (2007 - 2009); Past Editor-in-Chief (2010-2012)
• Member of Editorial Board, The Control Handbook, Second Edition, CRC Press (2011 publication)
• Guest Co-Editor, IEEE J. Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), "Communication-Efficient Distributed Learning over Networks" (appeared in April 2023)
• Guest Co-Editor, IEEE J. Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), "Game Theory for Networks" (appeared in two parts in February and March 2017)
• Guest Co-Editor, IEEE J. Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), "Game Theory in Wireless Communications" (appeared in January 2012)
• Guest Co-Editor, Computer Networks, Special Issue on "New Network Paradigms" (appeared in April 2010)
• Guest Co-Editor, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Game Theory in Communication Systems (appeared in July 2008)
• Dynamic Games and Applications, Editorial Advisory Board (2011 - )
• J. Applied Mathematics, Editorial Board (2011 - )
• International J Control, Automation, and Systems (ICASE), Editorial Advisory Board (2003 - )
• IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • Guest Co-Editor, Special Issue on Systems and Control Methods for Communication Networks (2000 - 2002)
  • Editor for TN&C (July 1992 - August 1994)
  • Associate Editor at Large (1990 - 1993)
  • Associate Editor (1982-1983)
• Applied and Computational Mathematics, Honorary Editor (2002 - )
• Wireless Networks, Subject Editor (2003 - 2010)
• ARI, Springer Verlag, Subject Editor (1997 - 2002)
• Systems and Control Letters, Associate Editor (1995 - 2010)
• Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Associate Editor (1983 - 2001)
• Information and Decision Technologies (formerly Large Scale Systems), Associate Editor (1979-1991)
• Guest Associate Editor of a special joint issue of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Circuits and Systems, and Systems, Man and Cybernetics, on Large Scale Systems, appeared in June/July 1983

On the Review Board of:

• Zentralblatt für Mathematik (Berlin, Germany), 1972 - 2002
• Mathematical Reviews (Michigan, USA), 1974 - 2004
• Applied Mechanics Reviews (Texas, USA), since 1976

On the Advisory Board of:

• CURENT (Center for Ultra-Wide-Area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Networks, Scientific Advisory Board, NSF and DOE Engineering Research Center), University of Tennessee, Knoxville, since 2019.

Other:

• Editor of the IEEE Press Volume "Control Theory: Twenty-Five Seminal Papers (1932-1981)" (appeared in January 2001)

Selected invitations since 2000:

• Plenary/Semi-Plenary Speaker at:
  • 20th International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications, Valladolid, Spain, July 9-12, 2024 (2-hour tutorial) (Title: Dynamic Games with Networked Players and Learning Algorithms--A Tutorial)
  • 22nd World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC World Congress 2023), Yokohama, Japan, July 9-14, 2023 (Plenary) (Title: Multi-Agent Dynamical Systems: Misaligned Objectives, Equilibria, Learning, and Asymptotics)
  • 5th Annual Learning for Dynamics and Control Conference (L4DC 2023), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, June 14-16, 2023 (Keynote) (Title: Consensus and Dissensus in Multi-Agent Dynamical Systems with Learning)
  • 8th International Conference on Control and Optimization with Industrial Applications (COIA 2022), Baku, Azerbaijan, August 24-26, 2022 (Plenary) (Title: Policy Optimization for Optimal Control with Guarantees of Robustness)
  • 18th IFAC Workshop on Control Applications of Optimization (IFAC-CAO 2022), Gif-sur-Yvette, France, July 18-22, 2022 (Plenary) (Title: Mean Field Games and Selected Applications)
  • 2022 International Conference on Game Theory and Applications (GTA 2022), Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 28-July 1, 2022 (Plenary) (Title: Learning the Mean-Field Equilibrium with Multiple Populations)
  • Workshop on System Theory and Algorithms, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, May 9, 2022 (Title: Policy Optimization for Optimal Control with Guarantees of Robustness)
  • CT21, 2021 SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications, Mini-symposium on "Opinion Dynamics", Spokane, Washington, July 19-21, 2021 (Title: Distributed Learning and Consensus Formation with Dynamic Networks)
  • Shandong Taishan Academic Forum, Qingdao, China, 26 June 2021 (Plenary) (Title: Policy Optimization for Feedback Control with Guarantees of Robustness)
  • SIU 2021 (29th IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing and Transmission), Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 9-11, 2021 (Plenary) (Title: Strategic Information Transmission)
  • Economics Congress, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, May 8, 2021 (Plenary) (Title: Persuasion and Deception Through Strategic Information Transmission)
  • 3rd International Seminar on Control Theory and Theory of Generalized Solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi Equations (CGSÕ2020), Ekaterinburg, Russia, October 26-30, 2020 (Plenary) (Title: Mean Field Differential Games with Elements of Robustness)
  • 2nd International Conference on Industrial Artificial Intelligence, Shenyang, Liaoning, China, October 23-25, 2020 (Plenary) (Title: Policy Optimization for Linear Optimal Control with Guarantees of Robustness)
  • 7th International Conference on Control and Optimization with Industrial Applications (COIA 2020), Baku, Azerbaijan, Aug 26, 2020 (Plenary) (Title: Recent Advances in Mean Field Games)
  • Workshop on Distributed Systems and Games, Nanjing, China, October 12, 2019 (Plenary) (Title: Dependable Demand Response Management in the Smart Grid)
  • MOPTA 2019 (Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications), Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, August 14-16, 2019 (Plenary) (Title: Risk Sensitive Designs, Robustness, and Stochastic Games)
  • CFINS Workshop on Systems and Control, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, October 11, 2018 (Plenary) (Title: Communication Scheduling and Remote Estimation over Networks)
  • ISAS 2018 (2nd International Symposium on Autonomous Systems), Chongqing, China, May 19-21, 2018 (Plenary) (Title: Strategic Information Transmission in Networked Systems)
  • CFINS Workshop on Emerging Frontiers in Systems and Control, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, May 16, 2018 (Plenary) (Title: Risk Sensitive Designs, Robustness, and Stochastic Games)
  • WCGT 2018 (7th Midwest Workshop on Control and Game Theory), Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, April 28-29, 2018 (Plenary) (Title: Risk Sensitive Designs, Robustness, and Stochastic Games)
  • ICONIP 2017 (The 24th International Conference on Neural Information Processing), Guangzhou, China, November 14-18, 2017 (Plenary) (Title: Distributed Learning and Consensus Formation with Dynamic Networks)
  • 4th Workshop on Mean Field Games and Related Topics, Rome, Italy, June 14-16, 2017 (Plenary) (Title: A General Theory for Discrete-Time Mean-Field Games)
  • Southern California Control Workshop (SCCW), UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, June 3, 2016 (Plenary) (Title: Fundamental Trade-offs in Robust Control with Heterogeneous Uncertainty)
  • Turkish Automatic Control Conference (TOK 2015), Pamukkale, Turkey, September 10-12, 2015 (Plenary) (Title: Fundamental Trade-offs in Robust Control with Heterogeneous Uncertainty)
  • 5th International Conference on Control and Optimization with Industrial Applications (COIA 2015), Baku, Azerbaijan, August 27-29, 2015 (Plenary) (Title: Multi-Agent Networked Systems with Adversarial Elements)
  • KAUST-NSF Research Conference on Electronic Materials, Devices and Systems for a Sustainable Future, Thuval, Saudi Arabia, February 14-16, 2015 (Plenary) (Title: Stochastic Dynamic Teams and Games with Asymmetric Information)
  • International Conference on Network Games, Control and Optimization (NetGCOOP 2014), Trento, Italy, October 29-31, 2014 (Plenary) (Title: Stochastic Dynamic Teams and Games with Asymmetric Information)
  • Turkish Automatic Control Conference (TOK 2014), Izmit, Turkey, September 11-13, 2014 (Plenary) (Title: Control of Multi-Agent Networked Systems under Uncertainty)
  • 13th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST 2014), Florence, Italy, September 8-12, 2014 (Plenary) (Title: Multi-Agent Networked Systems with Adversarial Elements)
  • 9th Asian Control Conference (ASCC 2013), Istanbul, Turkey, June 23-26, 2013 (Plenary) (Title: Multi-Agent Networked Systems with Adversarial Elements)
  • International Conference on Network Games, Control and Optimization (NetGCOOP 2012), Avignon, France, November 28-30, 2012 (Plenary) (Title: Secure Information Flow, Coordination and Control in Multi-Agent Networked Systems)
  • Symposium on Game Theory and Human Behavior (GTHB 2012), USC Institute for Creative Technologies, Los Angeles, November 9, 2012 (Keynote) (Title: Multi-Agent Networked Systems with Adversarial Elements)
  • 5th International Symposium on Resilient Control Systems (ISRCS 2012), Salt Lake City, Utah, August 14-16, 2012 (Plenary) (Title: Game-Theoretic Framework for Network Resilience, Reliability and Security (NR2S))
  • 1st International Workshop on Small Cell Wireless Networks (SmallNets), ICC 2012, Ottawa, Canada, June 15, 2012 (Plenary) (Title: Game Theoretic Approach to Efficient Power Control in Small Cell Networks)
  • 12th Viennese Workshop on Optimal Control, Dynamic Games and Nonlinear Dynamics, Vienna, May 30 - June 02, 2012 (Plenary) (Title: Stochastic Differential Games with Non-Standard Information)
  • 8th International Workshop on Resource Allocation and Cooperation in Wireless Networks (RAWNET'12), Paderborn, Germany, May 18, 2012 (Plenary) (Title: Incentivizing Agents Toward Efficient Resource Utilization in Networks)
  • 5th International Symposium on Communications, Control, and Signal Processing (ISCCSP-2012), Rome, Italy, May 2-4, 2012 (Plenary) (Title: Opportunistic Sensing, Communication and Control in Networked Systems)
  • 1st Conference on High Confidence Networked Systems (HiCoNS'12), CPSWeek 2012, Beijing, China, April 16-17, 2012 (Plenary) (Title: Secure Information Flow in Multi-Agent Networked Systems in Adversarial Environments)
  • Chinese Automation Congress (CAC 2011), Beijing, China, November 27, 2011 (Plenary) (Title: Multi-Agent Networked Systems: Efficiency Through Coordination and Control)
  • Chinese Control Conference (CCC 2011), Yantai, Shangdong Province, China, July 22-24, 2011 (Plenary) (Title: Sensing, Coordination and Control in Adversarial Environments with Limited Actions)
  • 5th International ICST Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (ValueTools 2011), ENS, Canches, France, May 17-19, 2011 (Plenary) (Title: Dynamic Teams and Games with Non-standard Information)
  • The Third International Workshop on Indoor and Outdoor Femto Cells, Princeton, NJ, May 13, 2011 (Plenary) (Title: Game-Theoretic Approach to Power Control in Wireless Systems)
  • Turkish National Committee on Automatic Control, National Symposium on Automatic Control (TOK'10), Gebze Institute of Technology, Gebze, Turkey, September 21-23, 2010 (Plenary) (Title: Variations on the LQG Paradigm and the Emerging Subtleties)
  • Amorph International Workshop -- Amorphous Computing & Complex Biological Networks, The Halifax, Endcliffe Village, Sheffield, UK, August 17-20, 2010 (Plenary) (Title: Games, Networks, and Distributed Computation)
  • 6th Spain, Italy and Netherlands Meeting on Game Theory (SING 6), Palermo, Italy, July 7-9, 2010 (Plenary) (Title: Dynamic Teams, Games, and Non-Classical Information)
  • 4th International Symposium on Communications, Control and Signal Processing (ISCCSP-2010), Limassol, Cyprus, March 3-5, 2010 (Plenary; cancelled)
  • 10th International Conference on Automation Technology (Automation 2009), Tainan, Taiwan, June 27-28, 2009 (Plenary) (Title: Networked Sensing and Control with Limits on Transmission)
  • 2009 (21st) Chinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC 2009), Guilin (Guangxi), China, June 17-19, 2009 (Plenary) (Title: Games, Decisions, Control and Communications: Common Threads and Coping with Non-Neutrality)
  • 2009 (5th) Northeast Control Workshop (NECW 2009), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 24-26, 2009 (Plenary) (Title: Non-Neutral Decision Making in Control and Dynamic Games)
  • Second International Conference on Game Theory and Management (GTM 2008), St. Petersburg, Russia, June 26-27, 2008 (Plenary) (Title: Hierarchical Games and Reverse Engineering)
  • Second International Conference on Control and Optimization with Industrial Applications (COIA-2008), Baku, Azerbaijan, June 2-4, 2008 (Plenary) (Title: Games, Networks, and Non-Standard Optimization)
  • Dynamic Games in Management Science, Montreal, Canada, May 2-3, 2008 (Plenary) (Title: Hierarchical Incomplete Information Games with Applications in Pricing for Communication Network Resource Allocation)
  • 2008 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC 2008), Sanya, China, April 6-8, 2008 (Plenary) (Title: Sensing and Control over Heterogeneous Networks with Limited Transmission)
  • IFAC Symposium on Computational Economics and Financial and Industrial Systems (CEFIS'07), Istanbul, Turkey, October 9-11, 2007 (Plenary) (Title: Networks, Games, and Economics: Convergence and Confluence)
  • Fourth International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2007), Nanjing, China, June 3-7, 2007 (Plenary) (Title: Distributed Decision Making, Computation and Consensus)
  • 1st International Conference on Computer Science and Education (ICCSE 2006), Xiamen, China, July 27-29, 2006 (Plenary) ) (Title: Networks and Games: A Fast-Growing Interaction in Research and Education)
  • 6th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA06), Dalian, China, June 21-23, 2006 (Plenary) ) (Title: Control over Unreliable Communication Links)
  • Robust Control Workshop 2005, Delft, the Netherlands, June 29-July 1, 2005 (Plenary) (Title: Different Shades of Robustness: A Differential Games Approach)
  • International Seminar on Control Theory and Theory of Generalized Solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi Equations (CGS'2005), Ekaterinburg, Russia, June 22-26, 2005 (Plenary) (Title: Risk-Averse Designs for Identification and Filtering: From Exponentiated Cost to Differential Games)
  • First International Conference on Control and Optimization with Industrial Applications (COIA-2005), Baku, Azerbaijan, May 22-25, 2005 (Plenary) (Title: Optimal Control over Communication Networks)
  • 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Nassau, The Bahamas, December 14-17, 2004 (Plenary, Bode Lecture) (Title: Games, Decisions, and Control: Fifty Years Back, Fifty Years Forward)
  • 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii, December 9-12, 2003 (Plenary) (Title: Entanglement of Communication and Control)
  • 2003 IEEE Conference on Control Applications, Istanbul, Turkey, June 23-25, 2003 (Plenary) (Title: Managing Congestion in Large-Scale Communication Networks: An Emerging Paradigm for Control Applications)
  • 4th IFAC Symposium on Robust Control, Milan, Italy, June 25-27, 2003 (Plenary) (Title: Issues of Robustness in Network Management and Control)
  • 4th International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA'03), Montreal, Canada, June 10-12, 2003 (Plenary) (Title: Regulating Traffic on Heterogeneous Communication Networks)
  • Workshop Prixnet, Rennes, France, March 11-12, 2003 (Plenary) (Title: Network Pricing and Resource Provisioning in a Many-Users Regime)
  • TOK'02, ODTU, Ankara, on September 11, 2002 (Plenary) (Title: Control of Congestion in Communication Networks)
  • International Symposium on Economic Dynamics and Control, Klagenfurt, Austria, September 6-8, 2001 (Plenary) (Title: Paradigms for Robustness in Controller and Filter Designs)
  • European Control Conference, Porto, Portugal, September 4-7, 2001 (Semi-Plenary) (Title: Control Challenges for Communication over Heterogeneous Networks)
  • The XIVth Italian Meeting on Game Theory and Applications, Ischia, Italy, July 11-14, 2001 (Plenary) (Title: Network Games -- or -- Game Theory for Networks)
  • 39th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Sydney, Australia, December 12-15, 2000 (Plenary Panel, Chair)
  • The Ohio State University Workshop on Systems and Control, Columbus, Ohio, April 1, 2000 (Plenary) (Title: Decentralized Control Methods for Flow Control in High Speed Networks)
• Invited Speaker at:
  • 2024 European Control Conference (ECC2024), Stockholm, Sweden, June 25-28, 2024 (Workshop on Multi-Agent Learning and Control) (Title: RL for Multi-Agent Dynamical Systems with Asymmetric Information)
  • 10th Midwest Workshop on Control and Game Theory (WCGT’24), Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, April 27-28, 2024 (Featured talk on April 27) (Title: Excursions into Nonstandard LQG Decision Making)
  • New Frontiers in Networked Dynamical Systems: Assured Learning, Communication and Control, University of Maryland College Park, October 13-14, 2023 (Opening keynote) (Title: Softly Shaping Behavior)
  • EnCORE Institute Workshop on "Distributed Learning and Decision Making", ITA 2023, San Diego, CA, February 16, 2023 (Title: Consensus and Dissensus in Multi-Population Multi-Agent Systems)
  • Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning and Bandit Learning Workshop, Simons Institute, UC Berkeley, May 2-5, 2022 (Title: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in the High Population Regime)
  • CDC 2021 Workshop on Distributed Learning, December 12, 2021; Speaker and Panel Member (Title of presentation: Decentralized Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning with Networked Agents)
  • Mean Field Games on Networks Workshop, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 26-29, 2021 (Title of invited presentation on October 27: Networked Mean Field Games with Elements of Robustness and Learning)
  • c3.ai Workshop on Machine Learning for a Resilient, Secure, Carbon-Free Electricity Supply (Day 2: Cybersecurity and Privacy; Speaker and Panel member) June 11, 2021 (Title of presentation: Policy Optimization for Robust and Secure Reinforcement Learning)
  • Primary Speaker, Workshop on "Differential Games," 31st Stony Brook International Conference on Game Theory, Stony Brook, July 27, 2020
  • IPAM Workshop on "Mean Field Games and Applications," University of California, Los Angeles, May 4-8, 2020 (several lectures; virtual).
  • MANSIO (Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Systems) Graduate School, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria, August 26-September 3, 2019 (Lectures on control and game theory).
  • DISC (Dutch Institute of Systems and Control) Summer School on "When Game Theory Meets Systems and Control," NH Leeuwenhorst, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, June 17-20, 2019 (Lectures on "Incentive mechanisms through pricing" and "Strategic information transmission").
  • IPAM Graduate Summer School on "Mean Field Games and Applications," University of California, Los Angeles, June 19-20, 2018 (three lectures titled: Stochastic differential games in finite and infinite population regimes, Parts I-III).
  • NSF Workshop on "Real-time Learning and Decision Making in Dynamical Systems," National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia, February 12-13, 2018 (lecture titled: Strategic information transmission and deception).
  • ARO Workshop on "HoneyThings: Autonomous and Resilient Cyber Deception," University of North Carolina at Charlotte, January 29, 2018 (lecture titled: Strategic information transmission and deception).
  • IPAM Workshop on "Mean Field Games," University of California, Los Angeles, August 28-September 1, 2017.
  • ICERM Workshop on "Robust Methods in Probability and Finance," Brown University, Providence, RI, June 19-23, 2017
  • IMaCCS 2017, Information Modeling and Control of Complex Systems Workshop, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, June 1-2, 2017
  • Workshop on Information, Decisions, and Networks, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, July 28-29, 2016.
  • SATC Workshop on Privacy and Security, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, June 15-17, 2016.
  • Mini-workshop on Networked Control Systems and Their Applications, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, May 13, 2016.
  • Seventh Turkish Science Diaspora Conference (TASSA 2016), University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, April 3, 2016.
  • IMA Workshop on Distributed Control and Decision Making on Networks, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 28-30, 2015.
  • IPAM Graduate Summer School on Games and Contracts for Cyber-Physical Security, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, July 21-23, 2015.
  • ITN SADCO (Initial Training Network--Sensitivity Analysis for Deterministic Controller Design), University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy, November 10-12, 2014.
  • Workshop on "Cyber social physical systems: New perspectives on transportation infrastructure pricing," Illinois Center, Chicago, August 20-21, 2012.
  • Workshop on "Robust Networked Infrastructures: Reliability and Security from Game Theoretic Perspective," American Control Conference (ACC 2012), Montreal, Canada, June 26, 2012.
  • Tutorial Session on "Resilient Control Systems", IEEE/ACM CPS Week, Beijing, China, April 16, 2012.
  • Workshop on "Control Systems Security: Challenges and Directions," CDC/ECC 2011, Orlando, Florida, December 11, 2011.
  • Workshop on "Game Theory for Finance, Social and Biological Sciences (GAM)," the University of Warwick, Coventry, England, April 14-17, 2010.
  • Information Theory and Applications (ITA) Workshop, University of California, San Diego, February 5, 2010.
  • Tutorial Session on "Game Theory and Networks", IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico, December 9, 2008 (Organizer and Speaker).
  • Workshop on "Control and Games", Delft, Netherlands, November 13-14, 2008.
  • Symposium on "Foundations of Wireless Networks and Beyond", University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, October 16-17, 2008.
  • Workshop on the "Frontiers in Game Theory and Networked Control Systems", MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 10-12, 2008.
  • Workshop on "Analysis and Design of Nonlinear Control Systems", London, England, May 15-16, 2008.
  • CASY Workshop on "Advances in Control Theory and Applications", Bertinoro, Italy, May 22-26, 2006.
  • Workshop on Learning and Information in Games and Control, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, March 22-23, 2006.
  • System and Control Theory Workshop, Gebze Technology Institute, Gebze, Kocaeli, Turkey, September 7-9, 2005
  • Symposium on Advances in Systems and Control, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 23-24, 2001
  • The Eleventh Yale Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Systems, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, June 4-6, 2001
  • PearsonFest, Rice University, Houston, Texas, March 9, 2001
  • Information Technology Workshop, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, March 2, 2001
  • Workshop on New Directions in Control, Hong-Kong, June 30-July 2, 1999
• Distinguished Lectureships, Seminars, and Long-Term Visits:
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, February 27, 2024 (Colloquium talk) (Title: Multi-agent Dynamical Systems: Equilibria, Learning, and Asymptotics)
  • 2023 Annual Wook Hyun Kwon Tutorial, Seoul National University, September 23, 2023 (Title: Dynamic Game Theory and Selected Applications)
  • 2023 Annual Wook Hyun Kwon Lecture, Seoul National University, September 22, 2023 (Title: Games, Decisions, and Control: A Historical Journey)
  • 3rd Colloquium Roberto Tempo in Automatica (IEEE CSS Day 2022), Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, October 19, 2022 (Title: Consensus and Dissensus in Multi-Population Multi-Agent Systems)
  • IEEE CSS Day Webinar, October 19, 2022 (Title: Games, Decisions, and Control: Past, Present, and Future)
  • IEEE TNSE Distinguished Seminar, August 25, 2022 (Title: Multi-type Multi-agent Non-cooperative Systems in the High Population Regime)
  • Wilbur Cross Lecture, Yale University, April 4, 2022 (Title: Mean Field Games with Elements of Robustness)
  • c3.ai DTI Colloquium, March 31, 2022 (Title: Inducement of Desired Behavior via Soft Policies)
  • ECE Colloquium, University of Washington, April 27, 2021 (Title: Policy Optimization for Optimal Control with Guarantees of Robustness)
  • ICON Distinguished Lecture, Purdue University, March 12, 2021 (Title: Policy Optimization for Optimal Control with Guarantees of Robustness)
  • Control Meets Learning Webinar (Virtual Seminar Series on the Intersection of Control and Learning), October 21, 2020 (Title: Policy Optimization for Linear Optimal Control with Guarantees of Robustness)
  • Georgia Institute of Technology DCL Distinguished Seminar, September 4, 2020 (Title: Mean Field Differential Games with Elements of Robustness)
  • Game Theory and Network Theory Webinar, September 1, 2020 (Title: Mean Field Differential Games with Elements of Robustness)
  • Mathematical Foundations of Data Science Webinar, August 25, 2020 (Title: Policy Optimization for Linear Optimal Control with Guarantees of Robustness)
  • Distinguished Speaker at State Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation for Process Industries, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, June 30, 2020 (virtual) (Title: Modeling, Analysis, and Control of Spread of Epidemics)
  • Distinguished Lecture, CFINS, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, May 15, 2020 (virtual) (Title: Modeling, Analysis, and Control of Spread of Epidemics)
  • DREAM Seminar, University of California, Berkeley, February 24, 2020 (Title: Strategic Interactions on Networks with a High Population of Agents)
  • Mercer Distinguished Lecture, RPI, February 19, 2020 (Title: Multi-Agent Networked Systems)
  • Distinguished Speaker Colloquium, ECE, University of California, Riverside, January 27, 2020 (Title: Strategic Information Transmission and Deception)
  • Kwan Chao-Chih Distinguished Lecture, Institute of Systems Science, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, May 14, 2019
  • Hsue-Shen Tsien Lecture, Institute of Automation, Beijing, China, October 12, 2018
  • Jonsson School Distinguished Lecture, University of Texas, Dallas, February 9, 2018
  • ESE Distinguished Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, November 28, 2017
  • Faculty Distinguished Lecture, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong, April 5, 2017
  • Science and Technology Innovators Lecturer, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 5, 2013
  • The College of Engineering Distinguished Speaker, University of Miami, Florida, February 4, 2013
  • ISR Distinguished Lecture, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, October 11, 2010
  • Boeing-UIUC Inaugural Lecture, Boeing, Seattle, Washington, June 10, 2008
  • Graduate Colloquim Speaker (Public Lecture), Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, October 20, 2005
  • Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Featured Tutorial Speaker, Rome, New York, August 9-10, 2005
  • ECE Distinguished Lecturer, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, November 25, 2003
  • The S.S. Penner Distinguished Lecturer in the Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering Sciences, University of California, San Diego, November 21, 2003
  • INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France, February 27 - March 29, 2003
  • Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong, January 12 - February 1, 2003
  • National University of Singapore, Singapore, January 5-12, 2003
  • University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy, March 20 - April 11, 2001
  • Symbol Technologies Lecturer, Department of Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York, October 12, 2000
  • Eminent Speaker of Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, May 4, 2000
  • Zaborszky Lecturer for 1999, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, May 3-5, 1999.
  • Distinguished Lecturer for 1999, Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, February 17-19, 1999.

Current research interests

• Multi-agent networked systems
• Multi-agent systems and reinforcement learning
• Data-driven distributed optimization
• Strategic information transmission
• Network games
• Usage-limited sensing, estimation, and control
• Security in computer networks; intrusion detection and response
• Risk-sensitive estimation and control
• Dynamic games and stochastic teams
• Mean-field game theory
• Decentralized and distributed detection and estimation
• Control over wired and wireless networks
• Routing, pricing, and congestion control
• Modeling and control of communication networks
• Mobile and distributed computing
• Incentive mechanisms through pricing
• Cyber-physical systems
• Energy systems and the smart grid
• Social networks
• Epidemic networks
• Robustness, resilience and trust in multi-agent systems
• Applications of control and game theory in economics

Books : 10; Monographs/Lecture Notes : 4; Volumes Edited : 10; Articles in Edited Volumes : 74; Journal Articles : 333; Papers in Conference Proceedings : 664; Book Reviews : 36

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