Miroslav Krstić (

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: ''Мирослав Крстић'') is an American

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and Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the

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(UCSD). Krstić is also the director of the Center for Control Systems and Dynamics at UCSD and a Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Research.

Biography

Krstić was born on 14 September 1964 in

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(then part of

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). He received a

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degree in

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from the

University of Belgrade The University of Belgrade ( sr, / ) is a public university in Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia. Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-b ...

in 1989 and a

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in 1992. He completed his

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at the

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in 1994. Krstić was assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the

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from 1995 to 1997. He moved to

(UCSD) as associate professor in 1997. Since 2006 he has been the director of the Center for Control Systems and Dynamics and since 2012 he has served as Senior Associate Vice-Chancellor for Research at UCSD. In 2015 he was promoted to the rank of

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Work

Krstić has made significant contributions to adaptive control, nonlinear control, stochastic systems, extremum seeking, and boundary control of

partial differential equations In mathematics, a partial differential equation (PDE) is an equation which imposes relations between the various partial derivatives of a multivariable function. The function is often thought of as an "unknown" to be solved for, similarly to ...

. His control designs have had impact in several technologies, including

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in semiconductor manufacturing,

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system on NASA Mars rover Curiosity,

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on the newest aircraft carrier class Gerald Ford,

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, and in Lithium-ion battery management systems. In 2015, Krstić's colleagues published a

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on the latest innovations in nonlinear delay systems, as a tribute to his research. Krstić is a co-author of 18 books and about 450 journal papers. He is among the most highly cited researchers in the field of control systems according to

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and

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, with an h-index well over 110. His 1995 research monograph ''Nonlinear and Adaptive Control Design'' is one of the two highest cited in the field of control theory. Krstić is Editor-in-Chief of ''Systems & Control Letters'' and has been senior editor in the leading journals in control theory, ''Automatica'' and ''IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.''

Awards

Krstic is among the most highly recognized researchers in systems and control, having been the recipient of numerous awards, including: *

Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize The Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize is an award given by the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) to recognize distinguished contributions to control systems science or engineering. It was established in 1989, named after Hendrik W. Bode (1905–1982), ...

Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award The Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award is an annual award (since 1979) given by the American Automatic Control Council (AACC) for achievements in control theory, named after the applied mathematician Richard E. Bellman. The award is given fo ...

Rufus Oldenburger Medal The Rufus Oldenburger Medal is an award given by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers recognizing significant contributions and outstanding achievements in the field of automatic control. It was established in 1968 in the honor of Rufus ...

W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize The W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize is an annual award presented by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) for outstanding research in, or other contributions to, the broadly defined areas of Differential equation, differential equati ...

* A. V. "Bal" Balakrishnanbr>Award for Research in Mathematics of Systems
(inaugural recipient)
John Ragazzini Education Award

Harold Chestnut Control Engineering Textbook Prize
*IFAC TC Award on Non-Linear Control Systems *IFAC TC Distributed Parameter Systems Ruth F. Curtain Award (inaugural recipient) *IFAC TC Award on Adaptive and Learning Systems *ASM
Henry Paynter Outstanding Investigator AwardNyquist LectureIEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Member Award
*First engineering recipient of the UC San Diego Chancellor's Associates Award for Excellence in Science & Engineering Research (immediately following the Nobel laureate

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) *

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on outstanding scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers. The White ...

*Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award *

National Science Foundation Career Award The National Science Foundation CAREER awards, presented by the National Science Foundation (NSF), are in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through research and education, and the integration of these endeavors i ...

George Axelby Outstanding Paper Award (IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control)O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award
(1996 and 2019)
Foreign Member, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Krstic is Fellow of the

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International Federation of Automatic Control The International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), founded in September 1957, is a multinational federation of 49 national member organizations (NMO), each one representing the engineering and scientific societies concerned with automatic c ...

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as well as an associate fellow of the

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Selected bibliography

Books

#''Nonlinear and Adaptive Control Design'' (1995), co-authored with Ioannis Kanellakopoulos and Petar Kokotovic; John Wiley and Sons. #''Stabilization of Nonlinear Uncertain Systems'' (1998), co-authored with Hua Deng; Springer. #''Flow Control by Feedback'' (2002), co-authored with Ole Morten Aamo; Springer. #''Real-Time Optimization by Extremum Seeking Feedback'' (2003), co-authored with Kartik B. Ariyur; John Wiley and Sons. #''Control of Turbulent and Magnetohydrodynamic Channel Flows'' (2007), co-authored with Rafael Vazquez; Birkhauser. #''Boundary Control of PDEs: A Course on Backstepping Designs'' (2008), co-authored with Andrey Smyshlyaev; SIAM. #''Delay Compensation for Nonlinear, Adaptive, and PDE Systems'' (2009); Birkhauser. #''Adaptive Control of Parabolic PDEs'' (2010), co-authored with Andrey Smyshlyaev; Princeton University Press. #''Stochastic Averaging and Stochastic Extremum Seeking'' (2012), co-authored with Shu-Jun Liu; Springer. #''Nonlinear Control Under Nonconstant Delays'' (2013), co-authored with Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis; SIAM. #''Predictor Feedback for Delay Systems: Implementations and Approximations'' (2017), coauthored with Iasson Karafyllis; Birkhauser, #''Model-Free Stabilization by Extremum Seeking'' (2017), co-authored with Alexander Scheinker; Springer. #''Input-to-State Stability for PDEs'' (2018), co-authored with Iasson Karafyllis; Springer. #''Delay-Adaptive Linear Control'' (2019), co-authored with Yang Zhu; Princeton University Press. #''Materials Phase Change PDE Control & Estimation: From Additive Manufacturing to Polar Ice'' (2020), co-authored with Shumon Koga; Springer. #''PDE Control of String-Actuated Motion'' (2022); co-authored with Ji Wang, Princeton University Press. #''Extremum Seeking through Delays and PDEs'' (2022), co-authored with Tiago Roux Oliveira, SIAM. #''Traffic Congestion Control by PDE Backstepping'' (2023), co-authored with Huan Yu, Birkhäuser.

References

External links

Home page of Miroslav Krstic
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