Vanja Smailovic, M.Sc.
He received his B.Sc. degree in Computing at the Department of Telecommunications, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in 2009, as well as M.Sc. degree in 2011. The same year he enrolled in the postgraduate study (PhD) at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing and is currently in his final year of the doctoral programme.
He participates as a principal researcher in the project “Ericsson Context-Aware Social Networking for Mobile Media” funded by the World Bank through Unity Through Knowledge Fund, contracted by Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Ericsson Nikola Tesla and Unity Through Knowledge Fund. Additionally, he participates as a technical co-ordinator in a industrial research project “A Platform for Context-Aware Social Networking of Mobile Users (SmartSocial)”, contracted between Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing and Ericsson Nikola Tesla R&D Centre.
- M.Sc. (2011, Information and communication technology, University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing)
- B.Sc. (2009, Computing, University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing)
- Social networking technologies
- Context-aware services
- Personalized services
- User profiling, User profile modeling
- Big data technologies, Data monetization
- Ubiquitous/pervasive computing systems
- Ericsson Växthus Competition Winner for prototype titled “Gift Personalisation for Telco Subscribers” in the category of Data Exposure For Monetization (2013). Awarded by Ericsson AB
- 15th University of Zagreb Fair Award for the BSc thesis titled “RoboDance” (2010). Awarded by University of Zagreb