Computer Science

University Professors

Dr. Vesna Brujić-Okretić

• Position: Professor, Kingston University London, UK.
• Research areas: context aware mobile systems using augmented reality.
• Education: Ph.D. University of Belgrade, Serbia; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Kristina Vušković

• Position: Reader, School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK.
• Research areas: graph theory, combinatorial optimisation and algorithms, graph decompositions and their relationship to solving optimisation problems and constructing recognition algorithms.
• Education: Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University, USA; B.S. New York University, USA.

Dr. Jozo J. Dujmović

• Position: Full Professor, Department of Computer Science, San Francisco State University, USA.
• Research areas: soft computing (decision methods for system evaluation), software engineering (software metrics), computer system performance analysis.
• Education: Ph.D. University of Belgrade, Serbia; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Miloš Ercegovac

• Position: Full Professor, Computer Science Department, University of California Los Angeles, USA.
• Research areas: computer arithmetic, digital design, reconfigurable and application-specific architectures.
• Education: Ph.D. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Aleksandar Ignjatović

• Position: Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
• Research areas: applications of mathematical logic to computational complexity theory, sampling theory and signal processing, algorithms for embedded systems design as well as educational use of puzzles for teaching serious problem solving techniques.
• Education: Ph.D. University of California Berkeley, USA; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Mihailo Kaplarević

• Position: Bioinformatics Associate Scientist at Delaware Biotechnology Institute, Assistant Professor at Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, USA.
• Research areas: computational biology, parallel computing applied to microbial metagenome analysis, high performance computing in genome research, genome annotation and analysis, machine learning, informational systems design and development, optimization of bioinformatics applications for cluster computing, application parallelization and developing for cellular computer architectures, object oriented, parallel and web programming.
• Education: Ph.D. University of Delaware, USA; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Miroslav Martinović

• Position: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Sciences, The College of New Jersey, USA.
• Research areas: computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, programming languages.
• Education: Ph.D. University of Belgrade, Serbia; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Janko Milutinović

• Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science, Delaware State University, USA.
• Research areas: applied physics, scientific computing, operations research.
• Education: Ph.D. University of Maryland College Park, USA; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Jelena Mirković

• Position: Computer Scientist, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, USA.
• Research areas: distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, Internet worms, botnets, IP spoofing.
• Education: Ph.D. University of California Los Angeles, USA; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Vojislav B. Mišić

• Position: Full Professor, Department of Computer Sciences, Ryerson University, Canada.
• Research areas: performance of wireless networks, cognitive communication networks, software engineering, service-oriented software systems, design quality, impact of socio-psychological factors on software development process.
• Education: Ph.D. University of Belgrade, Serbia; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Jelena Mišić

• Position: Full Professor, Department of Computer Sciences, Ryerson University, Canada.
• Research areas: WLANs, WPANs, wireless sensor networks, wireless mesh networks, ad hoc networks, vehicular ad hoc networks, dynamic spectrum allocation, applications of wireless sensor networks in healthcare and environmental monitoring, network security, performance evaluation.
• Education: Ph.D. University of Belgrade, Serbia; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Goran Nenadić

• Position: Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK.
• Research areas: mining term associations from literature to support knowledge discovery in biology, mining bioinformatics services, resources and workflows from documents, machine learning approach to sentiment analysis.
• Education: Ph.D. University of Salford, UK; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Dragutin Petković

• Position: Full Professor, Department of Computer Science and Director of the Center for Computing for Life Sciences, San Francisco State University, USA.
• Research areas: biomedical image processing, innovative ways to teach practical and global software engineering, Web collaboration with interactive annotations, community managed WWW site for Hedgehog Gene Pathways, QBIC: Query by Image Content, CueVideo: System for automated indexing of video and audio, with advanced search and browse, BlueEyes: Sensor augmented user interfaces, VMware products: Workstation, and GSX and ESX Servers (responsible for UI, application layer and API), DB2 multimedia extenders (image and video).
• Education: Ph.D. University of California Irvine, USA; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Dragoljub Pokrajac

• Position: Associate Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science, Delaware State University, USA.
• Research areas: databases, machine learning, neural networks, statistics and applied mathematics, development and application of data mining methods in different areas, including classification of medical images, bioinformatics, video surveillance systems, homeland security, geoscience and business applications.
• Education: Ph.D. Temple University, USA; B.S. University of Niš, Serbia.

Dr. Zoran Popović

• Position: Full Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, USA.
• Research areas: research in serious games, synthesis of natural control mechanisms, dynamics and control reduction, reusable motion libraries, control of complex dynamics, high-fidelity digital actors, modeling dynamic deformation of flexible objects, novel interfaces for computer animation.
• Education: Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University, USA; B.S. Brown University, USA.

Dr. Miodrag Potkonjak

• Position: Full Professor, Computer Science Department, University of California Los Angeles, USA.
• Research areas: complex distributed systems, embedded systems, communication designs, computer-aided design, ad hoc sensor networks, computational security, electronic commerce, IP protection.
• Education: Ph.D. University of California Berkeley, USA; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Natasa Pržulj

• Position: Lecturer, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK.
• Research areas: systems biology (modeling, algorithms, alignment for molecular and cellular networks),

proteomics (structure and function of proteins and protein-protein interaction networks), graph theory (computational graph theory and algorithms; structured families of graphs).

• Education: Ph.D. University of Toronto, Canada; B.S. Simon Fraser University, Canada.

Dr. Darko Stefanović

• Position: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of New Mexico, USA.
• Research areas: programming languages and systems, molecular computing, molecular cybernetics.
• Education: Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Vojislav Stojković

• Position: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Morgan State University, USA.
• Research areas: artificial Intelligence, bioinformatics, bio-oriented programming languages, knowledge fusion, information assurance.
• Education: Ph.D. University of Belgrade, Serbia; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Dr. Lou Chitkushev

• Position: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Morgan State University, USA.
• Research areas: networking, data assurance, biomedical informatics.
• Education: Ph.D. Boston University, USA; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.