Stjepan Bogdan

Stjepan Bogdan, Ph.D. is a Full Professor at the Laboratory for Robotics and Intelligent Control Systems (LARICS), Department on Control and Computer Engineering, University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (UNIZG-FER), where he teaches several courses in robotics and automation. His research interests include autonomous systems, aerial robotics, multi-agent systems, intelligent control systems, bio-inspired systems and discrete event systems. He spent one year as Fulbright researcher at the Automation and Robotics Research Institute, Arlington, USA, in Prof. Frank Lewis’ lab.

He is a co-author of 4 books and has published more than 180 conference and journal papers. He was the Principal Investigator and a researcher on 24 national and international scientific projects. Currently, he is involved in 5 EU H2020 projects (HORSE, ENCORE, subCULTron, RoboCom++ and ACROSS) and coordinates 2 projects: NATO-SpS international project MORUS and H2020 Twinning project AeroTwin.

He served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Automation Science and Engineering. Currently, he is an Associate Editor of Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems; International Review of Mechanical Engineering (IREME); Transactions of the Institute of Measurement & Control; Journal of Control Theory and Applications. He served as a Program Committee member of major control and robotics conferences. He was Program Chair of IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, ISIC2011, Denver, USA, General Chair of IEEE Multi-conference on Systems and Control, MSC2012, Dubrovnik, Croatia, and General Chair of 2018 Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation. He is a member of KoREMA and IEEE senior member. He is appointed as a member of IEEE Technical Committee on Intelligent Control, representative of Croatia at European Union Control Association (EUCA), representative of Croatia in H2020 Program committee on Space and was a vice-chair of Croatian Robotics Society.

He is recipient of Bronze Plaque “Josip Lončar” (1990-achievements as a student); Silver Plaque “Josip Lončar” (1993 – exceptional Master Thesis); The Croatian Society of University Teachers’s, “Best Young Scientist” award from 2000; “Science Award” (2013 – exceptional achievement in scientific research – FER Faculty Council), “Fran Bošnjaković” award (2015 – exceptional achievements in science and education – University of Zagreb).