(1963) degrees from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Electrical Engineering, and his Ph.D. (1965) from the USSR Academy of Sciences (Institute of Automation and Remote Control), Moscow.
One of the center's achievements is a fully integrated cross-disciplinary graduate program for electrical and computer, mechanical and environmental, and chemical engineering fields.
At UC Santa Barbara his group developed constructive nonlinear control methods and applied them, with colleagues from MIT, Caltech and United Technologies Research Center, to new jet engine designs.
"[4] Kokotovic was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1996 for the development and applications of large-scale systems analysis and adaptive control theory.
[4] His former students include Joe Chow, Charles Robert Hadlock, Petros A. Ioannou, Hassan Khalil, and Miroslav Krstić.