1989 – M.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Frunze Polytechnic Institute, Frunze, USSR
1992 – Ph.D., Control Engineering, Academy of Science of Kyrgyz Republic, Bishkek
Research Interests
Sampled-data control and signal processing (both time- and event-triggered).
Time-delay systems (especially, dead-time compensation).
Preview control and estimation.
Internal-model control.
Control of multi-agent systems.
Classical and modern frequency-domain methods, including design with H₂ and H∞ criteria
Guest Appointments
Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion (1994–1997)
Sabbatical leaves:
– Universiteit Twente, the Netherlands (2004–05)
– Lunds universitet, Sweden (2012–13)
– Politecnico di Milano, Italy (Winter 2020–21)
– Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, the Netherlands (Winter 2022–23)
Public Professional Activities
The Israeli Association for Automatic Control, President (since 2021)
Editorial responsibilities:
– associate editor for the IEEE Control Systems Letters (2017–21)
– associate editor for the European Journal of Control (2013–18)
– associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2010–13)
– member of the editorial board for the IET Control Theory and Applications (2007–13)
Selected Publications
L. Mirkin, H. Rotstein and Z. J. Palmor, “H² and H∞ Design of Sampled-Data Systems Using Lifting. Part I: General Framework and Solutions. Part II: Properties of Systems in the Lifted Domain,” SIAM J. Control Optim., 38, no. 1, pp. 175–218, 1999
L. Mirkin and N. Raskin, “Every Stabilizing Dead-Time Controller Has an Observer–Predictor-Based Structure,” Automatica, 39, no. 10, pp. 1747–1754, 2003
L. Mirkin, “On the extraction of dead-time controllers and estimators from delay-free parametrizations,” IEEE Trans. Automat. Control, 48, no. 4, pp. 543–553, 2003
G. Tadmor and L. Mirkin, “H∞ Control and Estimation with Preview—Part I: Matrix ARE Solutions in Continuous Time, Part II: Fixed-Size ARE Solutions in Discrete Time,” IEEE Trans. Automat. Control, 50, no. 1, pp. 19–40, 2005
G. Meinsma and L. Mirkin, “H∞ Control of Systems with Multiple I/O Delays via Decomposition to Adobe Problems,” IEEE Trans. Automat. Control, 50, no. 2, pp. 199–211, 2005
G. Meinsma and L. Mirkin, “Sampling from a System-Theoretic Viewpoint: Part I—Concepts and Tools, Part II—Noncausal Solutions,” IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, 58, no. 7, pp. 3578–3606, 2010
M. Kristalny and L. Mirkin, “Input/Output Stabilization in the General Two-Sided Model Matching Setup,” SIAM J. Control Optim., 50, no. 3, pp. 1413–1438, 2012
Y. Levinson and L. Mirkin, “L² Optimization in Discrete FIR Estimation: Exploiting State-Space Structure,” SIAM J. Control Optim., 51, no. 1, pp. 419–441, 2013
D. Madjidian and L. Mirkin, “Distributed Control with Low-Rank Coordination,” IEEE Trans. Control of Network Systems, 1, no. 1, pp. 53–63, 2014
L. Mirkin, “Intermittent Redesign of Analog Controllers via the Youla Parameter,” IEEE Trans. Automat. Control, 62, no. 4, pp. 1838–1851, 2017
A. Goldenshluger and L. Mirkin, “On Minimum-Variance Event-Triggered Control,” IEEE Control Syst. Lett., 1, no. 1, pp. 32–37, 2017
M. Braksmayer and L. Mirkin, “Discrete-Time H₂ Optimal Control under Intermittent and Lossy Communications,” Automatica, 103, pp. 180–188, 2019
L. Mirkin, “On Dead-Time Compensation in Repetitive Control,” IEEE Control Syst. Lett., 4, no. 4, pp. 791–796, 2020
L. Mi and L. Mirkin, “H∞ Event-Triggered Control with Performance Guarantees Vis-à-vis the Optimal Periodic Solution,” IEEE Trans. Automat. Control, 67, no. 1, pp. 63–74, 2022
G. Barkai, L. Mirkin, and D. Zelazo, “On the Internal Stability of Diffusively Coupled Multi-Agent Systems and the Dangers of Cancel Culture,” Automatica, 155, pp. 111158, 2023