Career: I received Dipl.-Ing, Mr.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia, in 2001, 2005 and 2008, respectively. From June 2009 until December 2010, I was a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow at the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. From 2011-2014, my research at the University of Novi Sad is supported in part by Marie Curie European Reintegration Grant. Since February 2009, I was an Assistant Professor, since March 2014, I was an Associate Professor, and since April 2019, I'm Full Professor with the Department of Power, Electronics and Communication Engineering, University of Novi Sad.
Funding: I was/am involved as principal investigator in FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IRSES project "QoSTREAM" (2012-2016) and FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN project "ADVANTAGE" (2014-2018), H2020-MCSA-2015-RISE project "SENSIBLE" (2017-2021), H2020-WIDENING-2018-TWINNING project "INCOMING" (2020-2022), HORIZON-MCSA-2021-SE-01 project "REMARKABLE" (2022-2026), Serbian Science Fund project "REWARDING", and Serbia-China large bilateral project "REST-on-AIoT" with cumulative funding exceeding 1.5M EURs.
Research: I have published >55 journal and >110 papers at leading (mainly IEEE) international journals and conferences in the domains of coding and information theory, wireless communications, Internet of Things, etc. More details on my Google Scholar page.
Editorial Boards: I am serving as an Editor in IEEE Transactions on Communications, ITU-T Journal on Future and Emerging Technologies and Frontiers Communications and Networking.
Visiting Professor: I hold/held different research and teaching related visiting professor positions at University of Lusofona, Lisbon (Portugal), University of Rwanda, Kigali (Rwanda), Tongji University, Shanghai (China), and University of Torino, Torino (Italy).
Activities & Recognitions:
General Co-Chair at Future Forum Future Communications and Networks 2025, Belgrade, Serbia.
General Co-Chair at IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking CSCN 2024, Belgrade, Serbia
Symposium Co-Chair (Selected Areas in Communications - Smart Grid Communications) at IEEE International Conference on Communications ICC 2023, Rome, Italy
TPC Co-Chair of IEEE SmartGridComm 2022, Singapore.
Symposium Co-Chair (Communications and Networking Symposium) at IEEE SmartGridComm 2021, Aachen, Germany.
General Chair of BalkanCom 2021, Novi Sad, Serbia.
TPC Co-Chair of IEEE VTC-Spring, Antwerp, Belgium.
Best Student Paper Award received by my PhD student Mirsad Cosovic at IEEE SmartGridComm 2017
TC Member and SIG Chair (2021-2024): IEEE ComSoc Smart Grid Communications Technical Committee, SIG Chair for Smart Grid Communications and Networking
TC Member (2012-2020): IEEE CAS Visual Signal Processing and Communications (VSPC) Technical Committee
TC Member: IEEE ComSoc Signal Processing in Communications and Electronics Technical Committee
IEEE Senior Member
2016 Research Excellence Award, Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad
Area Editor (Coding Theory) in Elsevier (AEUE) Int'l Journal on Electronics and Communications (2012-2016)
National MC Representative for EU COST IC1104 Action (2012-2016) and EU COST IC0906 Action (2010-2014)
IEEE ComSoc (Vice-President of IEEE ComSoc Chapter Serbia and Montenegro) and IEEE ITSoc member
2013 IEEE Wireless Communications Letters - Exemplary (Top 3%) Reviewer Award
Finalist (Top 5) for 2011 IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Best Paper Award (Scalable Video Multicast Using Expanding Window Fountain Codes)
2010 IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop MMSP 2010 Top 10% Paper Award