Miroslav Krstic, a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC San Diego, has been selected as the 2023 recipient of the Bode Lecture Prize, the highest award given by the IEEE Control Systems Society.
Krstic serves as senior associate vice chancellor for research for UC San Diego, and holds the Daniel L. Alspach Endowed Chair in Dynamic Systems and Control. He opened up a whole new area of research in control theory by reviving what are known as extremum seeking algorithms. Krstic’s advances made it possible to better conduct chemical analysis of rocks on the Mars rover Curiosity. They also have helped achieve a 200-fold increase in area density in the microchips that run smartphones, resulting in a multi-billion dollar impact for the semiconductor photolithography industry.
He has made transformational contributions to partial differential equations control, nonlinear delay systems, extremum seeking, adaptive control, stochastic nonlinear stabilization, and their industrial applications – including everything from stabilizing stop-and-go motion in congested traffic to estimating the state of health of batteries for electric vehicles and mobile phones.
“Henrik Bode was the founding thinker of control systems as a field that straddles technology and theory,” said Krstic. “The Bode Lecture should inspire the community about the future of the field. No one has achieved this as memorably as Peter Kokotovic in 1991, with his “Joy of Feedback” lecture. He showcased my first result in that lecture, helped launch my career, and this is what makes my own Bode Lecture task for 2023 not only daunting but also special.”
Krstic has received several lifetime achievement recognitions. In 2022, he was named the inaugural recipient of two awards: the biennial A.V. “Bal” Balakrishnan Research Award for Scientific Excellence in Research in the Mathematics of Systems and the triennial Ruth Curtain Award for Distributed Parameter Systems from the International Federation for Automatic Control. In 2021, he received the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award; in 2019, the Reid Prize from the Society for Industrial Mathematics and the Nonlinear Control Systems Award from the International Federation for Automatic Control; and in 2017 the Oldenburger Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Krstic also is Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, the International Federation of Automatic Control, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the UK’s Institution of Engineering and Technology, as well as associate fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
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