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Petar V. Kokotovic (Serbian Cyrillic: Петар В. Кокотовић) is professor emeritus in the College of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He has made contributions in the areas of adaptive control, singular perturbation techniques, and nonlinear control especially the backstepping stabilization method.