News

• work status - currently using Python & Pandas for doing time-series analysis of work traces collected by trying out different algorithms (some of which are open source) on our OpenStack cloud.
• teaching - potential topics for students updated below

About me

At the moment I am working as a research assistant and am enrolled for a PhD at the Vienna Univefrsity of Technology, focusing on energy efficiency in cloud computing on the HALEY project. I finished my bachelor's and master's degree in computer science at the Faculty of electrical engineering and computing, University of Zagreb. During my studies I participated in the Erasmus exchange program two times - I studied at the University of Vienna during both of these semesters. After graduation I started my PhD in Vienna and in parallel worked for a year as an external associate at the Ruđer Bošković Institute, dealing with machine learning methods for forecasting financial crises. More information is available in my short CV or (if you find reading CVs really fun) in my full CV.

Teaching

I supervise bachelor's and master's theses.

I am always looking forward to working with students with who are passionate about science, data analysis, programming (in Python, Java, C++, R and other groovy languages), cloud computing, open source software... or any subset thereof. Whether you like a practical, hands-on, software-engineering-ninja-hacker approach or a Victorian-scientist style of objectively analysing data, building models from empirical findings, looking at graphs and deducing facts (at this point you reset your monocle), we can find something to suit your interests.

Potential topics include:

• optimizing scheduling for volatile electricity prices and levels of environmental impact
• statistical analysis, time-series forecasting and modeling of collected datasets that include server power consumption traces and historical electricity prices
• experimenting with and analysing cloud management actions such as VM suspensions and live migrations to explore how they reflect on the server's performance and energy impact
• hacking on the OpenStack scheduler and contributing that code back to 1000s of servers in NASA, Rackspace, Canonical, Red Hat, HP and other companies
• <insert your idea>

Everybody who is interested in doing research in one of these directions is welcome to contact me.

As support to all the topics, in addition to mentorship, our team offers guidance and access to our private cluster that has OpenStack installed (relying on KVM for virtualisation), various benchmark applications (e.g. parallel physical simulations using MPI, as we're doing now), knowledge and programs for accessing various machine, VM and program metrics, powerful network-accessible equipment for measuring energy consumption as well as already collected datasets to start with more high-level data analysis.

Research

Research interests

• Large-scale distributed computing (parallel, cloud and P2P computing)
• Artificial intelligence (pattern recognition, machine learning)
• Modern GUIs (visual programming, advanced human-computer interaction)
• Open source (the “bazaar” development process, Ubuntu GNU/Linux)

Research projects

• HALEY - Holistic Energy Efficient Approach for the Management of Hybrid Clouds, Vienna University of Technology research award, 2011
• FOC-II - Forecasting Financial Crises, FP7, 2011
• AMASL - Ambient Assisted Shared Living, University of Vienna, 2010

Publications

• Toni Mastelić, Dražen Lučanin, Andreas Ipp, Ivona Brandić.  Methodology for trade-off analysis when moving scientific  applications to the Cloud. CloudCom 2012, 4^th IEEE International  Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, 3-6 December,  2012, Tapei, Taiwan. To appear.
• Dragan Gamberer, Dražen Lučanin, Tomislav Šmuc. Descriptive  modeling of systemic banking crises. The 15^th International  Conference on Discovery Science (DS 2012), 29-31 October, 2012, Lyon,  France. (CROSBI,  preprint)
• Matija Gulić, Dražen Lučanin, Nina Skorin-Kapov. A Two-Phase Vehicle based Decomposition Algorithm for Large-Scale Capacitated Vehicle Routing with Time Windows. Proceedings of the 35^th International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics - MIPRO, 21-25 May, 2012, Opatija, Croatia. (IEEE Xplore)
• Dražen Lučanin, Michael Maurer, Toni Mastelić, Ivona Brandić. Energy Efficient Service Delivery in Clouds in Compliance with the Kyoto Protocol. 1^st International Workshop on Energy-Efficient Data Centers, 8^th May, 2012, Madrid, Spain. (SpringerLink, ArXiv)
• Dražen Lučanin. Visual definition of procedures for automatic virtual scene generation. Master’s thesis no. 340. Faculty of electrical engineering and computing, June, 2011, University of Zagreb, Croatia. (ArXiv)
• Dražen Lučanin, Ivan Fabek, Domagoj Jakobović.  A visual programming language for drawing and executing flowcharts.  Proceedings of the 34^th International Convention on Information  and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics – MIPRO.  23-27 May, 2011, Opatija, Croatia. Best student paper award.  (IEEE Xplore,  ArXiv)
• Matija Gulić, Dražen Lučanin, Ante Šimić, Šandor Dembitz. A digit and spelling speech recognition system for the Croatian language. Proceedings of the 34^th International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics – MIPRO. 23-27 May, 2011, Opatija, Croatia. (IEEE Xplore)

Activities

Research visits

• 2^nd COST IC804 Training School on Energy Efficiency in Large Scale Distributed Systems, University of Balearic Islands (UIB), Palma de Mallorca, Spain; 24-27 April, 2012.

Scientific talks

• Energy Efficient Service Delivery in Clouds in Compliance with the Kyoto Protocol. 1^st International Workshop on Energy-Efficient Data Centers, Madrid, Spain, 8^th May, 2012.
• Kyoto Protocol Compliant Management of Data Centers. COST 804 focus group “Energy and QoS-aware Workload Manangent in Clouds” meeting, INRIA Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique, France; 27^th March, 2012.

Program comitee member

• CloudComp 2012, 3^rd International Conference on Cloud Computing, Vienna, Austria; September 24–26, 2012.