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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2017 - Rufus Oldenburger Medal, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2015 - SIAM Fellow For seminal contributions to control of nonlinear and distributed parameter systems.
  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 2008 - Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
  • 2002 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to nonlinear and adaptive control.

Overview

Miroslav Krstic is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research spans the field of engineering with a particular focus on control and systems engineering. The subfields in which they have contributed include computational theory and mathematics, computer networks and communications, numerical analysis, and statistical and nonlinear physics.

Their main research topics involve:

  • Stability and controllability of differential equations
  • Advanced control systems optimization
  • Extremum seeking control systems
  • Adaptive control of nonlinear systems
  • Advanced mathematical modeling in engineering
  • Stability and control of uncertain systems
  • Nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation

Miroslav Krstic's recent publications include:

  • "A dynamic high-gain design for prescribed-time regulation of nonlinear systems," 2020, Automatica
  • "Stochastic Nonlinear Prescribed-Time Stabilization and Inverse Optimality," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • "Prescribed-Time Output-Feedback Control of Stochastic Nonlinear Systems," 2022, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • "Adaptive-gain observer-based stabilization of stochastic strict-feedback systems with sensor uncertainty," 2020, Automatica
  • "Mean-Nonovershooting Control of Stochastic Nonlinear Systems," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

They frequently co-author with Iasson Karafyllis, Shumon Koga, Tiago Roux Oliveira, Yasamin Mostofi, and Thomas Parisini.

The scientist publishes in various venues, with the most frequent being:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • Automatica
  • IFAC-PapersOnLine
  • IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Among their book publications, they have authored several titles with Princeton University Press, including multiple editions of "Delay-Adaptive Linear Control" (2020) and "PDE Control of String-Actuated Motion" (2022). Publications also include works with Systems & Control such as "Traffic Congestion Control by PDE Backstepping" (2022) and "Materials Phase Change PDE Control & Estimation" (2020). Contributions with the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics include "Extremum Seeking Through Delays and PDEs" (2022) and "Robust Adaptive Control" (2025).

Throughout their career, Miroslav Krstic has received several recognitions, including:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2017)
  • Rufus Oldenburger Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2017)
  • SIAM Fellow for contributions to control of nonlinear and distributed parameter systems (2015)
  • Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2014)
  • Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) (2008)
  • IEEE Fellow for contributions to nonlinear and adaptive control (2002)

Best Publications

  • Nonlinear and adaptive control design

    Miroslav Krstic;Petar V. Kokotovic;Ioannis Kanellakopoulos

  • Boundary Control of PDEs: A Course on Backstepping Designs

    Miroslav Krstic

  • Real-Time Optimization by Extremum-Seeking Control

    Kartik B. Ariyur;Miroslav Krstic

  • Brief Stability of extremum seeking feedback for general nonlinear dynamic systems

    Miroslav Krstić;Hsin-Hsiung Wang

  • Delay Compensation for Nonlinear, Adaptive, and PDE Systems

    Miroslav Krstić

  • Time-varying feedback for regulation of normal-form nonlinear systems in prescribed finite time☆

    Yongduan Song;Yujuan Wang;Yujuan Wang;John Holloway;Miroslav Krstic

  • Adaptive nonlinear control without overparametrization

    M. Kristic;I. Kanellakopoulos;P. V. Kokotovic

  • Stabilization of stochastic nonlinear systems driven by noise of unknown covariance

    Hua Deng;M. Krstic;R.J. Williams

  • Stabilization of Nonlinear Uncertain Systems

    Miroslav Krstic;J. W. Modestino;H. Deng;A. Fettweis

  • Backstepping boundary control for first-order hyperbolic PDEs and application to systems with actuator and sensor delays

    Miroslav Krstic;Andrey Smyshlyaev

  • Stochastic nonlinear stabilization—I: a backstepping design

    Hua Deng;Miroslav Krstić

  • Closed-form boundary State feedbacks for a class of 1-D partial integro-differential equations

    A. Smyshlyaev;M. Krstic

  • Prescribed-Time Consensus and Containment Control of Networked Multiagent Systems

    Yujuan Wang;Yongduan Song;David J. Hill;Miroslav Krstic

  • Output-feedback stochastic nonlinear stabilization

    Hua Deng;M. Krstic

  • Real-Time Optimization by Extremum-Seeking Control: Ariyur/Extremum Seeking

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  • Backstepping observers for a class of parabolic PDEs

    Andrey Smyshlyaev;Miroslav Krstic

  • Performance improvement and limitations in extremum seeking control

    Miroslav Krstić

  • Adaptive Control of Parabolic PDEs

    Andrey Smyshlyaev;Miroslav Krstić

  • PID tuning using extremum seeking: online, model-free performance optimization

    N.J. Killingsworth;M. Krstic

  • Robust dynamic positioning of ships with disturbances under input saturation

    Jialu Du;Xin Hu;Miroslav Krstić;Yuqing Sun

  • Nonlinear design of adaptive controllers for linear systems

    M. Krstic;I. Kanellakopoulos;P.V. Kokotovic

  • IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL

    P. J. Antsaklis;Elizabeth Kovács;E. Chong

  • Inverse optimal design of input-to-state stabilizing nonlinear controllers

    M. Krstic;Zhong-Hua Li

  • Output-feedback stabilization of stochastic nonlinear systems driven by noise of unknown covariance (

    Hua Deng;Miroslav Krstić

Frequent Co-Authors

Iasson Karafyllis
Iasson Karafyllis National Technical University of Athens
Rafael Vazquez
Rafael Vazquez University of Seville
Petar V. Kokotovic
Petar V. Kokotovic University of California, Santa Barbara
Ole Morten Aamo
Ole Morten Aamo Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Beibei Ren
Beibei Ren Texas Tech University
Ioannis Kanellakopoulos
Ioannis Kanellakopoulos Oraton Consulting
Qing-Chang Zhong
Qing-Chang Zhong Illinois Institute of Technology
Françoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue
Françoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue University of Paris-Saclay
Scott J. Moura
Scott J. Moura University of California, Berkeley
Bao-Zhu Guo
Bao-Zhu Guo University of the Witwatersrand

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