CELEBRATING A PIONEER AND MENTOR IN CONTROL SYSTEMS
This year marked the 60th birthday of a transformative figure in our field, Professor Miroslav Krstic of UC San Diego. The foundations of control systems have been expanded by his pioneering developments of adaptive nonlinear control, extremum seeking, PDE backstepping control, and predictors for delay systems. He has also dedicated 30 years to raising our field’s standards through editorship and mentoring the next generation.
To honor Krstic, his mentees organized a workshop entitled “Control and Adaptation: Imagine What’s Next—Celebrating the 60th Birthday of Miroslav Krstic” at the 63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2024) in Milan, Italy (https://www.insync-lab.org/cdc2024-session). A 10-minute video of his thanks to each of the workshop speakers is at this link (https://youtu.be/M1X6eDJCaAY?si=QaBtoF8x1qJO6nKm).
Artificial intelligence was used by several speakers to roast Krstic, including a final surprise, an uproarious AI-generated 2-minute blues anthem that makes good-natured fun of his research, service, and guitar hobby (https://youtu.be/_uPCvoy56_8?si=Sd10IaDByBGvpWcW).
● Organizers:
Mamadou Diagne, Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis, Shuxia Tang, Huan Yu, Tiago Roux Oliveira, Rafael Vazquez and Iasson Karafyllis
● Speakers:
Tamer Başar (U. Illinois)
Jean-Michel Coron (U. Sorbonne)
Rafael Vazquez (U. Seville)
Huan Yu (Hong Kong U. Science & Technology)
Jean Auriol (Supelec-Paris)
Scott Moura (UC Berkeley)
Thomas Meurer (Karlsruhe Inst. Technology)
Shumon Koga (U. Kobe and Honda)
Nicolas Espitia (U. Lille)
Yuanyuan Shi (UC San Diego)
Iasson Karafyllis (National Tech. U. of Athens)
Nikos Bekiaris-Liberis (U. Crete)
Delphine Bresch-Pietri (Mines-Paris)
Andrey Polyakov (INRIA, France)
Mrdjan Jankovic (Ford, SWRI)
Tiago Roux Oliveira (State U. of Rio de Janeiro)
Jorge Poveda (UC San Diego)
Alex Scheinker (Los Alamos National Lab)
Yang Zhu (Zhejiang U.)
Ji Wang (Xiamen U.)
Tiago Roux Oliveira mastered PDE backstepping and took extremum seeking to infinite dimension, in a body of work that is beyond belief for its comprehensiveness and the resulting nearly symphonic beauty.
