The USC Viterbi School of Engineering, following the recommendation of the Award’s Committee, is honored to announce Professor Miroslav Krstić of the University of California, San Diego as the inaugural winner of the A.V. Balakrishnan Award for Excellence in Scientific Research.
The Award is funded by the generous support of Ms. Sophia Balakrishnan in memory of her beloved husband Professor A.V. ‘Bal’ Balakrishnan, a well-known Professor and Researcher in the area of systems.
Professor Krstić was honored and gave an in-person lecture at USC on Tuesday, October 18, 2022. Photos from the inaugural A.V. ‘Bal’ Balakrishnan Awards Ceremony can be found here.
Biography: Dr. Miroslav Krstić received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1994. After two years as assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Maryland, he joined University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in 1997.
He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, holds the Alspach endowed chair, and is the founding director of the Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics at UCSD. He also serves as Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Research.
He is a fellow of SIAM, IEEE, IFAC, ASME, AAAS, IET, AIAA (AF), and the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. His awards include the Bellman, Reid, Oldenburger, Ragazzini, Chestnut, Paynter, Nyquist Lecture, IFAC Nonlinear Control, IFAC Ruth Curtain DPS, Axelby, and Schuck honors.
He is a coauthor of 18 books and more than 400 journal papers on adaptive, nonlinear, and stochastic control, extremum seeking control of PDE systems including turbulent flows, and control of delay systems.
Awardee Special Lecture: An Odyssey through PDE Control with Constraints
The 2022 A.V. ‘Bal’ Balakrishnan Awards
Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center, EEB 132, University Park Campus
Tuesday, October 18th, 2022
