IFAC TC Award: Delay Systems Life Time Achievement Awards in 2025

The objective of this TC Award, sponsored by the IFAC C 2.2 “Linear Control Systems”, is to award individuals who have made, throughout their career, important research contributions in the area of delay systems, either of a fundamental or of an applied nature, and who have been strongly involved in IFAC activities, including but not limited to initiating and/or organizing IFAC meetings and participating in IFAC committees at international level, and, in particular, in the activities of the TC 2.2.

Keqin Gu

Southern Illinois University

For his contributions to the stability analysis of time-delay systems

Miroslav Krstic

University of California San Diego

For pioneering contributions in delay compensation for nonlinear systems and PDEs, adaptive control of delay systems, and extremum seeking under delays

Vladimir Rasvan

University of Craiova

For his contributions to the theory of stability as applied to systems with time delays and distributed parameters

IFAC Harold Chestnut Control Engineering Textbook Prize in 2023

This award, named after IFAC’s first president, recognizes the author(s) of the textbook(s) judged to have most contributed to the education of control engineers.


Emilia Fridman,
Introduction to Time-Delay Systems: Analysis and Design,
Birkhäuser, 2014.

IFAC TC Award: Delay Systems Life Time Achievement Awards in 2021

The objective of this TC Award, sponsored by the IFAC C 2.2 “Linear Control Systems”, is to award individuals who have made, throughout their career, important research contributions in the area of delay systems, either of a fundamental or of an applied nature, and who have been strongly involved in IFAC activities, including but not limited to initiating and/or organizing IFAC meetings and participating in IFAC committees at international level, and, in particular, in the activities of the TC 2.2.

Emilia Fridman

Tel Aviv University

For contributions to delayed and sampled-data control of ordinary and partial differential equations

Vladimir L. Kharitonov

Saint-Petersburg State University

For his pioneering contributions to stability analysis and control of time-delay systems

Gabor Stepan

Budapest University of Technology and Economics

For his contributions to theoretical advances and engineering applications of time delay systems, and for his efforts in building bridges among various academic communities