Dr. Branko D. KovaÃÂeviÃÂ
Dr. Branko D. Kovačević
Branko D. Kovačević was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia on 29 June, 1951. He received
the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Belgrade in 1975, 1980,
and 1984, respectively. From 1975 to 1977 he was a research associate in the
Computer Science Labaratory, Institute Mihailo Pupin, Belgrade. From 1977 to 1981 he
was a research fellow in the Department of Automatic Control, Military Institute of
Technology, Belgrade. In 1981 he joined the Faculty of Electrical Engineering,
University of Belgrade, where he is presently Full Professor, teaching courses in control
systems theory and its applications. He was awarded the Engineers Prize of the
Economic Council of Belgrade, The Dušan Mitrović Prize of the Yugoslav Society of
Electrical Engineers (ETRAN) , the Branko Raković Prize of the Faculty of Electrical
Engineering, the Outstanding Research Prize of the Institute of Applied Mathematics
and Electronics, and the Teaching Prize of the University Students Council. He is also a
member of IEEE, a member of EURASIP, a member of ETRAN, the President of ETRAN
Section for Automatic Control, the President of ETRAN Program comitte and the Editor
in chief of the Journal of Automatic Control ( published by the Belgrade University
Press). Dr. Kovačević was also a visiting professor at the Florida State University, as
well as a lecturer at the European Institute for System Sciences. Dr. Kovačević is
author of eight books and over 90 scientific journal papers and 200 conference papers.
He was also the supervisor of nearly 100 Diploma engineering thesis, 40 M.Sc. thesis
and 10 Ph.D. thesis. His research intereststs lie in the field of estimation, system
identification, adaptive control and digital signal processing.
