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 .






