Dimitar Filev: A Pioneer in Car Intelligence: Celebrating his Career and National Academy of Engineering Induction

Surprisingly, a small car is a large-scale system. A car contains approximately 300,000 parts, and to design an optimal car from scratch is basically impossible. Instead of trying to optimize the whole system at once, it is more practical to design better cars through stepwise innovations. Dimitar P. Filev is a great car innovator. He has studied cars both as a scientist and as an engineer. As a scientist, he has been conducting research in modeling and control of complex systems, intelligent control, and fuzzy and neural systems. As an engineer, he has applied his theory and algorithms successfully to automotive engineering.