Miroslav Krstić

Miroslav Krstić
Krstic in 2025
Born (1964-09-14) 14 September 1964
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materUniversity of Belgrade BSc (1989)
University of California, Santa Barbara PhD (1994)
Known forPDE backstepping, extremum seeking
AwardsIEEE Roger W. Brockett Control Systems Award

Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award
IEEE Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize
SIAM W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize

ASME Rufus Oldenburger Medal
Scientific career
FieldsControl theory
InstitutionsUniversity of California, San Diego
Doctoral advisorPetar Kokotovic

Miroslav Krstić (Serbian Cyrillic: Мирослав Крстић) is an American control theorist, Distinguished Professor at University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Research. In the list of notable researchers in systems and control, he is the youngest. ScholarGPS ranks him as the world's top control theory author, among more than 750,000 in that field.