Miroslav Krstic

 

Sr. Assoc. Vice Chancellor for Research, UC San Diego

 

Director, Center for Control Systems and Dynamics

 

Co-Director, Naval Innovation, Science, and Engineering Center (NISEC)

 

Daniel L. Alspach endowed chair in Dynamic Systems and Control

 

Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

 

 

E-Mail: mkrstic@ucsd.edu


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RESEARCH

 

Miroslav Krstic is a recipient of the Bellman Award, Reid Prize, Oldenburger Medal, Bode Lecture Prize, and a few other recognitions for his work in control theory.

Research synopsis on Wikipedia          List of theoretical concepts and design tools pioneered (Wikipedia)

Interview on research and some personal interests (2017)

InControl podcast (2025)

           

·       PAPERS (pdf)

·       BOOKS:

[B1]       Nonlinear and Adaptive Control Design, Wiley, 1995.

[B2]       Stabilization of Nonlinear Uncertain Systems, Springer, 1998.

[B3]       Flow Control by Feedback, Springer, 2002.

[B4]       Real-Time Optimization by Extremum Seeking Control, Wiley, 2003.

[B5]       Control of Turbulent and Magnetohydrodynamic Channel Flows, Birkhauser, 2007.

[B6]       Boundary Control of PDEs: A Course on Backstepping Designs, SIAM, 2008.

[B7]       Delay Compensation for Nonlinear, Adaptive, and PDE Systems, Birkhauser,  2009.

[B8]       Adaptive Control of Parabolic PDEs, Princeton University Press, 2010

[B9]       Stochastic Averaging and Stochastic Extremum Seeking, Springer, 2012. 

[B10]     Nonlinear Control Under Nonconstant Delays, SIAM, 2013. 

[B11]     Predictor Feedback for Delay Systems: Implementations and Approximations, Birkhauser, 2017. 

[B12]     Model-Free Stabilization by Extremum Seeking, Springer, 2017. 

[B13]     Input-to-State Stability for PDEs, Springer 2018.

[B14]     Delay-Adaptive Linear Control, Princeton University Press, 2020.

[B15]     Materials Phase Change PDE Control and Estimation, Birkhauser, 2020.

[B16]     PDE Control of String-Actuated Motion, Princeton University Press, 2022.

[B17]     Extremum Seeking through Delays and PDEs, SIAM, 2022.

[B18]     Traffic Congestion Control by PDE Backstepping, Birkhauser, 2022.

[B19]     Robust Adaptive Control: Deadzone-Adapted Disturbance Suppression, SIAM 2025.

 

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Nonlinear Control

Extremum Seeking

Delays

 

PDE Control

Flow & Thermal Control

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ScholarGPSTM ranking of Control Theorists

 

Google Scholar citation summary, including h-index

 

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Scopus publication summary by journals and conferences

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Most published authors in leading control journals:

1.     Automatica

2.     IEEE Trans. Automatic Control

2.     Systems & Control Letters

3.     SIAM Journal of Control and Optimization

4.     ASME J. Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control

5.     IEEE Trans. Control Systems Technology

 

Erdös number: 3 (via this paper with Ruth Williams)

 


EDUCATION

 

AWARDS

  • Fellow of AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 2017.
  • Fellow of SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics), 2015.
  • Fellow of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), 2014.
  • Fellow of IET (Institute for Engineering and Technology, United Kingdom), 2014.
  • Fellow of IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control), 2008.
  • Fellow of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), 2001.
  • Associate Fellow of AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics), 2015.
  • Foreign member, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2018

   (снимак приступног предавања у САНУ, 10. септембар 2019.)

  • Foreign member, Academy of Engineering of Serbia, 2015

 

 

 

 

 

 

o  Royal Academy of Engineering Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2013.

o  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Invitation Fellow, 2015-2016.

o  Russell Severance Springer Distinguished Visiting Professor, UC Berkeley, 2007.

o  The Jacobs School Harold W. Sorenson Distinguished Scholar, 2005-

 

o  Outstanding Contribution to Aerospace Research, American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) San Diego Section

o  Outstanding Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2006.

o  Excellent Reviewer, AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 2008.

 

o  UCSD Diversity Award, 2006.

 

EDITORSHIP               

 

JOURNALS

       IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Editor-in-Chief, 2026-

       Systems & Control Letters, Editor-in-Chief, 2019-

       Automatica, Editor for Adaptive and Distributed Parameter Systems, 2005-

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BOOK SERIES

 

 

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