Miroslav Popovic

Miroslav Popovic, the full Prof. and the head of the Chair of Computer Engineering at the Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. Miroslav Popovic, Ph.D., received all his degrees from University of Novi Sad, Serbia: he defended his diploma thesis An Intelligent System Restart in 1984, M.Sc. thesis An Efficient Virtual Machine System in 1988, and Ph.D. thesis A Contribution to Standardization of ISO OSI Presentation Layer in 1990. He became a full-time Professor at the University of Novi Sad in 2002. Currently he is giving courses on software tools and real-time systems programming, as well as on Inter computer communications and computer networks. He is a member of IEEE (both Computer and Communications societies) and ACM. He has published about 120 papers and he has supervised many real-world projects for the industry, including telephone exchanges and call centers for Russian, German, Czech, and Serbian telecommunication network. Taylor & Francis published his book Communication Protocol Engineering in 2006. He served as Serbian MC Member in EU COST 297 High Altitude Platforms of wireless communications, EU COST IC0703 Traffic Monitoring and Analysis, and EU COST Action IC1001 Transactional Memories (Euro-TM). His current research interests are engineering of computer-based systems, parallel programming, distributed systems, and security.