Petar V. Kokotovic
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Petar V. Kokotovic (1936-) is a professor in the Department of Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara. He was born in Belgrade, Serbia. He received B.S. (1958) and M.S. (1963) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Belgrade, and a Ph.D. (1965) from the USSR Academy of Sciences (Institute of Automation and Remote Control), Moscow. He came to the U.S. in 1965, was a professor at the University of Illinois for 25 years and joined the University of California in 1991. He has made contributions in the areas of adaptive control, singular perturbation techniques and non-linear control (especially the back-stepping method).
He is a co-author (with M. Krstic and I. Kanellakopoulos) of the textbook Nonlinear and Adaptive Control Design, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1995; and several other books.
In 2002 he received the Richard E. Bellman award from the American Automatic Control Council. The citation reads: "For pioneering contributions to control theory and engineering, and for inspirational leadership as mentor, advisor, and lecturer over a period spanning four decades."
