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About Dragoslav D. Šiljak
- Dragoslav D.
- Šiljak (born 1933 in Belgrade, Serbia) is Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Santa Clara University, where he held the title of Benjamin and Mae Swig University Professor.
- He received a Ph.D.
- degree in Electrical Engineering in 1963 from the University of Belgrade.He is the author of the books Decentralized Control of Complex Systems (Academic Press,1991); Large-Scale Dynamic Systems: Stability and Structure (North Holland, 1978); Nonlinear Systems (Wiley, 1969); and Control of Complex Systems: Structural Constraints and Uncertainty (Springer, 2010, with A.
- I.
- Zecevic).In 1981 Šiljak became Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), "for contributions to the theory of nonlinear control and large-scale systems".
- In 2010 he received the Richard E.
- Bellman Control Heritage Award from the American Automatic Control Council, "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. Siljak was a member of the national water polo team of Yugoslavia that won the silver medal at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki, Finland.
- He was again a member of the team when it won the World Cup “Trofeo Italia” played in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, in 1953.
- Siljak played water polo for the club “Jadran“ of Hercegnovi when the club won The National Championship of Yugoslavia in 1958 and 1959.
- He was a member of the club “Partizan," Belgrade when the club won the Yugoslav Championship in 1963 and became the “Champion of Champions” by winning the Tournament of European Water Polo Champions in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1964.
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