Dr. Nebojša Bačanin-Džakula
Vice-rector for Scientific Research, Singidunum University
Dr. Nebojša Bačanin-Džakula received his Ph.D. degree from the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade in 2015 (study program Computer Science, average grade 10,00). The external Committee Member for his PhD thesis defence was one of the greatest world scholars from the domain of artificial intelligence, specifically metaheuristics optimization (creator of a dozen state-of-the-art swarm intelligence algorithms), Professor Xin-She Yang, from Middlesex University, London, UK.
Nebojša Bačanin-Džakula started University career in Serbia 18 years ago at Graduate School of Computer Science in Belgrade. He currently works as a Full Professor, Head of study program Applied Artificial Intelligence and as a Vice-Rector for Scientific Research at Singidunum University, Belgrade, Serbia. Dr Nebojša Bačanin-Džakula is involved in scientific research in the field of computer science and his specialties includes stochastic optimization algorithms, swarm intelligence, machine learning, soft computing, optimization and modelling, image processing and cloud and distributed computing.
He has published more than 400 scientific papers (more than 150 papers indexed in Clarivate Analytics SCIE) in high quality journals, articles as the book chapters and international conferences indexed in Clarivate Analytics JCR, Scopus, WoS, IEEExplore, and other scientific databases. He has also published 4 books from domains of Cloud Computing, Web Programming and Advanced Java Spring Programming. He is a member of numerous editorial boards, scientific and advisory committees of international conferences and journals and regular reviewer for international journals with high Clarivate Analytics and WoS impact factor.
He also serves Associate Editor and as Guest Editor of many outstanding international journals indexed in Clarivate Analytics SCIE. He has also been included in the prestigious Stanford University list with 2% best world researchers from the domain of Artificial Intelligence, that encompasses whole career, for the years 2021 and 2022, while according to the AD Scientific Index” (Alper-Doger Scientific Index) he is currently ranked as the 1st best researcher in Serbia from the domain of Computer Science.