Dragoslav D. Šiljak is a professor of Electrical Engineering at Santa Clara University

Santa Clara University

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, where he holds the title of Benjamin and Mae Swig University Professor. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1963 from the University of Belgrade

University of Belgrade

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He is the author of the book 'Decentralized Control of Complex Systems', Academic Press (1991).

In 1981 Šiljak became Fellow

IEEE Fellow

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 of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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 (IEEE), "for contributions to the theory of nonlinear control and large-scale systems". In 2010 he received the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award

Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award

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 from the American Automatic Control Council

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, "for his fundamental contributions to the theory of large-scale systems, decentralized control, and parametric approach to robust stability". He is also International Fellow of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

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