Starting in 1992, he has published more than 100 research papers in international refereed journals and more than 150 papers in proceedings of the leading IEEE and International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) conferences and symposiums.

His research interests include optimal filtering and control problems, stochastic systems, time-delay systems, identification, sliding-mode control, and variable structure systems.,Dr. Basin has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of The Franklin Institute (2010–2013) and currently serves as its Senior Editor in Control, a Technical Editor of the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, and an Associate Editor of Automatica, IET-Control Theory and Applications, International Journal of Systems Science, and other journals. He was awarded the title of Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters, the publisher of the Science Citation Index (SCI), in 2009. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society and a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.