Ioan Doré Landau (born July 1, 1938 in Bucharest) is a French scientist specialized in automatic control.

He is notably the author of numerous algorithms known as "Model Reference Approach" for adaptive control and identification of systems.

[3] From 1968, Landau won the Grand Gold Medal at the Vienna Inventions Exhibition (Austria) for his patent on variable frequency control of asynchronous motors.

[3] During his career, he directed more than 40 doctoral theses, in France and in collaboration with various universities around the world, and participated in numerous international conferences, several of which he chaired.

[3][6] In June 1998, the CNRS organized in his honour an international conference entitled "Perspectives in Control - Theory and Applications" .