Miroslav Krstic is Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, holds the Alspach endowed chair, and is the founding director of the Center for Control Systems and Dynamics at UC San Diego. He also serves as Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at UCSD. As a graduate student, Krstic won the UC Santa Barbara best dissertation award and student best paper awards at CDC and ACC. Krstic has been elected Fellow of seven scientific societies - 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 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, 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 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.

 

 

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Miroslav Krstic is a researcher in control theory and engineering, with interests in adaptive, nonlinear, and stochastic control, extremum seeking, and control of PDEs and delay systems. On these topics, he has coauthored eighteen books and over four hundred journal papers. Krstic is Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC San Diego. As a graduate student, Krstic won the UC Santa Barbara best dissertation award and student best paper awards at CDC and ACC. Krstic is Fellow of IEEE, IFAC, ASME, SIAM, AAAS, IET (UK), AIAA (Assoc. Fellow), foreign member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and of the Academy of Engineering of Serbia. He has received the 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, 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 was recipient of 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 has served as Editor-in-Chief of Systems & Control Letters, Senior Editor in Automatica and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, editor of two Springer book series, and Vice President for Technical Activities of the IEEE Control Systems Society, and chair of the IEEE CSS Fellow Committee. Krstic holds the Alspach endowed chair, serves as the founding director of the Center for Control Systems and Dynamics, and as Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at UCSD.