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Wednesday, October 21, 2020
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Online Event

Control Meets Learning Seminar

Tamer Başar, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Speaker's Bio:
Tamer Başar was born in Istanbul, Turkey, on January 19, 1946. He received B.S.E.E. degree from Robert College, Istanbul, in 1969, and M.S., M.Phil, and Ph.D. degrees in engineering and applied science from Yale University, in 1970, 1971 and 1972, respectively. After stints at Harvard University, Marmara Research Institute (Gebze, Turkey), and Bogaziçi University (Istanbul), he joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 1981, where he is with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and is the Director of the Center for Advanced Study, and carries the academic titles of Swanlund Endowed Chair, Center for Advanced Study Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor at the Coordinated Science Laboratory, Professor with the Information Trust Institute, and Affiliate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering. During 2018, he was Interim Dean of the College of Engineering, and during 2008-2010, he was Interim Director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois. He spent sabbatical years at Twente University of Technology (the Netherlands; 1978-79), and INRIA (France; 1987-88, 1994-95).

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