Miroslav Krstić
Miroslav Krstić (Serbian Cyrillic: "Мирослав Крстић") is a Serbian-American control theorist and Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, San Diego (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 Pirot, Serbia (then part of SFR Yugoslavia). He received a BSc degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Belgrade in 1989 and a MSc in 1992. He completed his PhD at the University of California, Santa Barbara  in 1994. Krstić taught as a Professor in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland from 1995 to 1997. He began his career at the University of California, San Diego (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 Distinguished Professor. Work. Krstić has made significant contributions to adaptive control, nonlinear control, stochastic systems, extremum seeking, and boundary control of partial  differential equations. His control designs have had impact in several processes, including oil drilling, nuclear fusion, and semiconductor manufacturing. In 2015, Krstić's colleagues published a monograph on the latest innovations in nonlinear delay systems, as a tribute to his research. Krstić is a co-author of more than 15 books and 400 journal papers. He is among the most highly cited researchers in the field of control systems according to Scopus and Google Scholar, with an h-index well over 100. His 1995 research monograph "Nonlinear and Adaptive Control Design" is one of the two most 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 the recipient of numerous awards, including: Krstic is Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, International Federation of Automatic Control, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Institution of Engineering and Technology, American Association for the Advancement of Science as well as an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.