Malcolm C. Smith

Malcolm Clive Smith is a British electrical engineer. He is a professor of control engineering at the University of Cambridge. He is notable for his contributions to feedback control and systems theory. He is also the inventor of the inerter, used in mechanical network synthesis.

Career Smith studied at the University of Cambridge (BA 1978, MPhil 1979, PhD 1982); his doctoral thesis was entitled "A Generalised Nyquist/Root-Locus Theory for Multi-Loop Feedback Systems". He worked in various research and academic posts, becoming an assistant professor at Ohio State University. In 1990, he moved to the University of Cambridge where he became a professor of control engineering and a fellow of Gonville and Caius College.

As of early 2014, Smith is head of the Control Group within the University of Cambridge's Department of Engineering. A Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering, A Fellowship of the IEEE, awarded in 2002.