Curriculum vitae


 

1.      Family name:     Jovanović

2.      First names:      Zoran

3.      Date of birth:     August 12th, 1953

4.      Nationality:        Serbian

5.      Civil status:        married, 2 children

6.      Education:         Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, University of Belgrade


Institution

[ Date from - Date to ]

Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained:

1988

PhD. in Computer Engineering

1982

MSci in Digital Telecommunications

1978

Dipl. eng. Electrical Engineering

7.       Language skills:  Indicate competence on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 - excellent; 5 - basic)

Language

Reading

Speaking

Writing

English

1

1

1

Serbian

1

1

1

8.      Membership of professional bodies: Serbian Association of Informatics

9.      Other skills:  Presentation and managerial.

10.  Present positions:      Professor of Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Director of Belgrade University Computing Center, Director of the National Research and Education Network (NREN) of Serbia and Montenegro - AMRES.

11.  Years within the firm: 16

12.  Key qualifications:  Coordinating the EU FP5 project SEEREN in the country (2002 - ), coordinated the SINYU/SINSEE project in the country (donation of the German government, 2002 - 2003), coordinated the team of consultants for improving the network and software support at Radio-Television of Serbia (2002 - ), coordinated the Strategy of ICT in Serbia (2001-2003) and coordinating the development of software for the USAID Serbian Local Government Reform Program (SLGRP, 2003 - ), coordinated and coordinating the following EU FP6 projects in the country: SEEGRID, SEEFIRE, SEEREN2, SEEGRID2 and 6DISS, coordinated the ICT strategy in the Strategy of industrial development of Serbia 2006-2012 for the Government of Serbia (2006), coordinating the development of software for Hospital information systems and the Healthcare fund of Serbia, coordinating the development of the NREN AMRES.


 

13.  Specific experience in the region:

Country

Date from - Date to

SEE cooperation in research and education networking, representative of Serbia in the following organizations: TERENA, NREN-PC (observer) and CEENet.

Member of the managing board of CEENet

2001 –

(all these cooperations and memberships started after the change in the country – after October 2000)

14. Professional experience

Date from - Date to

Location

Company

Position

Description

2001 -

Belgrade

Through University of Belgrade as a legal entity. A new law that will establish AMRES as a legal entity is in the last phases of preparation

Coordinator of the NRENs

AMREJ and AMRES

By a special decision of the Federal Government in 2001, University of Belgrade got a coordinating role for the NREN. The organizational unit – Belgrade University Computer Centre has been fulfilling that role during the whole period since year 2001. As the Director of Belgrade University Computing Centre, with a special decision of the Rector of University of Belgrade, appointed to be the Director of AMREJ. After Montenegro became an independent country, the NREN was renamed into AMRES. The coordination was done in planning, building, operating and financing activities of the NREN for the whole country.

1992 -

Belgrade

University of Belgrade

Director of Belgrade University Computing Centre

The computing centre was established after IBM donated a mainframe computer to University of Belgrade. As a young professor, was elected to coordinate the establishment of a university computing centre that will offer services to students and professors of University of Belgrade. Initially, it was a part time coordination job (1/3 overtime), since the full time job was as a professor at Computer Engineering and Informatics Department, School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade. During the period, Belgrade University Computing Centre started building the National Research and Education Network (NREN). Now the Director position is elective, like the Rector and vicerectors, within University of Belgrade. Part of activities for this position are described in the Coordination of AMRES. Coordinating development of IT solutions for University of Belgrade.

1990 -

Belgrade

Faculty (School) of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Computer Engineering and Informatics department

Assistant, Associate  professor and Professor

Started University career as an Assistant professor in 1990. Now has a full time Full professor (professor) position.

Coordinated the Computer Engineering and Informatics Department in the period 2004-2006. This Department has more than 1000 students. Coordinating postgraduate (MSci and PhD studies) in Software Engineering. Lecturing the following undergraduate courses: Concurrent and Distributed Computing, Computer networks 1, Computer Networks 2, Parallel Computing, Computer Security. Lecturing in the same areas at MSci and PhD studies, and additional courses related to Implementation of ICT in biomedical systems. Member of the managing board of the School of Electrical Engineering.  

1989

Los Angeles

CS Department  of UCLA

Visiting scholar

4 month post doctoral research at Computer Engineering Department in the area of optimizing loop code for parallel computers

1978 - 1990

Belgrade

Vinča Institute

researcher, team leader, project manager

Started career as a young researcher in computer engineering. In 1982 became a team leader for a team of young researchers developing a peripheral array processor. Main designer of the peripheral array processor. In 1987 became the project manager of a large R&D project (25 researchers in the project). Received the annual award for scientific results of the Vinča Institute (largest institute in Former Yugoslavia).


15. Other relevant information (eg, Publications)

Journal papers: 18, International conference papers – more than 30, more than 13 times an invited conference speaker, awards for the best diploma work and best Ph.D. thesis by the city of Belgrade, more than 6 professional awards, more than 100 papers at local conferences. Program Committee Chair of 2 conferences. Coordinated more than 10 research projects and more than 50 R&D projects in computer networking, software development and turn-key systems.


 II LIST OF PUBLISHED PAPERS IN THE LAST SIX YEARS IN ENGLISH

 

INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

 

1.      Snezana Sucurovic and Zoran Jovanovic: "Java Cryptography & Attribute Certificate Management", Dr. Dobb's Journal,  September, 2006.

2.      Slavko Gajin, Zoran Jovanović: "Explanation of Performance Degradation in Turn model", Journal of Supercomputing , Volume 37 ,  Issue 3  (September 2006), Pages: 271 – 295.

3.      Branko Marović, Zoran Jovanović: "Web-based Grid-enabled Interaction with 3D Medical Data", Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 22, Issue 4 , March 2006, Pages 385-392.

4.      Snežana Šućurović, Zoran Jovanović: "Putting the Java cryptography architecture to work", Dr. Dobb's Journal,  February 2005, http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=9506/ddj0502e/0502e.html

5.      Nenad Jovanović, Ranko Popović, Zoran Jovanović: “Modelling distributed system entities which communicate asynchronous via message passing in Java”, International journal of Neural, Parallel and Scientific Computations, Dynamic Publishers, Inc, vol. 13, 63-77, Atlanta, 2005.

6.      Nenad Jovanovic, Ranko Popovic, Zoran Jovanovic: “Modelling synchronous communications in Java”, Journal of the technical university of Gabrovo, vol. 28, 2003. 77-81.

7.      Milićev, D., Jovanović, Z., "Control Flow Regeneration for Software Pipelined Loops with Conditions," International Journal of Parallel Programming, Vol. 30, No. 3, June 2002, pp. 149-179

8.      Milićev, D., Jovanović, Z., "A Finite State Machine Based Formal Model of Software Pipelined Loops with Conditions," International Journal of Computer Research, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2001, pp. 11-20

9.      Jovanović, Z., Marić S., “A heuristic algorithm for dynamic task scheduling in highly parallel computing systems” , Future Generation Computer Systems, North Holland Elsevier, Vol 17/6,   pp 721-732, 2001., 

10. Milićev, D., Jovanović, Z., "Sources of Parallelism in Software Pipelining Loops with Conditional Branches," ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Vol. 35, No. 2, February 2000, pp. 36-45.

 

INVITED PAPERS AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

 

1.      Z. Jovanovic: NREN on dark fibre with CWDM - experience of S&M, ANW workshop Chisinau, Management issues for excellence in Research and Education, October 2004., Chisinau, Moldova.

2.      Zoran Jovanovic, Branko Marovic, Lovro Ilijasic, Jovana Vuleta, Vukasin Radulovic: Infrastructure and integration of multi-media in the HIS of Belgrad Children's University, EUROPACS2004, September 2004, Trieste.

3.      Zoran Krstic, Zoran Jovanovic, Branko Marovic: Belgrade Children's University Hospital HIS and future telemedical cooperation, EUROPACS2004, September 2004, Trieste.

4.      Z. Jovanovic, S. Gajin, M. Bukvic, P. Vuletic, Dj. Vulovic: The optical NREN of Serbia and Montenegro, Fourth Yugoslavia-Japan Joint Workshop on Computer Simulation Science (3JW), September 2004, Tara, Yugoslavia

5.      Z. Jovanovic, S. Gajin, M. Bukvic, P. Vuletic, Dj. Vulovic: The optical NREN of Serbia and Montenegro – new solutions in infrastructure and monitoring, TERENA 2004, http://www.terena.nl/conferences/tnc2004, Rodos, Greece

6.      Z. Jovanovic, S. Gajin: Network of Serbia & Montenegro, Thesalloniki, SEEREN inauguration event, January 2004.

7.      Z. Jovanovic:New Gigabit Backbone for Yugoslav Education and Research Network” Third Yugoslavia-Japan Joint Workshop on Computer Simulation Science (3JW), 2-4 September 2002, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

8.      Z. Jovanović: SinSEE/SinYU – opening the road for future SEE scientific cooperation, UNESCO Workshop on SEE networking, Paris, june 2002.

9.      Z. Jovanovic: “Web approach for analyzing 3D Scalar and Vector Datasets" Second Yugoslavia-Japan Joint Workshop on Computer Simulation Science (3JW), National Institute for Fusion Science Toki-shi, Gifu, September 17-19, 2001, Japan

10. Z. Jovanovic, S. Gajin: “Simulation of the Turn Model” First  Yugoslavia-Japan Joint Workshop on Computer Simulation Science (3JW), 1-2 September 2000,, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

 

DOMESTIC JOURNALS

1.      Nenad Jovanovic, Ranko Popovic, Zoran Jovanovic: “Defining general object model of distributed systems entities in Java”, Facta Universitatis, University of Nis, vol. 16. aug. 2003., 185-194

 

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

1.      Zoran Jovanović, Branko Marović, Lovro Ilijašić, Jovana Vuleta, Mara Bukvić: "Belgrade Children’s University Hospital’s Infrastructure, HIS and Grid-Based 3D Visualization", TERENA Networking Conference 2005, Poznan, Poland, 6 - 9 June 2005. (Rated by participants as the best paper at the conference) http://www.terena.nl/conferences/tnc2005/programme/people/show.php?person_id=972

2.      Z. Jovanović, S. Gajin, M. Bukvic, P. Vuletic, Dj. Vulović: "The optical NREN of Serbia and Montenegro – new solutions in infrastructure and monitoring", TERENA Networking Conference 2004, http://www.terena.nl/conferences/tnc2004, Rodos, Greece http://www.terena.nl/conferences/tnc2004/programme/people/show.php?person_id=167

3.      Branko Marović, Branislav Čukanović, Ivica Barišić, Zoran Jovanović, "Web-based grid-enabled visualization of 3D medical data", European Information Society Technologies (IST) 2004 Event, November 15-17, 2004, Netherlands Congress Centre, The Hague, Netherlands

4.      Zoran Jovanović, Slavko Gajin: Access to dark fiber in Serbia & Montenegro, SEEREN inauguration event, January 2004, Aristotle UniversityThessalloniki.

5.      Zoran Jovanović, Slavko Gajin: How the importance of the NREN is perceived in S&M, Advanced Networking Workshop - Policy Issues for NRENs in South East Europe, September 2003, Varna, Bulgaria.

6.      Djordje Vulovic, Dejan Brkic, Zoran Jovanovic, "LDAP-based DNS Management System", RoEduNet Conference Iasi June 5-6, 2003.

7.      Zoran Jovanović: New Gigabit Backbone for Yugoslav Research and Education Network, FP5 SEEREN Kick off meeting, Athens 2002

 

INVITED PAPERS AT NATIONAL CONFERENCES

  1. Zoran Jovanović, Pavle Vuletić, Đorđe Vulović: “Optical technologies in computer networks“, YUNGINFO 2005, Zlatibor, December 2005.
  2. Zoran Jovanović: Advantages of IPv6 protocol, Informatika 2005, New trends, Belgrade 10.5.2005.
  3. Zoran Jovanović: “Alternative optical backbone and national information infrastructure“, YUNGINFO 2002, Zlatibor, Decembar 2002.
  4. Zoran Jovanović: “Strategy of the government of Serbia in the area of elektronic industry, informatics and telecommunications“, Infoteh 2002, Vrnjačka Banja, 2002.
  5. Zoran Jovanović: “Strategy of the government of Serbia in ICT, Infofest 2002, Budva.
  6. Zoran Jovanović: “New Gigabit Backbone for Yugoslav Research and Education Network, 3rd Yugoslavia-Japan Joint Workshop on Computer Simulation Science, September 1-4, 2002, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
  7. Zoran Jovanović: “Assessing infrastructure“, Building an ICT Investment Strategy in Yugoslavia, International Conference, December 3 - 4, 2001, Sava Center, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
  8. Zoran Jovanović, Branko Marović: “Virtual Medical Examination by using 3D Multimodal Analysis", 7th International inter university scientific meeting academy of Studenica - Telemedicine, Studenica, May 2001.