Starting in the early 2020s and every three years thereafter, IFAC Technical Committee 2.2 confers two Lifetime Achievement Awards: The “System Structure and Control Lifetime Achievement Award,” and the “Delay Systems Lifetime Achievement Award.” Each award may be presented to up to three individuals who have demonstrated outstanding scientific contributions in the respective areas, as well as sustained engagement in IFAC activities—particularly those of TC 2.2.
The 2025 Awards were presented on 1 July 2025, in Paris, during a ceremony held at the gala dinner of the Joint Conference “9th IFAC Symposium on System Structure and Control, 19th IFAC Workshop on Time Delay Systems, and 2nd IFAC Workshop on Control of Complex Systems.”
The “System Structure and Control Lifetime Achievement Award” was received by
- Anna Maria Perdon, “For her contributions to the development of methods and techniques in the geometric approach to the theory of systems over rings and singular systems”
The “Delay Systems Lifetime Achievement Award” was received by (listed alphabetically by surname):
- Keqin Gu, “For his contributions to the stability analysis of time-delay systems”
- Miroslav Krstic, “For pioneering contributions in delay compensation for nonlinear systems and PDEs, adaptive control of delay systems, and extremum seeking under delays”
- Vladimir Rasvan, “For his contributions to the theory of stability as applied to systems with time delays and distributed parameters”
The 2021-2022 Awards were presented on 29 September 2022, in Montreal, during a ceremony held at the gala dinner of the Joint Conference “8th IFAC Symposium on System Structure and Control, 17th IFAC Workshop on Time Delay Systems, and 5th IFAC Workshop on Linear Parameter Varying Systems.”
The “System Structure and Control Lifetime Achievement Award” was received by (listed alphabetically by surname):
- Michel Fliess, “For groundbreaking contributions to systems theory and control in finite and infinite dimensions rooted in algebraic systems structure analysis”
- Vladimir Kucera, “for his fundamental contribution to the parameterization of all stabilizing controllers
The “Delay Systems Lifetime Achievement Award”, announced in 2021, was received by (listed alphabetically by surname):
- Emilia Fridman, “For contributions to delayed and sampled-data control of ordinary and partial differential equations”
- Vladimir L. Kharitonov, “For his pioneering contributions to stability analysis and control of time-delay systems
- Gabor Stepan, “For his contributions to theoretical advances and engineering applications of time delay systems, and for his efforts in building bridges among various academic communities”
