Miroslav Krstic#
| Membership Number: | 7451 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | ENGINEERING |
| Affiliated section(s): | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://flyingv.ucsd.edu |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-5523-941X |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/miroslav-krstic-1b4957104/ |
| Publication Link: | https://flyingv.ucsd.edu/krstic/publications-krstic.htm |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 - 2026 Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, UC San Diego
- 2015 - present Distinguished Professor, UCSD
- 2009 - present Daniel L. Alspach Endowed Chair, UCSD
- 2005 - present Founding Director, Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics, UCSD
- 2000 - present Full Professor, Dept Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCSD
- 1997 - 1999 Associate Professor, Dept. MAE, UC San Diego
- 1995 - 1997 Assistant Professor, Dept. Mechanical Eng. and Inst. Syst. Research, Univ. Maryland
Fields of Scholarship
- Control of traffic flows
- Adaptive and nonlinear control
- Control of systems modeled by partial differential equations
- Stochastic nonlinear control
- Control of fluid flows
- Extremum seeking control
- Delay systems
- Control of magnetic-confinement fusion reactors
- Machine learning (neural operators) for control of infinite-dimensional systems
- Control of charged particle accelerators
Honours and Awards
- 2025 Roger W. Brockett Control Systems Award, IEEE (highest IEEE award for control systems)
- 2025 Fellow-Ambassador of French CNRS (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique)
- 2025 IFAC TC Time Delay Systems Lifetime Achievement, triennial, International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
- 2023 Bode Lecture Prize (highest award of IEEE Control Systems Society)
- 2023 IFAC TC Award for Adaptive and Learning Systems Award, triennial, International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
- 2022 IFAC TC Award for Distributed Parameter Systems Award, triennial, inaugural recipient, International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
- 2021 Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award (highest recognition in the United States for achievements in control systems), American Automatic Control Council (AACC)
- 2019 W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize (for lifetime achievements in control theory and differential equations), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
- 2019 IFAC TC Award for Nonlinear Control Systems Award, triennial, International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
- 2018 Foreign Member, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- 2017 Rufus Oldenburger Medal (lifetime achievement in control), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
- 2017 John Ragazzini Education Award, American Automatic Control Council
- 2017 Fellow of AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
- 2016 Henry Paynter Outstanding Researcher Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
- 2015 Fellow of SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)
- 2014 Harold Chestnut Textbook Prize, triennial, for the book Boundary Control of PDEs: A Course on Backstepping Designs, International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
- 2014 Fellow of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
- 2008 Fellow of IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control)
- 2001 Fellow of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
- 1998 George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award, IEEE Trans. Automatic Control
