Miroslav Krstic serves as Sr. Assoc. Vice Chancellor for Research at UC San Diego, overseeing Organized Research Units, the research scientist and postdoctoral scholar affairs, proposal development services, and research initiatives. He is Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, holds the Alspach endowed chair, and is the founding director of the Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics. Krstic has been elected Fellow of IEEE, IFAC, ASME, SIAM, AAAS, IET (UK), and AIAA (Assoc. Fellow) - and as a foreign member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and of the Academy of Engineering of Serbia. He has received the IEEE Roger W. Brockett Control Systems Award, Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, Bode Lecture Prize, SIAM Reid Prize, ASME Oldenburger Medal, Nyquist Lecture Prize, Paynter Outstanding Investigator Award, Ragazzini Education Award, IFAC Nonlinear Control Systems Award, IFAC Ruth Curtain Distributed Parameter Systems Award, IFAC Adaptive and Learning Systems Award, IFAC Time-Delay Systems Lifetime Achievement Award, Chestnut textbook prize, AV Balakrishnan Award for the Mathematics of Systems, Control Systems Society Distinguished Member Award, the PECASE, NSF Career, and ONR Young Investigator awards, the Schuck (’96 and ’19) and Axelby paper prizes, and the first UCSD Research Award given to an engineer. Krstic is a Fellow-Ambassador of the French CNRS and has also been awarded the Springer Visiting Professorship at UC Berkeley, the Distinguished Visiting Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Invitation Fellowship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and four honorary professorships outside of the United States. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Systems & Control Letters and has been serving as Senior Editor in Automatica and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, as editor of two Springer book series, and has served as Vice President for Technical Activities of the IEEE Control Systems Society and as chair of the IEEE CSS Fellow Committee. Krstic has coauthored eighteen books on adaptive, nonlinear, and stochastic control, extremum seeking, control of PDE systems including turbulent flows, and control of delay systems.