Miroslav Krstic

Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Nonlinear, adaptive, and robust controls for aircraft engines, helicopters, satellites, and automotive systems.

Professor Krstic works on many applications of nonlinear, adaptive, and infinite dimensional control theory. Early in his career he developed controllers for two types of instabilitiesin jet engines: compressor rotating stall and combustor thermoacoustic oscillations. More recently, he has worked on flow control problems for aerodynamic drag reduction, control problems in fusion reactors, control of magnetohydrodynamic instabilities in plasmas,and optimization of flight of groups of aircraft. His past activities also include control of blade-vortex interaction on helicopter rotors, control of satellites and underwater vehicles, and control of biological and chemical reactors.

Capsule Bio:
Miroslav Krstic 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 UCSD in 1997. Krstic has received numerous honors for his work, including the NSF Career Award, the ONR Young Investigator Award, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Krstic is a Fellow of IEEE. He has published three books on nonlinear, adaptive, and flow control. He has served as Vice President of the IEEE Control Systems Society and as Associate Editor to four journals.