People - Department of Communication Systems

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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. /br>
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