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.
[4] He received his MSc in electrical engineering in 1992, and his PhD in 1995[2] (defended in December 1994), from University of California, Santa Barbara with Petar Kokotovic.
[61] Krstić has impacted technology development in extreme ultraviolet lithography in semiconductor manufacturing, advanced arresting gear on the newest aircraft carrier class Gerald Ford, the ChemCam laser-based spectroscopy on NASA Mars rover Curiosity, charged particle accelerators, oil drilling, nuclear fusion, and in Lithium-ion battery management systems.
AIRCRAFT CARRIERS: In 2014-2019, employed by General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (San Diego) as a consultant, Krstić led his 4 former PhD trainees, hired by GA (Drs.
G. Prior,[70] N. Ghods,[71] P. Frihauf,[72] C. Kinney[73]), in the control design and performance analysis for electromagnetic advanced arresting gear (AAG).
[79] OTHER DEVELOPMENTS FOR INDUSTRY AND GOVERNMENT: Statoil (Norway) and Krstić, with collaborators, implemented his adaptive PDE backstepping observers for downhole pressure on a 700-meter underbalanced drilling oil rig.
[80] Krstić, Bosch, and his students, under ARPA-E contract, developed Li-ion battery estimators[81][82] to reduce charging time to 15 min.
[86] With United Technologies, Krstić implemented ES to stabilize combustion[87] and compressor[88] instabilities in Pratt & Whitney's jet engines.
[90][91][92][93][94] In the list of eminent researchers in systems and control, Krstić is one of the recipients of the highest number of lifetime achievement awards.
His awards include[1][2] Krstić has contributed to control systems in electrical, mechanical, and aerospace engineering, as well as in mathematics and physics.