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Interests
- Navigation & localization
- System design & integration
- Software engineering
Work Experience
- Senior robotics engineer, 2024 - present, OTIV, Ghent, Belgium
- Senior software engineer, 2022 - 2024, Oqton, Ghent, Belgium
- Senior software engineer, 2021, The Toadi Order / EEVE, Waregem, Belgium
- Senior roboticist, 2019 - 2021, Oqton, Ghent, Belgium
- Robotics lead and senior software engineer, 2017 - 2019, The Kobi Company, Heverlee, Belgium
- Senior roboticist, 2016 - 2017, Intermodalics, Heverlee, Belgium
- Controls engineer, 2015 - 2016, Punch Powertrain, Sint-Truiden, Belgium
- Engineering intern, 2013, Ampyx Power, The Hague, The Netherlands
- R&D engineer, 2010, Robotics laboratory, Mihajlo Pupin Institute, Belgrade, Serbia
- R&D engineer, 2008 - 2009, Laboratory for digital control of power converters and drives, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Education
PhD in Control Engineering
2010 - 2015, KU Leuven, Belgium
I have been lucky to do an applied PhD, which later enabled me to make a somehow smooth transition from academia to industry. A big chunk of my time I spent developing software for fast MPC & MHE based on automatic code generation. Enhanced implementations yielded up to order of magnitude speedups compared to existing ones. Next to developing the software, I was heavily involved in the experimental validations of MPC & MHE on a couple of challenging real-world applications.
- Thesis: “Embedded Model Predictive Control and Moving Horizon Estimation for Mechatronics Applications” PDF
- Supervisor: Professor Moritz Diehl
MSc in Control Engineering
2002 - 2008, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia
In the beginning, I had an idea to study computer science and AI. By the time we have had to choose a more focused direction, I figured out the AI curriculum was shady and CS was too dry. Eventually, I chose control engineering and later focused on control of electrical drives and robotics.
Following a five year program, I have graduated at the Signals and Systems Department.
- Diploma thesis: “Design of software solutions based on USB interface for real-time measurement and control applications”
- Supervisor: Professor Slobodan N. Vukosavić
Secondary education
1998 - 2002, Mathematical Grammar School, Serbia
At some point, I became fascinated by neural networks and their prediction capabilities. Eventually, I chose for my final project to make an overview of neural nets both from mathematical and biological perspectives.