Miroslav Krstic

 

Associate Vice Chancellor for Research

 

Director, Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics, UCSD

 

Daniel L. Alspach Endowed Chair in Dynamic Systems and Control

 

Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

 

 

 

Department of Mechanical & Aero. Eng.
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0411

 

E-Mail: krstic@ucsd.edu

Admin. Assistant for CCSD matters: Marina Robenko, (858) 822-1269, mrobenko@ucsd.edu

Admin. Coordinator for Research Affairs matters: Patrice Lock, (858) 822-3439, plock@ucsd.edu

 

Office in CCSD/MAE: 1808 EBUI          Office in Research Affairs: Building 965 (receptionist will escort you to my office)

For the locations of my two offices and directions between them, click here. (A is Engineering/EBUI building, B is Research Affairs/965 building.)

Phone in CCSD/MAE: (858) 822-1374                  Phone in Research Affairs: (858) 534-5556       (Do not leave voicemail – send email)

 

Lab: 2101 EBUI, phone: (858)534-5670      FAX: (858) 822-3107

 

As Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, Professor Krstic oversees the following UCSD units:

·       Organized Research Units (institutes and centers, except in School of Medicine and Scripps Institution of Oceanography)

·       Postdoctoral Affairs

·       Research Personnel Affairs

·       Shared Research Facilities

 

 

RESEARCH and PUBLICATIONS

 

Summary of my research:    SHORT     LONG, with citations                

For the curious: my 4 representative papers     Sample TALKS

 

Control Theory: Nonlinear & adaptive control. Stabilization of PDEs. Extremum seeking. Delay systems. Stochastic averaging and stabilization in probability. Non-cooperative games.

Applications (click on the link for papers): Fluid/thermal dynamics (flow instabilities and aerodynamic drag, mixing, vortex shedding, jet engine/gas turbine compressors, fluid networks, thermal/flow instabilities, combustion). Fusion/plasmas, magnetohydrodynamics, accelerators, lasers. Source seeking in GPS-denied environments. Locomotion of fish and cells. Automotive engines. Marine vehicles. Aircraft endurance, aircraft wing rock, helicopter noise, satellites. Flexible beams. Biological and chemical reactors.  

 

• Publication list (with PDF files of papers)
• 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 Magnetoydrodynamic 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. 

 

Books by topic (click on the icon):

 

Nonlinear Control	Extremum Seeking	PDE Control	Flow Control	Delays

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

 

Detailed citation summary from Google Scholar, including h-index.        

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

 

 

PHD STUDENTS	FORMER PHD STUDENTS
Nikos Bekiaris-Liberis	Z.-H. Li, 1997 (UMd)	Jennie Cochran, 2008
Halil Basturk	Faycal Ikhouane, 1997 (EMI)	Antranik Siranosian, 2009
Azad Ghaffari	H.-H. Wang, 1998 (UMd)	Nima Ghods, 2011
Gideon Prior	Hua Deng, 2000	Paul Frihauf, 2012
Shuxia Tang	Dejan Boskovic, 2001	James Krieger, 2012
David Ryan	Ole Morten Aamo, 2002 (NTNU)	Alex Scheinker, 2012
Greg Mills	Kartik Ariyur, 2002
	Lawrence Yuan, 2002	Ex-POSTDOCS
	J.-Y. Choi, 2002 (Pohang U)	Andras Balogh (1998-2002)
POSTDOCS	Olga Koroleva, 2004	Weijiu Liu (1998-99)
	Eugenio Schuster, 2004	Eduardo Cerpa (2007-2008)
Scott Moura	C.-L. Zhang, 2006 (U Dayton)	Shujun Liu (2008-2009)
Federico Bribiesca	Andrey Smyshlyaev, 2006	Andrey Smyshlyaev (2007-2010)
	Rafael Vazquez, 2006	Florent Di Meglio (2011-2012)
	Nick Killingsworth, 2007	Beibei Ren (2010-2013)

 

TEACHING

• Nonlinear Systems, MAE 281A, Winter 98, 00—12.
• Nonlinear Control, MAE 281B, Spring 98, 00, 02, 03.
• Adaptive Control, MAE 282, Winter 1999, Spring 2001, Fall 02, 03, 06, Spring 10.
• Control of Distributed Parameter Systems, MAE 287, Spring 99, Fall 05, 08, 11.
• Robust and Multivariable Control, MAE 284, Spring 2004.
• Undergraduate: Linear Control, MAE 143B, 98—01, 05—13.
• Undergraduate: Signals and Systems, MAE 143A, Sum 03—09.

EDUCATION

• PhD (1994) and MS (1992), University of California, Santa Barbara, Electrical Engineering, adv. P. Kokotovic.
• Dipl. Ing. (1989), University of Belgrade, Electrical Engineering, Yugoslavia.

 

RECOGNITIONS

• Fellow of IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control), 2008.
• Russell Severance Springer Distinguished Visiting Professor, UC Berkeley, 2007.
• The Jacobs School Harold W. Sorenson Distinguished Scholar, 2005-
• UCSD Chancellor's Associates Award for Excellence in Research in Science and Engineering, 2005.
• IEEE Fellow, 2001.
• Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), 1999.
• Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, 1998.
• National Science Foundation Career Award, 1996.

 

• George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award of IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, 1998.
• O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award, American Automatic Control Council, 1996.
• Semi-plenary paper selection at ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (one of the best 6 papers, selected through blind review, among the 320 papers accepted for the conference), Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, 2012.

 

• Best Dissertation Award, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1995.
• The only recipient of the Student Best Paper Awards at both the IEEE Conf. Decision & Control and the American Control Conf. ('93 and '94, respectively)
• My students’ paper awards: Z. Li (winner at ’97 ACC), H. Deng (finalist at ’98 ACC and ’99 IFAC World Congress), R. Vazquez (finalist at ’05 CDC), A. Smyshlyaev (finalist at ’06 ACC), N. Bekiaris-Liberis (finalist at ’10 ASME DSCC), A. Scheinker (finalist at ’12 ACC)

 

• UCSD Diversity Award, 2006.
• Outstanding Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2006.
• Excellent Reviewer, AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 2008.

 

PLENARY and other major LECTURES   

1. IFAC Workshop on Control of Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations, Paris, 2013
2. IFAC Nonlinear Control Systems Symposium (NOLCOS), Toulouse, France, 2013

3.     IFAC Workshop on Adaptation and Learning in Control and Signal Proc., Caen, France, 2013

4. IEEE International Conference on Electronics and Automation, Chengdu, China, 2012

5.     7^th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Automation, Singapore, 2012

6. 11^th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics, and Vision, Singapore, 2010
7. IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control, Yokohama, Japan, 2010 (movie, pdf)
8. 18^th IFAC Sympotium on Automatic Control in Aerospace, Nara, Japan, 2010
9. 52^nd National Symposium on Automatic Control (TOK'10), Gebze, Turkey, 2010
10. IFAC Workshop on Time-Delay Systems, Prague, Czech Republic, 2010
11. ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, Hollywood, California, 2009.
12. Mediterranean Control Conference, Ajaccio, France, 2008.
13. Chinese Control and Decision Conference, Yantai, 2008.
14. IFAC Symp. Adaptive Systems in Control and Signal Processing, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2007.
15. IFAC NOLCOS Symposium, Pretoria, South Africa, 2007.
16. Chinese Control Conference, Harbin, 2006.

 

◦       Diamond Anniversary Lecture (movie), Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, 2011.

◦       Nokia Distinguished Lecture (movie), UC Berkeley, 2008.

 

◦       Distinguished Lecturer, International Summer School on Automatic Control, Grenoble, France, 2012.

◦       Distinguished Lecturer, Dutch Institute of Systems and Control (DISC), Summer School on “Optimization and Control,” 2012

◦       Distinguished Lecturer, DHYCON2-EECI Graduate School on Control, Supelec, France, 2012

◦       Eastern Canada Lecture Tour (5 universities), IEEE Control Systems Society,  2009

◦       Distinguished Lecturer, Dutch Institute of Systems and Control (DISC), Summer School on “Nonlinear Control,” 2007

◦       Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Control Systems Society, 2006-2010.

◦       Southwest Mechanics Lecture Tour, Distinguished Lecturer, 2003. 

 

◦       Kokotovic Fest, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2009

◦       Sontag Fest, Rutgers University, 2012

◦       Bastin Fest, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 2012

◦       Spong Fest, University of Texas, Dallas, 2012

 

EDITORSHIP                

 

JOURNALS

◦       IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Senior Editor, 2009-

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

◦       ESAIM: Control, Optimisation, and Calculus of Variations, Associate Editor, 2009-

◦       Int. J. Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, Associate Editor, 1995- 2011

◦       IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Associate Editor, 1997-2000

◦       Systems & Control Letters, Associate Editor, 1998-2003

◦       J. Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete, and Impulsive Systems, Associate Editor, 2000-2006

◦       Int. J. Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Editorial Board member, 2008-

◦       Int. J. of Differential Equations, Editorial Board member, 2008-

 

BOOK SERIES

• Springer-Verlag book series Communications and Control Engineering, Editor, 2010-
• Springer Briefs Series in Control, Automation, and Robotics, Editor, 2011-
• Birkhauser Series Foundations of Systems and Control, Member, Advisory Board, 2011-

 

 

SERVICE                      

• Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, UCSD, 2012-
• Faculty Equity Advisor for Research Affairs, 2012-
• Vice Chair, Dept. MAE, UCSD, 1999-2004

 

• Vice President for Technical Activities, IEEE Control Systems Society, 2002-2004
• Board of Governors Member, IEEE Control Systems Society, 2000-2004
• Chair, IEEE Fellow Evaluation Committee, Control Systems Society, 2008-2010

 

·       Program Chair, ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, 2013

·       General Co-Chair, 20^th International Conference on Magnetically Levitated Systems and Linear Drives, 2008.

 

Consulting and Expert Witness Experience    

• Control of compressors and combustion in gas turbine engines
• Control of automotive engines
• Automotive electronics
• Oxygen sensors and mass air flow sensors in control of automotive emissions and gas mileage
• Automotive crash testing and controlled sleds for crash simulation

 

Portrait photo downloadable in jpg, pdf, eps.

Short bio for seminars and pubs.