Emilia Fridman

Emilia Fridman is a Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, specializing in time-delay systems, networked control systems, and distributed parameter systems. Her work bridges robust control, singular perturbations, and nonlinear control, with over 200 journal papers and three monographs.

• PhD in Mathematics from Voronezh State University (1986)
• Highly Cited Researcher (2014) and IEEE/IFAC Fellow
• Recipient of the IFAC Harold Chestnut Prize (2023) and Kadar Family Award (2021)

Her research focuses on stability analysis and control design for systems with delays, including sampled-data control, networked systems under communication constraints, and predictor-based methods for input delays. She has developed discretized Lyapunov functionals and descriptor system approaches to address robustness in time-delay systems.

Recent publications emphasize finite-dimensional control of PDEs, event-triggered control, and extremum seeking with delays. Her group has secured grants from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) and collaborates globally on distributed control and stochastic systems.

Scientific Awards:

• IFAC Harold Chestnut Control Engineering Textbook Prize 2023
• IEEE Fellow (2014)
• IFAC Delay Systems Life Time Achievement Award (2021)
• Stanford University Top 0.03% in Industrial Engineering & Automation (2022)

Advising: Mentored over 15 PhD students including Kun Liu, Anton Selivanov, and Rami Katz. Her editorial roles include Automatica and SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization.