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PhD

University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia

• Field - Computer science
• Thesis title - Programming model for heterogeneous computing systems with customizable accelerators

MSc

University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia

• Field - Computer engineering
• Thesis title - Recommender systems in ubiquituous computing

Postdoctoral research fellow

University of Bologna

• Key skills - Research
• I am a Postdoctoral research fellow in the group led by prof. Giuseppe Tagliavini (Dipartimento di Informatica - Scienza e Ingegneria (DISI) at Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna)
• Compiler-centered research for PULP-based (Parallel Ultra Low Power) energy-efficient heterogeneous systems
• Research is performed in terms of compiler optimizations and compiler support for customized hardware developed under the PULP platform
• Project pages are available at https://pulp-platform.org/

Postdoctoral researcher

University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia

• Key skills - Research, teaching, leadership, mentoring
• Performing research, teaching, and student mentoring activities
• Completed training in the development of teaching and mentoring skills
• TAs and Postdocs representative to Faculty Council and adhering workgroups
• I am participating in the following courses
  • Computer Architecture 1R (Undergraduate)
  • Open Computing (Undergraduate & Graduate)
  • Parallelism and Concurrency (Undergraduate & Graduate)
  • Reverse Engineering and Malware Analysis (Undergraduate & Graduate)

Visiting researcher

The University of Edinburgh

• Key skills - Research
• I was a visiting researcher in the group led by prof. Michel Steuwer (School of Informatics at The University of Edinburgh)
• During this visit, I worked on performance evaluation of the generated code and on advanced memory management schemes for GAP8 platform in RISE & Shine
• Github project repo is available at https://github.com/rise-lang/shine

Research and teaching assistant

University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia

• Key skills - Research, teaching
• Performing research and teaching activities
• I was participating as a teaching assistant in the following courses
  • Computer Architecture 1R (Undergraduate)
  • Open Computing (Undergraduate & Graduate)
  • Parallelism and Concurrency (Undergraduate & Graduate)
  • Reverse Engineering and Malware Analysis (Undergraduate & Graduate)

Software engineer

Green Light Technologies Ltd.

Visiting researcher [Remote]

The University of Edinburgh

• During this remote collaboration, I worked on integrating Rise, a functional pattern-based data-parallel language into heterogeneous, energy-efficient, embedded devices.

Lecturer

University Computing Centre

• Held lectures for "Introduction to PHP and MySQL" course.

Software engineer

Croatian bishop conference

• Key skills - PHP, MySQL, Wordpress, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• This position was a part time job which consisted of maintaining custom CMS solution, and building new one using Wordpress CMS.
• I developed custom widgets and plugins on backend, and customized theme on frontend.

Junior software engineer

Sedam IT

• Key skills - Java, C#, .NET 4.5, JavaScript, Scala, Cisco
• I was working as a junior software engineer in Research and development unit where I was developing for various platforms
• (Intern March 2015 - November 2015, Full time November 2015 - April 2016)

Software engineering intern

Ericsson

• Key skills - Java, Android, OpenCV, REST, Google Glass
• As a part of Ericsson Summer camp, I worked on a project named “Google Glass shopping” which was extension to the Ericsson Wallet platform.
• My tasks were mainly on back–end in sense of coding face detection and face recognition subsystem exposed via RESTful API in Java using Jersey framework and Glassfish server. (Java, Android, OpenCV).

Student assistant

University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing

• Key skills - PHP, MySQL, HTML, JavaScript
• I was student assistant on Course “PHP Application development basics”. My responsibilities were to help students with solving problems given at the lectures and to grade and review students home assignments.

Academic visitation

• A visit to the professor Michel Steuwer's research group, March 2023, Edinburgh, UK

ACACES 2021

• Seventeenth International Summer School on Advanced Computer Architecture and Compilation for High-Performance and Embedded Systems, September 2021, Fiuggi, Italy

Academic visitation

• Professor Philip A. Wilsey, March 2019, Cincinnati, USA

ACACES 2019

• Fifteenth International Summer School on Advanced Computer Architecture and Compilation for High-Performance and Embedded Systems, July 2019, Fiuggi, Italy

Academic visitation

• Professor Lennart Johnsson's research group, February 2018, Houston, USA

• Research Fellowship for a one year stay at Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
• Academic Mobility Grant by the University of Zagreb for a visit to the University of Edinburgh

• Academic Mobility Grant by the University of Zagreb for a visit to the University of Edinburgh

• HiPEAC Collaboration grant for a visit to the University of Edinburgh - realised in 2022
• Academic Mobility Grant by the University of Zagreb for ACACES 2021 Summer school
• HiPEAC grant for the ACACES 2021 Summer school

• HiPEAC Collaboration grant for a visit to ETH Zurich
• USENIX Student grant for USENIX Security Symposium
• HiPEAC Travel grant for HiPEAC Conference in Valencia
• HiPEAC grant for the ACACES 2019 Summer school
• Academic Mobility grant by the University of Zagreb for a visit to the University of Cincinnati

• Academic Mobility grant by the University of Zagreb for a visit to the University of Houston

• Extensible Compiler to the Rescue - From a High-Level Language to a Heterogeneous System, Institute Jozef Stefan, Slovenia