Miroslav Krstić

Miroslav Krstić
Krstić in 2021
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
AwardsSee awards section
Scientific career
FieldsControl theory
InstitutionsUniversity of California, San Diego
Doctoral advisorPetar Kokotovic

Miroslav Krstić (Serbian Cyrillic: Мирослав Крстић) is an American control theorist and Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Krstić is also the director of the Center for Control Systems and Dynamics at UCSD and a Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Research.

In the list of notable researchers in systems and control, Krstić is the youngest. ScholarGPS ranks him as the world's top control theory author, among more than 750,000 in that field.