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Mladen Kovačević was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1984. He obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering (communications and signal processing) from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia, where he is currently an Associate Professor. From October 2015 to May 2018 he worked as a Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore, and from March to August 2023 as a Senior Researcher at the Eurecom institute in France. In 2024 he was a Visiting Scientist at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, supported by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His research interests include information theory, coding theory, and cryptography. He is an IEEE Senior Member and serves on the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

Education

  • PhD   in   Electrical and Computer Engineering   (2014)
    Institution:   Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
    Advisors:   Dejan Vukobratović,   Vojin Šenk

  • MSc   in   Electrical and Computer Engineering   (2007)
    Institution:   Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
    Study program:   Communications and Signal Processing

Work Experience

  • Assistant/Associate Professor,   Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
    (Department of Electrical Engineering / Communications and Signal Processing Group)
    01/2020 – present

  • Adjunct Professor,   Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
    (Department of Mathematics and Informatics)
    10/2020 – present

  • Senior Researcher,   EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France
    (Communication Systems Department / Foundations and Algorithms Group,   PI: Marios Kountouris)
    03–08/2023

  • Senior Researcher,   BioSense Institute, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
    (Information Technologies Group)
    06/2018 – 01/2020

  • Research Fellow,   National University of Singapore, Singapore
    (Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering,   PI: Vincent Y. F. Tan)
    10/2015 – 05/2018

  • Assistant Professor,   Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
    (Department of Electrical Engineering / Communications and Signal Processing Group)
    05–09/2015

  • Teaching and Research Assistant,   Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
    (Department of Electrical Engineering / Communications and Signal Processing Group)
    01/2009 – 04/2015

Visiting Positions

  • Visiting Scientist,   Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
    (Department of Information and System Sciences / Cryptography Group,  Host: Krzysztof Pietrzak)
    01–02 & 06–07/2024

Teaching

  • Information theory   (MSc level,   2020– )

  • Cryptography   (MSc level,   2020– )

  • Signals and systems   (BSc level,   2020– )

  • Digital communications   (BSc level,   2012–2015,   2020– )

  • Computer networks,   Communication networks   (BSc level,   2008–2015)

Recognitions

  • Joint Excellence in Science and Humanities (JESH) fellowship, Austrian Academy of Sciences   (2023/24)

  • Editorial Board member, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory   (2023–)

  • IEEE Senior Member   (2021)

Service to the Scientific Community

  • Editorial boards:

    • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory   (Associate Editor,   03/2023 – )

  • Conference program committees:

    • TPC member:   IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2025

  • Reviewing:

    • Journals:   IEEE Transactions on Information Theory,   IEEE Transactions on Communications,   IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory,   IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing,   IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering,   IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications,   IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience,   IEEE Communications Letters,
      Proceedings of the Royal Society A,   Journal of Combinatorial Theory (Series A),   European Journal of Combinatorics,   Discrete Mathematics,   Designs, Codes and Cryptography,   Cryptography and Communications,   Computational and Applied Mathematics,   Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences,   Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications,   etc.

    • Conferences:   IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT),   IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW),   National Conference on Communications (NCC), India

    • Mathematical Reviews database (MathSciNet)

    • Grants:   European Research Council (ERC)

Short Research Visits, Workshops, Summer Schools

*Conferences where full papers were presented and published in the corresponding proceedings are listed in the Research section

  • London Lattice Coding & Crypto Meeting,   *Invited talk
    Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, March 15, 2024.

  • Visit to the group of Xiaolu Hou,
    Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia, October 3–7, 2023.

  • Visit to the group of Vladimir Stanković,
    University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, December 15–22, 2022.

  • Visit to the group of Han Mao Kiah,
    Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, August 20–30, 2022.

  • IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT),
    Espoo/Helsinki, Finland, June 26 – July 1, 2022.

  • Munich Workshop on Coding and Cryptography (MWCC),
    TU Munich, Germany, June 22–24, 2022.

  • H2020 INCOMING Summer School,
    Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, June 13–17, 2022.

  • Visit to the group of Čedomir Stefanović,
    Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 26–30, 2022.

  • Visit to the group of Alexandre Graell i Amat,
    Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, March 23–26, 2022.

  • Japan-Singapore Workshop on Coding and Information Theory,
    Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, March 4–7, 2018.

  • Novi Sad Workshop on Foundations of Computer Science (NSFOCS),
    Novi Sad, Serbia, July 17–19, 2017.

  • International Seminar on Algebra and Coding Theory (INSACT),   *Invited talk
    St Berchmans College, Changanassery, Kerala, India, February 8–10, 2017.

  • Network Coding and Designs conference,   *Invited talk
    Dubrovnik, Croatia, April 4–8, 2016.

  • Swedish Summer School in Computer Science (S3CS),
    KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, June 28 – July 4, 2015.
    Coding theory courses by Venkatesan Guruswami and Sergey Yekhanin.

  • European School of Information Theory (ESIT),
    Zandvoort, The Netherlands, April 20–24, 2015.

  • Algebraic Combinatorics and Applications (ALCOMA) conference,
    Kloster Banz, Germany, March 16–20, 2015.
    (Conference in memory of Axel Kohnert)

  • SP Coding and Information School,
    UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil, January 19–30, 2015.

  • Algebra, Codes and Networks (ACN) conference,
    Bordeaux, France, June 16–20, 2014.

  • European School of Information Theory (ESIT),
    Tallinn, Estonia, April 14–18, 2014.

  • Workshop in Combinatorics,
    Szeged, Hungary, March 7–9, 2014.

  • Conference on Random Network Codes and Designs over GF(q),
    Ghent, Belgium, September 16–20, 2013.

  • Visit to the group of Petar Popovski,
    Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, June 2–15, 2013.

  • European School of Information Theory (ESIT),
    Ohrid, Macedonia, April 22–26, 2013.

  • First European Training School on Network Coding,
    UAB, Barcelona, Spain, February 4–8, 2013.

  • BMS (Berlin Mathematical School) Summer School on Random Motions and Random Graphs,
    TU Berlin, Germany, September 26 – October 7, 2011.

  • SMI Summer School (Scuola Matematica Interuniversitaria),   *Held every year, highly recommended
    University of Perugia, Italy, August 2 – September 3, 2010.
    Courses taken:   Algebraic Geometry,   Differential Geometry.

  • Spatial Network Models for Wireless Communications workshop,
    Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (INIMS), Cambridge, UK, April 6–9, 2010.

  • Summer School on Provable Security,
    UPC, Barcelona, Spain, September 7–11, 2009.

  • AARMS (Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences) Summer School,   *Held every year, highly recommended
    University of New Brunswick, Canada, July 12 – August 8, 2009.
    Courses taken:   Cryptography,   Introduction to Quantum Computing.