Petar V. Kokotovic

Petar V. Kokotovic (; born 1934) is professor emeritus in the College of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He has made contributions in the areas of adaptive control, singular perturbation techniques, and nonlinear control especially the backstepping stabilization method.

Biography Kokotovic was born in Belgrade in 1934. He received his B.S. (1958) and M.S. (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.

For his control systems contributions, Professor Kokotovic has been recognized with the triennial Quazza Medal from the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), the Control Systems Field Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the 2002 Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award from the American Automatic Control Council, with the citation "for pioneering contributions to control theory and engineering, and for inspirational leadership as mentor, advisor, and lecturer over a period spanning four decades."

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. He is a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Fellow of IEEE. His honors also include the D.C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award and two IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control outstanding paper awards.

Dr. Kokotovic has co-authored numerous papers and ten books. Member, National Academy of Engineering, 1996 IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal, IEEE, 2001 Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, American Automatic Control Council, 2002. Foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2011