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Head of Department

Mihael Mohorčič

Head of Department

Research in mobile/wireless communications, IoT, smart applications.

Prof. dr. Mihael Mohorčič (DrSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ljubljana, 2002) is a Principal Investigator and Head of the Department of Communication Systems at JSI and a professor in the area of telecommunications at the Jozef Stefan International Postgraduate School. He has been with the Department of Communication Systems at the Jozef Stefan Institute (JSI) since 1994 except for the period of 12 months in 1996/97, when he was Visiting Scientist at the University of Bradford, Bradford, UK. From 2004 to 2009 he was also part-time employed at the high-tech company INTEKOM, Integrated Technology and Communications, as head of research. His research and working experience is mainly in mobile and wireless communications, recently focusing on radio and network resource management, protocol design and optimization, Internet of Things and “smart” applications of wireless sensor networks. He participated in more than 25 international projects (FP4–H2020 and COST Actions) considering terrestrial & satellite mobile communications, stratospheric telecommunication systems, wireless sensor networks, smart grids and experimental testbeds, and on the national level he participated in or led several applied projects for the industrial partners, as well as basic research projects in the areas of mobile and wireless communications and wireless sensor networks. Currently he is participating to H2020 projects Fed4FIRE+, RESILOC and BD4OPEM, and leading national basic research programme on communications networks and services. He is author or co-author of more than 200 refereed journal and conference papers in the field of mobile and wireless communications, co-author of three books published by John Wiley & Sons, contributor to 9 book chapters (5 published by Springer) and co-author of one US patent. He regularly serves as a Technical Program Committee member to various international conferences and as a reviewer to several high ranked SCI journals and has been an editorial board member of three international journals and a guest editor to two journal special issues. Mihael Mohorčič is Senior Member of IEEE (VTS and ComSoc).

Heads of Laboratories

Carolina Fortuna

Head, NESL

AI & ML for wireless and IoT networks.

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Networked Embedded Systems Laboratory (NESL), head I am a research fellow working at the Department of Communications Systems at the Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia. I also work with the Data Science team in Bloomberg Media and co-founded Comsensus. In my research I use technologies from the broad field of artificial intelligence, including machine learning, data mining and symbolic AI to solve problems in wireless and IoT networks. For more details, see my publications on Google Scholar, Research Gate, and my LinkedIn profile.

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Tomaž Javornik

Head, CTL

Wireless systems, modulation, coding, MIMO.

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Dr. Tomaž Javornik is head of the Communication Technology Laboratory at the Department of Communication Systems and Scientific Advisor at the Jozef Stefan Institute and associate professor at the Jozef Stefan International Postgraduate School. He received B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 1987, 1990, and 1993, respectively. Since 1987 he is employed at Jožef Stefan Institute. He worked part time also for INTEKOM, INTEKOM, Integrated technology and communications ltd., Ljubljana, Slovenia (2004 – 2009) and Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School (JSIPS), Ljubljana, Slovenia (2008 – ). In 1993 and 1994 he was at University of Westminster, London, UK, under project Tempus. His research interests are in wireless communication systems, especially modulation and coding and including turbo-codes and turbo-processing techniques, and MIMO, cooperative systems and physical layer network coding, wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, modelling the propagation of radio and optical signals, development of new methods/techniques/procedures for the efficient use of radio/optical spectrum, satellite and stratospheric communication systems, modelling and simulation of telecommunication systems and localization techniques in particular cooperative localization. He was management committee member of several COST projects, worked in several FP6, FP7, and H2020 projects. He also leaded numerous projects for Slovene industry and government bodies. He has co-authored many conference and journal articles, holds two international patents, and serves as TPC member or reviewer for several IEEE conferences and journals. He is also an associate professor in the Jozef Stefan International Postgraduate School, where he lectures several courses including Multiple Input and Multiple Output Wireless Systems, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, Advanced Concepts in Telecommunication Systems, Multiple-Antenna Systems and – Telecommunication Systems. He also supervised couple MSc. and PhD. students. He serves as TPC member or reviewer for several IEEE conferences and journals.

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Gregor Kosec

Head, PDSL

Parallel & distributed systems.

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Gregor Kosec graduated from the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, in 2006 and received his PhD from the University of Nova Gorica in 2011. In 2011, he became a member of the Parallel and Distributed Systems Laboratory at the Jožef Stefan Institute and in 2020 he became the head of the laboratory. His main research interests are numerical modelling, meshless methods and thermal modelling of power grids.

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Researchers

Aleksandra Rashkovska
Dr. Aleksandra Rashkovska received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the IPS Jožef Stefan, Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2013. She is currently a Research Associate at the Department of Communication Systems, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia. She was a visiting researcher at the Department of Computer Science, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy from November 2014 until October 2015. Her research interests include advanced bio-signal analysis, computer simulations in biomedicine, biomedical applications of data mining and control theory, and data mining in sensor networks. She is also involved in the development of a wireless body sensor and supporting ECG analysis.

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Aleš Švigelj
Aleš Švigelj received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 1997, 2000 and 2003 respectively. He is a senior research fellow in the Department of Communication Systems at the Jožef Stefan Institute and associate professor at the Jožef Stefan Postgraduate School. In 2000/2001 he spent one year as a visiting researcher at Leeds Metropolitan University in Leeds, UK. He has extensive research in modelling, simulation, and design of advanced telecommunications elements, systems, and services. His current work focuses on the advanced networking technologies for wireless systems and smart grids.. He has participated in several national and international projects including COST projects. Recently, he was a technical/scientific coordinator of the FP7 SUNSEED project. He co-authored several books/book chapters and more than 80 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. In 2004 he was awarded the Jožef Stefan Golden Emblem Prize for outstanding contributions made to science in Doctoral theses in the field of natural sciences in Slovenia. He is member of IEEE.
Andrej Čampa
Role: Senior Researcher
Joined: March, 2020
Affiliations: Comsensus, Jožef Stefan Institute

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Andrej Hrovat
Andrej Hrovat is with the Department of Communication Systems at the Jožef Stefan Institute since 2004, at present holding the position of a research fellow. He is also an assistant professor at the Jozef Stefan International Postgraduate School. He received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from University of Ljubljana in 2004 and 2008, respectively. He finished his Ph.D. at the Jozef Stefan International Postgraduate School in 2011. His research and working experience are in the field of telecommunications, focusing on development and performance analysis for fixed and mobile systems including terrestrial, stratospheric and satellite systems, radio channel modelling for fixed and mobile narrowband and broadband radio communication systems and development and installation of the measurement systems and performing the measurements. He works on several projects connected with professional mobile communication systems, 2/3/4G, WiFi and WiMAX technologies, satellite and sensor networks, including several COST actions, Framework Program projects, H2020 projects, European Space Agency (ESA) projects and numerous national research and applicative projects. He is author or co-author of more than 65 journal and conference papers and is a reviewer for several international journals and conferences.

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Blaž Bertalanič
Blaž Bertalanič received his PhD degree at the Faculty of Electrical engineering, University of Ljubljana. He is currently working as a researcher at the Department of Communication Systems, Jožef Stefan Institute. His main research interests are in advancing machine learning and AI algorithms, especially in the context of time series analysis.

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Dawid Strzelczyk
Graduated from Wrocław University of Science and Technology (Eng.) and Warsaw University of Technology (M.Sc.) in the fields of Mechanical Engineering. Obtained PhD in the field of Physics and Astronomy at University of Wrocław, where his research focused on the development and applications of meshless Lattice Boltzmann Method. His scientific interests are (computational) fluid dynamics (especially Lattice Boltzmann Method), numerical methods and porous media.

RG: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dawid-Strzelczyk-2

ORCID:https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5431-533X

Denis Sodin
Denis Sodin received his BSc and MSc degree from electrical engineering from the University of Ljubljana in 2014 and 2017 respectively. His current work focuses on improving adaptive under-frequency load shedding schemes and applicability of Phasor measurement units (PMU) data for the purposes of fault detection and localization in distribution power networks.
Gregor Cerar
Gregor Cerar received his Bachelor’s (2013) and Master’s (2016) degrees from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the University of Ljubljana, where he completed the Telecommunications study programme, and the Ph.D. degree (2021) from International Postgraduate School of Jožef Stefan in Information and Communication technologies with the Department of Communication Systems, Jožef Stefan Institute. He is currently a research associate with the Department of Communication Systems, Jožef Stefan Institute. Main research interests: Artificial Intelligence, Smart Infrastructure, Wireless Networks, and MLOps.


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Ke Guan
Dr. Ke Guan received B.E. degree and Ph.D. degree from Beijing Jiaotong University in 2006 and 2014, respectively. He is a Professor in State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety & School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University. In 2015, he has been awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers. In 2009, he was a Visiting Scholar with Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain. From 2011 to 2013, he was a Research Scholar with the Institut fuer Nachrichtentechnik (IfN) at Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany. From September 2013 to January 2014, he was invited to conduct joint research in Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain. He has authored/coauthored two books and one book chapter, more than 220 journal and conference papers, and four patents. His current research interests include measurement and modeling of wireless propagation channels, high-speed railway communications, vehicle-to-x channel characterization, and indoor channel characterization for high-speed short-range systems including future terahertz communication systems.
Klemen Bregar
Klemen Bregar received his B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University Of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, in 2013. He currently works as a research assistant at the Department of Communication Systems at Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, and is pursuing his Ph.D. in Information and Communication Technologies at the Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School. His research and working experience include the development of embedded systems, wireless sensor networks, biomedical sensor systems and machine learning. His recent research interests include indoor localization, ultrawide bandwidth communication systems, biomedical wireless sensor networks and the application of deep learning neural networks. He is currently involved in H2020 projects eWine and SAAM and contributes to a national applied research project on advanced ray-tracing techniques in radio environment characterization and radio localization (L2-7664).
Magd Abdel Wahab
Obtained his PhD in fracture mechanics from the KU Leuven in Belgium. His research interests are mainly in the fields of applied mechanics, fracture mechanics and structural dynamics of structures with emphasis on the detection and assessment of damage, the investigation of long-term durability and failure mechanisms and the analysis of fractures using various numerical methods.

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Matija Cankar
As an PhD student he is working as a research assistant. He is involved in collaborative projects in the field of energy sector such as BD4OPEM and resilient society such as RESILOC. In the collaborative project he is working as embedded system developer.
Matjaž Depolli
Dr. Matjaž Depolli received a PhD in computer and information science from Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School Ljubljana in 2010. He currently hold the position of research assistant at the Department of Communication Systems at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana. His research interests include evolutionary computation, computer simulation of physical phenomena, parallel computing, artificial intelligence, and biomedical research. He is also involved in the development of wireless body sensors, software for ECG analysis, cluster management software, and cloud services.

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Maciej Grzegorz Matyka
Dr. Matjaž Depolli received a PhD in computer and information science from Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School Ljubljana in 2010. He currently hold the position of research assistant at the Department of Communication Systems at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana. His research interests include evolutionary computation, computer simulation of physical phenomena, parallel computing, artificial intelligence, and biomedical research. He is also involved in the development of wireless body sensors, software for ECG analysis, cluster management software, and cloud services.

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Miha Smolnikar

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Roman Novak
Roman Novak received his MSc and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Ljubljana in 1995 and 1998, respectively. He is a senior research fellow at the Department of Communication Systems of the Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia since 1992 and an assistant professor at the Jozef Stefan International Postgraduate School since 2007. He was a visiting scientist at the Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft, Graz, Austria in 2008. He participated in several major projects in the field of design and development of telecommunication systems. His latest research interests include radiofrequency ray tracing and parallel algorithms in general. His previous research interests have been focused on routing in communication networks, information security topics, as well as on signal processing for nuclear spectroscopy and others. He is a member of the IEEE and the ACM.

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PhD Students

Aleš Simončič
Aleš Simončič received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Ljubljana in 2019 and 2022, respectively. His master’s thesis was focused on angle of arrival estimation using BLE technology and antenna arrays.

He is currently working as a young researcher at the Department of Communication Systems at the Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, and is pursuing his Ph.D. in Information and Communication Technologies at the Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School.

His research interests are in the area of radio communication systems. In particular. protocols, antennas and arrays, direction of arrival estimation methods, embedded systems, and radio environment characterization.
Ana Jeknič
Ana Jeknić received her BSc and MSc degrees from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Montenegro, specializing in Electronics, Telecommunications, and Computers (BSc) and Telecommunications (MSc) in 2020 and 2024, respectively. She was a Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Montenegro from 2021 until 2024. She currently works as a young researcher in the Department of Communication Systems at the Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, and is pursuing her Ph.D. in Information and Communication Technologies at the Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School. Her research interests include wireless networks, terahertz communications, 6G communication systems, and integrated sensing and communication.
Andrej Kolar - Požun
Received his M.Sc. in mathematical physics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana. He is currently working on Bayesian dynamic modeling.
Grega Morano
Grega Morano received his M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University Of Ljubljana, in 2021. He currently works as a research assistant at the Department of Communication Systems at Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, and is pursuing his Ph.D. in Information and Communication Technologies at the Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School. Among his research interests are IoT communication protocols, wireless sensor networks and wireless experimental testbeds.
Jon Vehovar
Jon Vehovar received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in physics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana. He is developing meshless methods for HPC systems.
Ljupcho Milosheski
Jon Vehovar received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in physics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana. He is developing meshless methods for HPC systems.
Miha Rot
Jon Vehovar received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in physics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana. He is developing meshless methods for HPC systems.
Nika Mlinarič
Received her B.Sc and M.Sc in physics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana. She is currently a PhD student at the Department of Communication Systems at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana.
Sadig Gojayev
I received my Master’s degree in Data Science from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest in 2024. My research is about AI planning methods and I am currently pursuing PhD in Jozef Stefan International Postgraduate School.
Research Interests: AI planning, reinforcement learning, and deep learning.
Gašper Golob
Received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in mathematics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana. He is currently a PhD student at the Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School. His research interests include meshless methods and stabilization schemes.
Marko Hudomalj
As an PhD student he is working as a research assistant. He is involved in collaborative projects in the field of energy sector such as BD4OPEM and resilient society such as RESILOC. In the collaborative project he is working as embedded system developer.

MSc Students

Mikhail Krasnov
I received my bachelor deegre in physics at Moscow Institute and Physics and Thechologies in 2023, after which I was working as Data Scientist at Yandex till 2024. My research interests include self-supervised learning, time series analysis and deep clustering.
Research Interests: deep learning, time series, and self-supervised learning.

Support Staff

Polona Anžur
Project Office Manager
Nika Simčič
Administration
Tomaž Krištofelc
Technical Support

Emeritus

Gorazd Kandus

Curriculum Vitae: Prof. dr. Gorazd Kandus

Education:

  • Sc., Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, 1971, (Prešeren prize)
  • Sc., Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, 1974
  • D., Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ljubljana, 1991

Employment:

  • 1971-1974: Institute of Transportation, Research work: Development of mathematical model of railway network and programming of software package for empty freight car allocation
  • 1975-1979: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Teaching assistant for Optimization methods and Operations research
  • 1979 to date: Institute Jožef Stefan, Ljubljana
  • 1993-2010: Head of Department of communication systems at IJS
  • 2011 to date: Head of Communications Technology Laboratory at IJS
  • 2004 to 2010: Faculty for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, Part time employment

Stays abroad:

  • 1978/79: 1 year, Fulbright Grant, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
  • 1993: 3-months, Grant, Commission of the European Communities Fellowship, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
  • 1995 2-months, Grant, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Forschungszentrum Informatik, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • 1999 2-months, Grant, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Institute of Communications and Navigation, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

National research projects:

  • 2011-2014, J2-4197, Advanced procedures for interactive composition of sensor networks
  • 2008-2011, L2-1109, Multi-antenna systems for mobile WiMAX
  • 2006-2008, M2-0130, Design of advanced digital mobile system TETRA for Ministry of Defence
  • 2004-2007, L2-6547, Broadband wireless access networks
  • 2004-2006, M2-0026, Professional mobile communication system for Ministry of Defence
  • 2003-2004, Z2-5384, Adaptive routing in satellite networks
  • 1999-2001, L2-1626, Universal mobile telecommunications system
  • 1997-1999, J2-8695, Telecommunication systems
  • 1997-1998, L2-9061, Wireless digital telecommunication systems in transportation systems
  • 1996-1998, L2-7670, Universal mobile telecommunications system

National research program:

  • 1999-2014, P2-0016, Telecommunication systems

National R&D projects:

  • New software architecture design for PABX SI2000/V5, Iskratel
  • Development of radio-reley systems DRS 2/8/34, Iskra Transmission
  • Global modernization plan of telecommunications Infrastructure and services in Slovenia, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Transport and Communications
  • Security and interoperability in Slovene health insurance card system, HIIS – The Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia
  • Design of telecommunication network at highways in Slovenia, DARS
  • Compression and transmission of video signals, Iskra Transmission
  • Development of a simulation model of IskraTEL internal network; Iskratel
  • Conceptual solutions for wireless communications at the airport Brnik; Iskra Sistemi
  • Wireless communication platform, Iskra Sistemi
  • Fixed mobile convergence, Telekom Slovenije
  • Provision of Broadband wireless accees services onboard train; Mobitel
  • Uninterrupted provision of communication services in emergency situations; Telekom Slovenije
  • Hardware and software tool for signal level measurement of public protection and disaster relief wireless communication systems; MORS URSZR
  • WiMAX network design and and pico Wimax base station development
  • development of modules for radio signal calculation, Mobitel

National Centres of Excellence and Competence Centres:

  • CO ICT, Centre of Excellence in ICT: project RR4, Protocols and service integration in converged NGN systems, project leader
  • CO BIK, Centre of Excellence for Biosensors, Instrumentation and Process Control. member of Council
  • CO SPACE-SI, Centre of Excellence for Space Sciences and Technologies, member
  • KC OPCOMM, Competence centre Open Communication platform for integrated services, member of Strategic council

International R&D projects:

  • COST 227 Action “Integrated Space/Terrestrial Mobile Networks”
  • COST 231 Action “Evolution of Land Mobile Radio (Including Personal) Communications”
  • COST 252 Action: “Evolution of Satellite Personal Communications from 2nd to Future Generation Systems”
  • COST 253 Action: “Service-Efficient Network Interconnection via Satellites”
  • COST 259 Action: “Wireless Flexible Personalized Communications”
  • COST 272 Action: “Packet-oriented Service Delivery Via Satellite”
  • COST 273 Action: “Towards Mobile Broadband Multimedia Networks”
  • COST 279 Action: “Analysis and Design of Advanced Multiservice Networks Supporting Mobility, Multimedia and Internetworking”
  • COST 290 Action: “Quality of Service in Future Wireless Systems”
  • COST IC0802 Action: “Propagation tools and data for integrated Telecommunication, Navigation and Earth Observation systems”
  • COST IC1101 Action: “Optical Wireless Communications – An Emerging Technology”
  • ALIS No. 65 project: “Integrated Dynamic Resource Control for QoS Provisioning in Multimedia Wireless Networks”
  • Slovene-Croatian project: “Introduction of New Telematic Services”
  • Slovene-Croatian project: “Environmental Protection and Telecommunications”
  • ERO project “UMTS“, European Radiocommunication Office
  • AMS DECT RF-IF part simulation; Austria Mikro Systeme International
  • REMUS feasibility study, Austria Mikro Systeme International
  • COPERNICUS COP-708 project: “Advanced Transmission and Network Management Techniques in Integrated Satellite/Terrestrial Mobile Systems”
  • COPERNICUS project: “NETLINK-CEE: Transfer of EU Experience in Healthcards into the CEE Countries under the Auspices of the NETLINK Project”
  • HELINET (5FP-IST-1999-11214) “Network of Stratospheric Platforms for Traffic Monitoring, Environmental Surveillance and Broadband Services“ 1999-2003
  • CAPANINA (FP6-IST-2003-506745), “Communications from Aerial Platform Networks delivering Broadband Communications for All”, 2004-2007
  • SatNEx (FP6-IST-2003-506745), “Satellite Communications Network of Excellence”, 2004-2006
  • SatNEx-II (FP6-IST-027393), “Satellite Communications Network of Excellence – Phase II”. 2006-2009
  • AgroSense (FP7-REGPOT-2007-3204472): “Wireless Sensor Networks and Remote Sensing Foundation of a modern agricultural infrastructure in the region”
  • Duration: 2008 – 2011
  • BalkanGEONet (FP7-ENV-2010265176): “Balkan GEO Network – Towards Inclusion of Balkan Countries into Global Earth Observation Initiatives”, 2010 – 2013
  • PlanetData (FP7-ICT-2009-5257641): “PlanetData”; Network of Excellence, 2010 – 2014
  • CREW (FP7-ICT-2009-5258301): “Cognitive Radio Experimentation World – Enlarged EU”, 2011 – 2015
  • ABSOLUTE (FP7-ICT-2011-287804): “Aerial Base Stations with Opportunistic Links for Unexpected & Temporary Events”, 2012 – 2015
  • CITI-SENSE (FP7-ENV-2012-308524): “Development of sensor based Citizens’ Observatory Community for improving quality of life in cities”, 2012 – 2016
  • SUNSEED (FP7-ICT-2013-619437): “Sustainable and robust networking for smart electricity distribution”, 2014 – 2017
  • ESA/ESTEC Contract No. 4000104510/11/NL/KML: “Ka/Q-band Propagation Measurements and Modeling for the Design of Prediction and Impairment Mitigation Techniques – SatProSi “, 2011-2014
  • ESA/ESTEC Contract No. 4000111927/14/NL/NDe: “Ka/Q-band Propagation Measurements and Modelling – Slovenian Contribution to the Alphasat TDP#5 Scientific Mission – SatProSi-Alpha”, 2014-2016

Membership:

  • IEEE Senior Member
  • Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Honor Society in the Computing Sciences, Member
  • Electrical Society of Slovenia, Member
  • Simulation and Modelling Society of Slovenia
  • Technology Network ICT
  • SIKOM, Slovene Society for electronic communications

Participation in working and expert groups (past and present):

  • Chairman of the Intersectorial Governmental Working Group, Telecommunications Infrastructure and Services in Slovenia
  • External Expert on UMTS, satellite component, European Radiocommunication Office, Copenhagen
  • Expert for evaluation of 5FP IST Action Line IV.5 proposals, EC, Brussels
  • Member of the Governmental Commissions for the granting of a Concession for using GSM, DCS1800, UMTS and WiMAX Frequency Spectrum and Services in Slovenia
  • Member of ETSI RES/TC 2 (DECT)
  • Member of TETRA WG4, ETSI, Sophia-Antipolis
  • Representative of EU TP ISI (the Integral Satcom Initiative)
  • Representative of EU TP eMobility (the Mobile and Wireless Communications)
  • Member of Governmental Council for electronic communications
  • Member of Scientific Council, responsible for Telecommunications, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology
  • Member of TC MOC Mobile Communications, Slovenian Institute for Standardization
  • Member of IJS Scientific Council
  • Member of IJS Commission for intellectual property
  • Member of IJS Commission for awards

Publications:

Co-author of:

  • 77 scientific articles
  • 178 scientific contributions published in conference proceedings
  • 13 monographs and parts in a monograph
  • 170 surveys and research reports
  • 18 invited lectures at conferences and foreign universities
  • 2 US and 2 SI patents
  • WoS/Scopus pure citations: 98/325
  • h-index: 9

Updated list of all publications is available at:

http://splet02.izum.si/cobiss/bibliography?code=05209&sciif=on&langbib=eng&li=en

Description of participation in selected projects:

  1. FP6 project SatNEx I and II (Satellite Communications Network of Excellence):

    Within the FP6 project SatNEx we participated in the investigation of a hybrid stratospheric satellite communication system. We studied adaptive modulation procedures. In particular, we developed new advanced iterative decoding algorithms for FSO systems. We also contributed to the development of communication system for public protection and disaster relief, potentially deployed in remote and damaged areas in the case of emergency situations.

  2. CRP project »Professional mobile communication system for Ministry of Defence«:

    In the project we implemented pilot network TETRA, where we tested basic voice and data services. In the second phase, we developed new applications for MoD TETRA network including GIS, WAP, AVL, paging and telemetry. We connected also TETRA network with PSTN network and with internet.

  3. Project »Development of modules for radio coverage calculation in an open-source environment«:

    For Slovene mobile operator Mobitel we developed an open-source system, based on GRASS, which enables free development and improvement of existing mathematical models as well as usage of other modules for data processing. develops new modules for coverage calculation, based on mathematical models such as Okumura-Hata, 9999 model etc. The achievements are useful both for improved planning of GSM/UMTS networks, as well as for scientific purposes, e.g. for development of more exact mathematical models.

  4. ESA project SatProSi “Ka/Qband Propagation Measurements and Modelling for the Design of Prediction and Impairment Mitigation Techniques”

    Within the framework of the ESA SatProSi project we developed a ground station for receiving satellite signals in the 20 GHz frequency band. We designed satellite receiver in SDR technology. It is intended for longterm monitoring of the satellite carrier and modeling of satellite channel. In 2013 we built three receivers, adapted them to receive Alphasat signal and prepared everything ready for site diversity experiment. The receiver is characterized by extremely low price and high performance, which raised the attention of colleagues in the Joanneum Research, who invited us to participate in their ESA project “Data Collection and Processing System for the Alphasat TDP5 Ka Q band propagation experiment”. One JSI receiver is already installed on Hilmwarte tower in Graz.

Alumni and Retirees

  • Ahmad Anaqreh, 2025
  • Teodora Kocevska, 2024
  • Nina Verdel, 2024
  • Ivan Tomašić, 2024
  • Arsim Kelmendi, 2024
  • Filip Strniša, 2024
  • Mitja Jančič, 2023
  • Sebastjan Mrak, 2023
  • Marko Mihelin, 2023
  • Blaž Rojc, 2023
  • Din Mušić, 2022
  • Viktor Cvrtila, 2022
  • Tamara Matevc, 2022
  • Matevž Vučnik, PhD, 2021
  • Monika Kapus Kolar, PhD, retired, 2021
  • Igor Ozimek, PhD, retired, 2021
  • Viktor Avbelj, PhD, retired, 2021
  • Jure Slak, PhD, 2021
  • Halil Yetgin, PhD, 2021
  • Roman Trobec, PhD, retired, 2020
  • Rituraj Singh, PhD, 2020
  • Andrej Vilhar, PhD 2018
  • Kemal Alič, PhD, 2017
  • Urban Kuhar, PhD, 2017
  • Erik Pertovt, PhD, 2015
  • Marko Pesko, PhD, 2015
  • Melisa Junuzović, MSc, 2015
  • Adnan Bekan, MSc, 2015
  • Maria Porcius, MSc, 2012
  • Zoltan Padrah, MSc, 2011
  • Tine Celcer, PhD, 2010
  • Srečo Plevel, PhD, 2007
  • Igor Jelovčan, MSc, 2007
  • Igor Rozman, MSc, 2007
  • Marjan Šterk, PhD, 2005
  • Uroš Drčić, MSc, 2002
  • Gregor Pipan, MSc, 2000