Background
Ljung, Lennart was born on September 13, 1946 in Malmö, Sweden.
Ljung, Lennart was born on September 13, 1946 in Malmö, Sweden.
Bachelor, Lund University, 1967. Master of Science in Engineering Physics, Lund Institute of Technology, 1970. Doctor of Philosophy in Automatic Control, Lund Institute of Technology, 1974.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Baltic State Technology University, 1996. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Uppsala University, 1998. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Universite de Technologie de Troyes, 2004.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 2004.
He is known for his pioneering research in system identification, and is regarded as a leading researcher in control theory. Lennart Ljung received the Bachelor of Arts in Russian Language and Mathematics 1967, the Master of Science He was a visiting researcher at Stanford University 1980-1981 and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1985-1986.
He was also Department Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University between 1981-1990.
He is currently the Director of the MOVIII Strategic Research Center at Linköping University. He has made extensive contributions to control theory, particularly in the area of system identification.
He has authored 10 books, over 150 international journal articles, over 200 international conference papers, and a widely used commercial software package for MATLAB called the System Identification Toolbox. Notable Honors and
Board member Swedish Research Council, since 2001. Fellow: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Hendryk W. Bode Lecture Prize 2003). Member: National Academy of Engineering (foreign associate), Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy Engineering Sciences (Chester Carlson Research Prize 1996), Hungarian Academy Engineering Sciences (honorary).