Branko Koväevi¿ is a Senior Member of the IEEE; he received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, in 1984. In 1981, he joined the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, where he is currently Professor Emeritus. He is the author of eight books and more than 80 articles in scientific journals. His current research interests include robust estimation, system identification, adaptive and nonlinear filtering, optimal and adaptive control, and digital signal processing. He is a Member of the EURASIP, the WSAES, and the National Association ETRAN and a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Engineering Sciences of Serbia. He was the Recipient of the Outstanding Research Prize of the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Electronics, the Prize of the Serbian Association for Informatics, and the Prize of the Association of Radio Systems Engineers. He is Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the IFAC journal Automatica, and Signal Processing.
?eljko ¿urovi¿ received his Ph.D. degree from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1994. His M.Sc. was from the field of multiple target tracking (supervised by Prof. Sr¿an Stankovi¿), while his Ph.D. was from the field of estimation theory and supervised by Prof. Branko Koväevi¿.
Professor ¿urovi¿ was with the Research and Development Institute for Telecommunications, Belgrade Yugoslavia, Radars Department, from 1988 to 1989. Since 1989 he has been with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, where he is currently Full Professor of Automatic Control. He held a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Instituto Superior Technico, Lisbon, Portugal from January-October 2000. He spent the period October 2000-April 2002 in Visteon GmbH, Koeln, Germany, as a Control Specialist developing control strategies for CO2 refrigeration systems in the automotive industry. He currently teaches different undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the Department of Signals and Systems.
Zoran Banjac received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia, in 1998 and 2004, respectively; he is a Member of the IEEE. After graduating, he worked at the Institute for Applied Mathematics and Electronics, IPME, Belgrade, where his last position was Head of Scientific Research. From 2004 to 2007, he was an assistant professor with Singidunum University, Belgrade. From 2006 to 2017, he was Professor of Applied Studies at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Belgrade. He has been with the Vlatacom Institute, where he is Head of the Crypto Department, since 2017. He is the author of four books, more than 50 papers published in international and national journals and conferences, and four technical solutions. His current research interests include the design of crypto protection systems and signal processing.
