Miroslav Krstic - Biography#

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 has also served as Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at UCSD for the 14-year period from 2012 - 2026. 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 IEEE, IFAC, ASME, SIAM, AIAA, AAAS, IET (UK) - 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 Miller Distinguished Visiting Professorship and 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.

Krstic serves as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and has served as Editor-in-Chief of Systems & Control Letters, Senior Editor in Automatica, editor of two Springer book series, and as Vice President for Technical Activities of the IEEE Control Systems Society.

He has coauthored nineteen books on adaptive, nonlinear, and stochastic control, extremum seeking, control of PDE systems including turbulent flows, and control of delay systems.