Milić Stojić Full Professor of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, was born in February 27, 1940 in U\v zice, by father Radoje and mother Kosara, born Cerović. He completed his elementary and grammar school in U\v zice. In the academic 1958/59 year he enrolled the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, where he graduated in January 1963. In 1963, he enrolled the postgraduate studies at the Electrical Engineering Faculty, and obtained his M.Sc. degree by defending his M.Sc. thesis entitled An Approach to Solving the Sensitivity Problem in Control Systems. From the University of Belgrade, he obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1967 with the thesis entitled Analysis and Design of Nonlinear Control Systems Utilizing the Algebraic Criteria of Asymptotic Stability, defended also at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. The main results of his Ph.D. thesis were published in 1969 in two long papers in the renowned scientific journal Avtomatika i Telemekhanika, published by the Soviet Academy of Science (USSR) and later on in the journal Automation and Remote Control, published in USA as a cover-to-cover translation of Avtomatika i Telemekhanika. An abridged version of the thesis was also published in Russian as a monograph, edited by the Publication of Electrical Engineering Faculty in Belgrade.

After graduation, from February to October 1963, he was with the Institute for Nuclear Science in Vinča, Belgrade. Since October 1963, he is with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, where he has been promoted to the academic positions Teaching Assistant, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Full Professor in 1963, 1969, 1975, and 1980, respectively. He taught courses in automatic control at the undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the electrical engineering faculties of universities in Belgrade, Niš, Banja Luka, and Sarajevo (Republic of Srpska), at the Faculty of Technical Science in Novi Sad and the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Kragujevac, and at the High Military Academy in žarkovo (Belgrade). In 1980, 1984, and 1988, he spent several months at the Physics Department, University of Birmingham (UK), in the frame of joint research program. He delivered numerous invited lectures at conferences, universities, and scientific institutes of Yugoslavia and abroad at the Manchester University (UK), Moscow Aviation Institute, and Institute of Control Science (Moscow). He also delivered lectures at the Autumn School in Computational Intelligence and Information Technologies held at the Faculty of Electronics in Niš.

At the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, in three two-year election periods he was the head of the Department of Automation and in two four- year election periods the head of the Division of Electronics, Telecommunication, and Automation. In one four-year election period he was the head of the Council of Donor Services at the Republic Assembly of Science. Ten years he was the head of the Council of Experts in Electrical Engineering at the University of Belgrade. In one four-year election period he was the member of Administrative Committee of Institute for Nuclear Sciences "Vinča". As a head of program committee, he organized over 20 conferences of ETAN (Electronic, Telecommunication, Automation, and Nuclear Engineering) and in two four-year election periods, from 1992 to 2001, he was the president of the Yugoslav Society of Electronics, Telecommunication, Computers, Automation, and Nuclear Engineering (ETRAN), where he is presently a member of the Society Presidency. He is the full member of the Serbian Scientific Society and until 2002 he was the secretary of its Technical Department. Professor Stojić is the full member of the Engineering Academy of Serbia and Montenegro.

Professor Stojić is married, his wife Radmila sons Radoje and Đorđe, and daughter Borjana are all graduated electrical engineers. He has two granddaughters Milena (7) and Milica (baby).

Professor Stojić was the Associate Editor of Automatica, the journal of the International Association of Automatic Control (IFAC) and the Editor-in-Chief of Publication of Electrical Engineering Faculty, Series: Electronics, Telecommunication, and Automation, the journal of Electrical Engineering Faculty in Belgrade. While he was the secretary of the Serbian Scientific Society, he was the Editor-in-Chief of its journal Scientific Review: Science and Engineering. At the present, he is the member of the editorial boards of FACTA UNIVERSITATIS, Series: Electronics and Energetic, journal of the University of Niš, Vojnotehički Glasnik, and guest editor of Electronics, journal of the Electrical Engineering Faculty in Banja Luka (Republic of Srpska).

For his outstanding merits on the field of science, education, and results achieved in education of professionals and scientists, he was awarded with the Gold Wreath Labor Medal, Charter and Medallion of University of Niš, and Greater Charter and Medallion of ETRAN.

There are many awards that Professor Stojić received for his outstanding scientific and professional contributions in his papers that he published in scientific journals or presented at international and domestic conferences. For these activities he also received a number of prizes: October Reward of the City of Belgrade for mathematics and technical science, Award of the International Conference of IFIP (International Federation of Information Processing), together with Professor Stanoje Bingulac, for the best paper presented at the conference, three awards "Professor Dušan Mitrović" for the best paper presented at the ETRAN conferences. Together with Professor Slobodan Vukosavić, he received the Award "Professor Branko Raković" for the best papers presented in international scientific journals, and the Diploma of Tehnika journal.

For outstanding engineering achievements, he received the Decoration of Military Merits from president of Yugoslavia and Tesla's Award for Scientific Merit, together with Professor Slobodan Vukosavić.

Professor Stojić was very active in cooperation with other faculties, institutes, and professional organizations (Electronic Faculty in Niš, JUREMA in Zagreb, High Military School in Belgrade, Institute of Nuclear Science Vinča in Belgrade, ETRAN) from which he obtained a number of charters, medallions, and letters of thanks

The main scientific contributions of Professor Stojić are in the stability theory, sensitivity analysis of dynamic systems, system simulation, and microcomputer-based real-time control of electrical drives and industrial processes. He has published two textbooks; he is author/co-author of two monographs in Serbian, co-author of one monograph in English, and author of one monograph in Russian. He has published 185 scientific papers, among them 26 in the renowned international journals IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Avtomatika i Telemekhanika, issued by the Academy of Science USSR, International Journal on Circuit Theory and Applications, Automatica, International Journal of IFAC, International Journal on System Science, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Education, and FACTA UNIVERSTATIS, Series: Electronics and Energetics. Other papers have been published in domestic journal (37), in the proceedings of conferences in Yugoslavia (91), and in the proceedings of international conferences (31). Several hundred times he has been cited in papers, books, and in M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses of Yugoslav authors. According to Science Citation Index, he was cited in the international journals and books 96 times.

He is the author of the books Continuous Control Systems (ten editions) and Digital Control Systems, (five editions) written in Serbian, which are used as standard textbooks on automatic control at universities in Yugoslavia. Although the textbooks are written in Serbian, they were reviewed by Professor Ya.Z. Tsypkin and proposed to readers in USSR in the Russian reporting journal {\em\cir Nov{\ti}e knigi za rube\vz om} (New Books in Abroad), issued by the Soviet Academy of Science. In this review, Professor Tsypkin wrote: {\cir {\E}ta kniga otli{\vc}aet{\mz}s{\ja} {\ja}snost{\mz}{\ju} i lakoni{\vc}est{\mz}{\ju} v{\ti}ra{\vz}eni{\ja}} (This book is distincted by clear and laconic expressivity).

Professor Stojić gave numerous technical solutions within the projects carried out by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering for the needs of the industry, scientific institutes, and Yugoslav Army. In three five-year periods he headed the strategic project Electronic Systems of Measuring and Control supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Serbia. He designed the Laboratory for Automatic Control at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. Together with Professor Dejan Živković, he designed the Laboratory for Control Systems in the Air Force at the High Military Academy in Žarkovo (Belgrade). For the project of electronic simulator of guided missile, he was awarded the Yugoslav Decoration for Military Merits, and for the project of microprocessor-based servo drive with induction motor, he obtained, together with Professor Slobodan Vukosavić, the Tesla's Award for the prominent scientific and professional merit.

He supervised over 20 M.Sc. and 16 Ph.D. theses, 12 of them at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade and one at each of the electrical engineering faculties in Niš and Zagreb, Technical Faculty in Čačak and the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Kragujevac.

Aware of the fact that such a short review cannot exibit all of Professor Milić Stojić's activities, in the field of automatic control and in other fields of his lengthy and prolific work, we have presented only a part of results from his research and pedagogical work. Therefore, on the occasion of Professor Milić Stojić's 65th birthday, in FACTA UNIVERSITATIS, Series: Electronics and Energetics we express our deep gratitude and respect, with best wishes for his good health and personal happiness. We hope that he will continue his productive and creative work with same energy, perseverance, zeal, and success as always.

Vidosav Stojanović