Biography
Stjepan Bogdan, PhDEE, is Full Professor at the Laboratory for Robotics and Intelligent Control Systems (LARICS – https://larics.fer.hr/larics), Department on Control and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb (UNIZG-FER), where he teaches several courses in robotics and automation. From October 1st, 2022, he is appointed Vice-Dean for Research and Innovation at UNIZG-FER. His research interests include autonomous systems, aerial robotics, multi-agent systems, intelligent control systems, bio-inspired systems, and discrete event systems. He is a co-author of 4 books and has published more than 200 scientific papers. He was the Principal Investigator and a researcher on more than 30 national and international research projects. He served as an Associate Editor of several scientific journals and was a PC member and AE of major control and robotics conferences. He is IEEE senior member, and appointed member of IEEE Tech. Comm. on Intelligent Control and IEEE Tech. Comm. on Aerial Robotics. He was representative of Croatia at European Union Control Association (EUCA) and in H2020 Program committee on Space. He was Program Committee member of Horizon Europe Cluster 4 – Digital, Industry and Space.
He spent 1996/1997 as a Fulbright scholar at Automation and Robotics Research Institute, The University of Texas at Arlington, under supervision of Prof. Frank Lewis.