Juraj V. Medanic

Professor Emeritus

Juraj V. Medanic, Ph.D., professor emeritus and former associate head for graduate studies in General Engineering, comes from the Mihailo Pupin Institute, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, where he was a senior scientist in the Systems Analysis Division of the Automation Laboratory and adjunct professor at the University of Belgrade. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Belgrade in 1970 and 1972. He was a Research Associate from 1967 to 1969, and a Visiting Research Associate Professor from 1976 to 1979 at the Coordinated Science Lab, University of Illinois, and a Research Associate at Technisches Hoogeschoole, Twente, the Netherlands in 1979.

Medanic managed industry-sponsored research and development projects in systems-analysis and supervised large-scale systems theory research.

At the University of Belgrade, he taught graduate level courses on optimal control theory, differential games and control of large-scale systems with multiple objectives. At Illinois he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in control systems design.

He has a joint appointment with the Coordinated Science Laboratory and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the university, and has organized graduate research in control theory and analysis and design of large-scale systems. He is a member of the International Federation on Automatic Control committee for theory. He is an associate editor, IFAC Journal Automatica, and has served as associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

Contact Information
Mailing Address:
117 Transportation Building MC-238
104 S. Mathews Ave.
Urbana IL 61801
Fax: (217) 244-5705
e-mail: jmedanic@uiuc.edu

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