Slobodan Djukanovic
Siemens, s.r.o
Czechia
Slobodan Djukanovic was born on July 4, 1976, in Valjevo, Serbia. He completed his elementary and secondary education in electrical engineering in Lajkovac, Republic of Serbia. He earned his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Montenegro (UoM), Podgorica, in 2001, 2004, and 2008, respectively. Following his doctoral studies, he pursued postdoctoral research (July 2008 – June 2009) at GIPSA-lab, a research unit of CNRS in Grenoble, France, under the supervision of Professor Nadine Martin. During this period, he contributed to the implementation of the CNRS-funded TetrAS project. From December 2015 to July 2016, he served as a visiting professor at the Università degli Studi di Napoli “Parthenope” in Naples, Italy, where he taught the doctoral-level course Fourier Analysis and Instantaneous Frequency Estimation at the Department of Engineering. Between June 2015 and November 2017, he was the Scientific Director of Montenegro’s first Centre of Excellence, BIO-ICT. From August 2019 to November 2020, he worked as a full-time researcher at the Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Cybernetics, on the project Audio-Visual Object Classification and Sound Event Recognition by Unsupervised Co-Training. Between July 2019 and November 2023, he held the position of Full Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Montenegro. In addition to his professorial duties, he served as Vice Dean for Development and Research at the Faculty from August 2022 to November 2023. His teaching activities encompassed topics in computer engineering, procedural and object-oriented programming, and deep learning. He has authored or co-authored four textbooks in the field of programming. His research interests span digital signal processing, machine learning, deep learning, spectral analysis, time-frequency signal analysis, and parameter estimation. He has published 94 scientific papers, including 31 articles in international journals. A complete list of his publications is available at http://www.tfsa.ac.me/slobodan_papers.html. In November 2023, he relocated to Prague, Czech Republic, where he currently serves as an Architect for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence at Siemens.