Dr. Dragan Nesic is currently an Australian Professorial Fellow funded by the Australian Research Council. He is an Associate Professor and Reader in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Melbourne. He has held an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany) in order to pursue research in Germany for a period of six months. He was awarded a PhD from Systems Engineering , RSISE, Australian National University, Canberra. He has held several postdoctoral positions: DEEE , The University of Melbourne, Australia; CESAME , Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain la Neuve, Belgium; and ECE , University of California in Santa Barbara, CA, USA. He is an associate editor for the following journals: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Automatica and Systems and Control Letters.
| Professor | Jul 2006 - present | Dept. Electrical and Electronic Engineering | The University of Melbourne |
| Australian Professorial Fellow | Jun 2004-present | Dept. Electrical and Electronic Engineering | The University of Melbourne |
| Alexander von Humboldt Fellow | Nov 2003-May 2004 | Bayreuth University, Bayreuth and Johan Wolfgang Goete University, Frankfurt, Germany | The University of Melbourne |
| Associate Professor and Reader | Jan 2003 - Jun 2006 | Dept. Electrical and Electronic Engineering | The University of Melbourne |
| Deputy Head of Department | Dec 2001-Nov 2003 | Dept. Electrical and Electronic Engineering | The University of Melbourne |
| Senior Lecturer | Jan 2001-Dec 2002 | Dept. Electrical and Electronic Engineering | The University of Melbourne |
| Lecturer | Jan 1999-Jan 2001 | Dept. Electrical and Electronic Engineering | The University of Melbourne |
| Research Fellow | Jan 1998-Feb 1999 | Electrical and Computer Engineering | University of California, Santa Barbara, USA |
| Postdoctoral Fellow | Apr 1997-Jan 1998 | CESAME | Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain la Neuve, Belgium |
| Research Fellow | Sep 1996-Apr 1997 | Dept. Electrical and Electronic Engineering | The University of Melbourne |
| Teaching Assistant | Jan 1991-Nov 1992 | Faculty of Mechanical Engineering | The University of Belgrade, Belgrade, former Yugoslavia |
| Semi-plenary Lecture D. Nesic, "Networked control systems: an emulation based approach to controller design", NOLCOS, Pretoria, South Africa, 2007. |
| Best Poster Award (presented by P. Dower) P.M. Dower, P. Farrell and D. Nesic, "An application of extemum seeking in optical amplifier control", the 45th Conference on Decision and Control, 2006. |
| Finalist, Best Student Paper Award (with my PhD student M. Tabbara) M. Tabbara, D. Nesic and A. R. Teel, "Input-output stability of wireless networked control systems", the joint 44th Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, Seville, 2005. |
| Australian Professorial Fellow, 2004-2009 (awarded by Australian Research Council). |
| Humboldt Fellow, 2003-2004 (awarded by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany). |
| Fellow of IEAust, from 2005 (Institute of Engineers Australia). |
| Senior Member of IEEE, from 2002 (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). |
| Finalist, Best Paper Award, D. Nesic and P. Dower, "Further results on preservation of stability under sampling", ICARV, Singapore, 2000. |
| $314,000 | 2004-2009 | D. Nesic and Ying Tan | "Finite-dimensional Sampled-data Control of Nonlinear Spatially Distributed Parameter Systems" | Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship (Ying Tan) and ARC Discovery Grant |
| $914,000 | 2004-2009 | D. Nesic | "New research directions in the area of nonlinear sampled-data systems" | Australian Professorial Fellowship and ARC Discovery Grant |
| Euro 13,500 | 2003-2004 | D. Nesic | "Discretization and redesign of continuous-time nonlinear controllers for digital implementation" | Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship |
| $30,000 | 2003 | D. Nesic (with 30 other researchers) | "Research Network on Control, Dynamics and Systems" | ARC Special Research Initiative - seed funding |
| $243,000 | 2003-2005 | D.Nesic, I.M.Y.Mareels & P.M.Dower | "Nonlinear systems with disturbances: analysis, controller design and tradeoffs" | Discovery ARC Grant |
| $50,000 | 2002 | D.Nesic & P.M.Dower | "Tools for analysis and controller design for nonlinear systems with disturbances" | Discovery ARC Grant |
| $183,000 | 2001-2003 | D.Nesic | "Nonlinear sampled-data control systems and numerical methods" | Large ARC Grant |
| $20,000 | 2000 | D.Nesic | "Analysis of properties of time-varying systems with disturbances via averaging" | Small ARC Grant |
| $160,000 | 1998-2000 | I.M.Y.Mareels & D.Nesic | "Control of nonlinear systems described by polynomial equations" | Large ARC Grant |
| BF 60,000 | 1997 | D.Nesic | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Program "Interuniversity Poles of Attraction" funded by the Belgian Government |
| $2,000 | 1997 | D.Nesic | Travel Grant | Linkoping University, Sweden |
| $3,000 | 1995 | D.Nesic | Travel Grant | Catholic University, Louvain la Neuve, Belgium |