Dr Dejan Vukobratovic
Full Professor | Department of Power, Electronic and Communication Engineering | Faculty of Technical Sciences | University of Novi Sad | Novi Sad | Serbia |
I'm serving as a head of the Chair for Communications and Signal Processing.
I'm co-founder, former director and active member of ICONIC centre.
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Address: Fruskogorska 1, FTN-NTP Building, 21 000 Novi Sad, Serbia |
Email: dejanv at uns dot ac dot rs | Tel: +381 (0)60 0820500 | Skype: dejan.vukobratovic |
News & Activities:
November 2023: I have participated as a panelist at IEEE Conference on Standards in Communications and Networking CSCN 2023 in Munich on the topic of Standardization landscape for 6G robotics services. For more information, see: https://cscn2023.ieee-cscn.org/program/panels
October 2023: Serbian Science Fund Green Project REWARDING (Remote Water Quality and Intelligence) is featured in National Geographic Serbia. Read more about it here: https://nationalgeographic.rs/zivotna-sredina/a42063/Projekat-REWARDING-merenja-kvaliteta-voda-u-realnom-vremena-na-Dunavu.html
May 2023: From May 2023, for the next two years (possibly extended to third year) our team will participate in Serbian Science Fund Green Project REWARDING (Remote Water Quality and Intelligence). In this project, our team will design IoT/Edge/Cloud based system for water quality monitoring sensing, communications and data analytics using drones and floating water buoys.
January 2023: From 2023-2026, our team will participate in Horizon Europe project REMARKABLE (Rural Environmental Monitoring via ultra wide-ARea networKs And distriButed federated Learning) that will boost proliferation of IoT technologies and data analytics in deep rural areas focusing on Africa. For more information, please see: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101086387 and https://remarkable.ulusofona.pt/
August 2022: I have participated as a lecturer at IEEE/SPS EURASIP Summer School on Data and Graph Driven Learning for Communications and Signal Processing.
For more information, please see: https://www.banjaluka2022school.ba/.
For a video lecture of my presentation, please see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTRJcRU4Rpo
May 2022: I will serve as a Symposia Chair for SAC - Smart Grid Networks and Powerline Communications symposium at IEEE International Conference on Communications 2023 (IEEE ICC 2023) in Rome, Italy, May 2023. For more information, please see: https://icc2023.ieee-icc.org/committees/technical-program-committee
December 2021: I will present a keynote lecture at the 5th International Conference on Future Networks and Distributed Systems. For more information, please see: https://icfnds.org/mod/page/view.php?id=88.
September 2021: BalkanCom 2021 took place in Novi Sad. For more information about this high-quality event in the domain of communications and signal processing, please see: http://www.balkancom.info/2021/.
July 2021: Our team of PhD students won IEEE Vehicular Technology Society UAV Innovation Challenge. For more information, see the following video material: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU0vkbEcO1w and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Px0hAjpVE.
May 2021: I will be serving as a Technical Program Committee Co-Chair at IEEE Smart Grid Communications Conference (IEEE SmartGridComm 2022) to be held in Singapore. More info at: https://sgc2022.ieee-smartgridcomm.org/committees/committees
April 2021: I'm serving as a Communications and Networking Symposium Co-Chair at IEEE Smart Grid Communications Conference (IEEE SmartGridComm 2021) in Aachen, Germany, November 2021. More info at: https://sgc2021.ieee-smartgridcomm.org/committees/committee
March 2021: I'm serving as a Guest Editor for Special Issue of MDPI Sensors journal on Massive Machine-Type Communications Towards 6G. More info at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/MTC
February 2021: I'm serving as a Guest Editor for Special Issue of Elsevier Physical Communications journal on architecture, protocols and management of indoor wireless networks. More info at: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/physical-communication/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-architecture-protocols-and-management
December 2020: I presented a keynote talk at 2020 International Conference on Mobile Computing, Wireless Communications and Networks MCWCN 2020, Zhengchou, China. More info at: http://2020.mcwcn.org/speaker
November 2020: I'm serving as a Guest Editor for Special Issue of ITU-J FET Journal on Wireless Communications Systems in Beyond 5G Era. Please consider submitting your work to this venue. More info at: https://www.itu.int/en/journal/j-fet/2021/004/Pages/default.aspx
August 2020: I will serve as an Associate Editor in a newly founded journal by International Telecommunication Union (ITU) called ITU-J FET: Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies. More info at: https://www.itu.int/en/journal/j-fet/Pages/default.aspx
June 2020: I will serve as a Special Interest Group (SIG) Co-Chair for SIG on Smart Grid Communications and Networking as part of Smart Grid Communications Technical Committee of IEEE Communication Society. More info at: https://sg.committees.comsoc.org/special-interest-groups/
May 2020: I will serve as an Associate Editor for Communications Theory in a newly founded journal Frontiers in Communications and Networks. More info at: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/communications-and-networks
January 2020: I'm coordinating H2020 Twinning project INCOMING (Innovation and excellence in massive scale communications and information processing). In the next 3 years, ICONIC centre will twinn with Aalborg University, Chalmers University of Technology and German Aerospace Centre (DLR). More info at: https://incoming.ftn.uns.ac.rs/
December 2019: I will present a keynote lecture at International Conference on Wireless Communications, Signal Processing and Networking (WiSPNet 2020) in Chennai, India, in March 2020. More info at: http://www.wispnet2020.org/
December 2019: Discussion on 5G technology at "Science to Industry" ("Nauka Privredi") - Radio Television of Vojvodina
August 2019: Check out recent text regarding introduction and perspectives of 5G technology in Serbia at VOICE portal (in Serbian only): http://voice.org.rs/revolucionarni-pomaci-u-5g-mrezi-u-srbiji-tek-2030/
August 2019: I'm serving as a Guest Editor for Special Issue on Coding and Modulation Techniques for Beyond 5G to be published in Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing journal (Deadline for submission: 15.11.2019.) See more info at: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcmc/si/978084/cfp/
June 2019: We will be organizing next edition of BalkanCom 2020 in Novi Sad. I'm happy to serve as a General Chair jointly with Petar Djuric (Stony Brook University, USA). Please follow timely updates at: http://www.balkancom.info/2020/
April 2019: I will be serving as TPC Co-Chair jointly with Sofie Pollin (KU Leuven) and Osamu Muta (Kyushu University) for IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference - Spring 2020 (IEEE VTC-Spring 2020) in Antwerp, Belgium. More info at: https://events.vtsociety.org/vtc2020-spring/
March 2019: ICONIC centre selected for funding in H2020 TWINNING call. We will "twinn" in next three years with Aalborg University, Chalmers University of Technology and German Aerospace Centre (DLR). More info to come soon...
January 2019: I'm serving as a Publication Co-Chair jointly with Oliver Holland (Kings College London) for BalkanCom 2019. Consider submitting to this high-quality event in Balkan region (Deadline 31.03).
December 2018: Jointly with Gordana Gardasevic (Uni Banja Luka), we are organizing Special Session on Industrial IoT at IEEE EUROCON 2019. Check info here (Deadline 31.01).
28 August 2018: Mirsad Cosovic won Best Student Poster Award at US - Serbia & West Balkan Data Science Workshop in Belgrade for his poster Distributed Power System State Estimation Based on the Belief Propagation
June - October 2018: I'm visiting Scheidt and Bachmann Slovensko in Zilina, Slovakia, and Tongji University in Shanghai, as part of H2020 SENSIBLE project.
11 July 2018: Invited talk "Smart Lighting and Internet of Things" to be presented at IEICE ICTF 2018 conference in Graz, Austria.
June 2018: Our tutorial paper "Random Linear Network Coding for 5G Mobile Video Delivery" featured on LinkedIn by CodeOn Technologies.
12 May 2018: Our paper "Visible Light Communication Based Indoor Positioning via Compressed Sensing" is featured by MIT Technology Review as one of the 5 most thought-provoking papers of the week published on arXiv: MIT Technology Review Link.
24/25 April 2018: ICONIC centre internal Spring Workshop brought together researchers related to ICONIC to present their ongoing research: Workshop Program.
April 2018: Participating and presenting on an interesting workshop on Connected People and Things at International Burch University in Sarajevo.
December 2017: A new ICONIC (Intelligent Communications, Networking and Information Processing) research centre established at Faculty of Technical Sciences. It will gather 17 staff members and focus on i) massive communications, ii) large-scale information processing, and iii) reconfigurable hardware design and system implementation. More info to come soon...
November 2017: I was external PhD committee member at Aalborg University, PhD candidate: Dr Chres Wiant Sorensen, supervisor Dr Daniel Lucani, co-supervisors Prof Muriel Medard and Prof. Frank Fitzek.
October 2017: Mirsad Cosovic won the Best Student Paper Award at IEEE SmartGridComm 2017 in Dresden! Congratulations!
September 2017: Invited speaker at IEEE ERK in Portoroz, Slovenia (Talk: IoT in 5G: From massive Machine-Type Communications to Large-Scale Information Processing)
September 2017: Guest editor - Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing - Special Issue on Slicing in Modern Cellular Networks
September 2017: Guest editor - Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing - Special Issue on Machine Learning for Communication Performance Enhancements
August 2017: I was external PhD committee member at University of Strathclyde, PhD candidate: Dr Shikha Sarkar, supervisors Dr Lina Stankovic and Prof Ivan Andonovic.
June-August 2017: I'm visiting Ramboll UK and University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, as part of H2020 SENSIBLE project.
June 2017: Keynote speaker at INTSIKT 2017 event (Talk: 5G IoT: Pushing the Reliability and Delay Limits of Wireless Technology for Future Cyber-Physical Systems)
January 2017: Our group is involved in H2020 Research and Innovation Staff Exchange network "SENSIBLE" that kick-started in January 2017. During next 4 years we will exchange staff with University of Sydney, Tongji University - Shanghai, National Institute of Informatics - Tokyo, McGill University - Montreal, Ramboll UK and Scheidt and Bachmann Slovakia.
October 2016: Keynote speaker at BIHTEL 2016 conference (Talk: Internet of Things for 5G and Beyond: Should Communications and Data Analysis Remain Separated?)
September 2016: I was external PhD committee member at Chalmers University of Technology, PhD candidate: Dr Mikhail Ivanov, Supervisors: Fredrik Brannstrom and Alexandre Graell i Amat.
August 2016: I spent one month at MassM2M group, Aalborg University, Denmark, collaborating with Dr Cedomir Stefanovic and Prof. Petar Popovski.
August 2016: Guest Editor - IEEE/KIC Journal on Communications and Networking (JCN) - Special Issue on Green Communications
July 2016: Talk on "Slotted ALOHA in Small Cell Networks: How to Design Codes on Random Geometric Graphs?" - DLR/TUM Summer Workshop on Coding
July 2016: I spent one month at German Aerospace Center (DLR), visiting Dr Gianluigi Liva
May 2016: 2016 Award for Research Excellence, Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad. Video link:
April 2016: FP7 ADVANTAGE project meeting and workshop on "Recent Trends in Machine to Machine Communications" in Novi Sad (12-16. April 2016). Media coverage (N1 News) and video link:
February 2016: FP7 QoSTREAM project successfully completed! Our group established research collaboration with Texas A&M University, USA (Prof. Zixiang Xiong), and Stellenbosch University, South Africa (Prof. Ben Herbst). Media coverage (N1 News) and video link:
December 2015: I visited the group of Prof. Mehul Motani and gave a talk "Recent trends in Slotted ALOHA with applications in Small Cell Networks" at Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore (15.12.2015).
August 2015: I spent one month visiting Dr Vladimir Stankovic, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
July 2015: I spent one month visiting Prof. Aleksandra Pizurica, Ghent University, Belgium.
June 2015: COST IC1104 meeting "Recent Advances in Practical Network Coding and Distributed Storage" in Novi Sad, 01-02. June 2015.
March 2015: Invited talk "Codes on Random Geometric Graphs" at ALCOMA 2015, Kloster-Banz, Germany