Emilia Fridman

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Emilia Fridman is an Israeli professor of Electrical Engineering at Tel Aviv University, known for her work in control theory, time-delay systems, and distributed-parameter systems. She was born in Kuibyshev, USSR, and studied mathematics at Kuibyshev State University, earning a BA and an MSc with distinction (1976–1981). She earned a PhD in mathematics from Voronezh State University in 1986, writing a thesis on integral manifolds of singularly perturbed time-delay systems under Vadim Strygin. She worked at universities in the USSR and became an associate professor by 1989. In 1992 she moved to Israel and joined Tel Aviv University, rising from Senior Researcher in 1993 to Full Professor in 2012.

Fridman’s research covers time-delay and sampled-data control, control of partial differential equations, and networked control. She has helped develop methods that allow control systems to handle long communication delays, introduced the descriptor method for time-delay systems, and advanced Lyapunov-Krasovskii techniques for fast-varying delays. She also used linear matrix inequalities to study robust control of PDEs and networked PDEs. Fridman is a Fellow of IEEE and has served as an editor for leading journals. Her honors include the 2021 IFAC Delay Systems Lifetime Achievement Award and being named a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher in 2014. She has published more than 170 journal papers and two books. She is married to mathematician Eugenii Shustin; they live in Tel Aviv with their son, and her brother Leonid Fridman is a professor in Mexico City.