team members

Edouard Ivanjko

Principal Investigator

Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, University of Zagreb

Edouard Ivanjko is an Associate Professor at the Department of Intelligent Transportation Systems, Faculty of Traffic and Transport Sciences, University of Zagreb, where he teaches courses related to computer science, electrical engineering, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and traffic control. He is a member of the Centre of Research Excellence for Data Science and Advanced Cooperative Systems, Research unit Data Science. Personal research interests include intelligent transportation systems, modeling, and simulation of road networks, including mixed traffic flows containing connected autonomous vehicles and artificial intelligence applications in road traffic control.

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Tonči Carić

Senior Researcher

Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, University of Zagreb

Tonči Carić received his B.Sc. and the M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb in 1993 and 2000 respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2004 from the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering, University of Zagreb. He is currently working at the Department of Intelligent Transportation Systems, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Science, University of Zagreb as a Full Professor and Head of Chair for Applied Computing. He participated as a researcher in R&D projects funded by European Commission, national research projects, and professional projects in cooperation with industry. His main research interests are combinatorial optimization, moving object databases, and intelligent transportation systems. He is a member of INFORMS, IEEE, and the Scientific Council for Traffic at the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

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Daniela Koltovska Nechoska

Senior Researcher

Faculty of Technical Sciences, St. Kliment Ohridski University – Bitola, Northern Macedonia

Daniela Koltovska Nechoska is an Associate Professor at the Department of Traffic and Transport, Faculty of Technical Sciences, St. Kliment Ohridski University – Bitola, where she teaches courses related to traffic management and control, intelligent transport systems, modeling and simulation of road networks, traffic operations analysis, and design. Personal research focuses on intelligent transport systems, the application of artificial intelligence in road traffic control (smart cities), modeling and simulation of road networks, and navigation of autonomous vehicles.

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Ivana Dusparić

Senior Researcher

Trinity College Dublin

Ivana Dusparic is a Ussher Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin. 

Her research interests lie in the use of artificial intelligence, and reinforcement learning in particular, to achieve optimization of large-scale heterogeneous infrastructures, with a primary focus on optimization of resource use in smart cities. She has published over 50 peer-reviewed publications in the area of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems, intelligent mobility, and smart energy grid.

Her research is funded through a number of Science Foundation Ireland and Irish Research Council projects. She is a co-director of the SFI Centre for Research Training in Artificial Intelligence (2019-2026); a funded investigator in the CONNECT research center, working on the Enable smart cities research programme (2017-2021); principal investigator of SATORI, SFI-funded collaboration with Tsinghua University on Smart Networking in the Era of AI (2018-2022), and was a co-principal investigator in Surpass, a multi-disciplinary project investigating the impact of autonomous vehicles on cities (2016-2019).

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René Schumann

Senior Researcher

Institute of Information Systems

René Schumann studied computer science at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany. From 2004 to 2007 he worked at the R&D division of business information management at the OFFIS Institute for Information Technology, Oldenburg. During his time at OFFIS he established the logistics group within the research division. 

From 2007 to 2010 he was employed as a researcher in the information systems and simulation group headed by Prof. Dr. Ingo J. Timm at the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. He received his PhD. in 2010. The title of his thesis was Engineering Coordination A Methodology for the Coordination of Planning Systems.

From 11/2010 until 05/2011 he was a DAAD Researcher at the National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan. During this time he started to work on Distributed Constraint problems.

In June 2011 he joined the Applied Intelligent Systems Lab at the University of Applied Science Western Switzerland(HES-SO). There he worked as a post-doc in the field of eHealth.

Since 10/2012 he has been appointed as a Professor at the HES-SO, working in particular in the fields of energy systems and mobility.

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Martin Gregurić

Researcher

Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, University of Zagreb

Martin Gregurić is currently employed as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Faculty of Traffic and Transport Sciences, University of Zagreb. He teaches courses related to the fundamentals of ITS, computer science, artificial intelligence, and traffic control. He is the head of the Laboratory for data science in traffic and logistics. Personal research interests include the application of data science in traffic flow analytics, modeling, and simulation of road networks, and application of machine learning in road traffic control.

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Mladen Miletić

Young Researcher

Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, University of Zagreb

Mladen Miletić is an Assistant and a doctoral student at the Department of Intelligent Transportation Systems, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, University of Zagreb, where he teaches the courses: Computer Science, Algorithms and Programming, and Artificial Intelligence. His research interests are in the domain of intelligent transportation systems, simulation of urban traffic, and application of artificial intelligence to road traffic control.

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Filip Vrbanić

Young Researcher

Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, University of Zagreb

Filip Vrbanić is an assistant at the Department of Intelligent Transportation Systems, Faculty of Traffic and Transport Sciences, University of Zagreb in the engineering sciences, field technology of traffic and transport. In October 2019. he enrolled in the Ph.D. study “Traffic and Transportation“ at the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences (study advisor: Assoc. Prof. Edouard Ivanjko, Ph. D.). Personal research interests include intelligent transportation systems, modeling, and simulation of road networks, including mixed traffic flows containing connected and autonomous vehicles and application of artificial intelligence in road traffic control. The main research interest is the control of mixed traffic flows on urban motorways with the application of machine learning algorithms.

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Krešimir Kušić

Young Researcher

Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, University of Zagreb

Krešimir Kušić is working as a research assistant at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, in the Department of Intelligent Transportation Systems. He is partially involved in lectures: Computer science, Systems of apparent reality in traffic, Operations research, and Intelligent transportation systems. He devoted his professional career to traffic flow analysis and artificial Intelligence aiming to apply those (specifically Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning) to traffic control on urban highways.


Željko Majstorović

Young Researcher

Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, University of Zagreb

Željko Majstorović is an assistant at the Department of Intelligent Transportation Systems, Faculty of Traffic and Transport Sciences, the University of Zagreb in the engineering sciences, field technology of traffic and transport. The Croatian Science Foundation finances him in the scope of the call “DOK-2021-02 Young Researcher’ Career Development Project – Training New Doctoral Students,” participating with his research on the DLASIUT project. In October 2021. he enrolled in the Ph.D. study “Traffic and Transportation“ at the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences (study advisor: Assoc. Prof. Edouard Ivanjko, Ph. D. and Prof. Tonči Carić, Ph. D.). His personal research interests are in the domain of intelligent transportation systems, modeling, and simulation of urban road networks focused on controlling intersections with the application of machine learning algorithms.


Dino Čakija

Young Researcher

Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, University of Zagreb

Along with running a private company, from 2014., Dino Čakija has been involved in lecturing at the Faculty of Traffic Sciences in Zagreb in Computer Science and Algorithms and Programming courses. In 2017, he was employed at the Faculty of Traffic Sciences of the University of Zagreb to work as a full-time lecturer and participated in the promotion and lecturing in Computer Science and Algorithms and Programming. In November 2017, he enrolled in a Ph.D. study at the Faculty of Transport Sciences under the title “Technological Systems in Transport and Transport”. Since November 2018, he has been a member of the Quality Management Committee in accordance with the decision of the Council of Faculty of Traffic Sciences. His research interests are focused on connected and automated vehicle management and the application of artificial intelligence to mixed traffic control.


Sadko Mandžuka

Former Member (Senior Researcher)

Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, University of Zagreb

Prof. Sadko Mandzuka was Head of the Intelligent Transport System Department, Faculty of Traffic and Transport Sciences, University of Zagreb. He has wide experience in the area of Intelligent transport systems, Traffic incident management systems, Advanced control traffic systems, Journey Planners Development, Traffic modeling, etc. He had the opportunity to work both in academic and industrial environments including Brodarski Institute Ltd, consulting in the Innovation Area for SMEs, etc.

Prof. Mandzuka is a president of ITS-Croatia, Collaborating member of the Croatian Academy of Engineering, a Founding member of the Croatian Robotic Association, and a member of the Technical Committee on Marine Systems (Coordinating Committee on Transportation and Vehicle Systems – IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control ), Senior Member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society, etc. Finally, he has served in the program committees and as a reviewer at several international congresses and conferences.

He is the author of more than 100 internationally reviewed publications. He is the editor of the Engineering Applications Section of the international scientific journal An International Journal of Control and Optimization: Theories & Applications (IJOCTA). Also, he is the Editor of the International Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems Research (Springer) and a member of the editorial board of the national journal Ceste i mostovi (Roads and Bridges).

Prof. Mandzuka was a project leader and collaborating member of several EU and national Research & Development projects. Now, he is CRO – Project leader of the OJP4Danube project (Coordination mechanisms for multimodal cross-border traveler information network based on OJP for the Danube Region) and collaborator on the H2020 TODO project (Twinning Open Data Operational).