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).

[2] After mandatory military service, he received his 5-year BSc degree from University of Belgrade's School of Electrical Engineering in 1989, graduating in the top 1% of his class.

[5] He received his MSc in electrical engineering in 1992, and his PhD in 1995[3] (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][3] Krstić has contributed to control systems in electrical, mechanical, and aerospace engineering, as well as in mathematics and physics.