Dražen Lučanin

Education

• 2011 - present
  Computer Science PhD,
  Vienna University of Technology
• 2009 - 2011
  Computer Science MS¹,
  Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing,
  University of Zagreb
• 2006 - 2009
  Computer Science BS²,
  Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing,
  University of Zagreb

Employment

• October 2011 - present
  Research assistant
  Distributed Systems Group, Institute of Information Systems
  Vienna University of Technology, Vienna
  
• November 2011 - September 2012
  External associate
  Department of Electronics
  Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb
  
• July 2009 - October 2010
  Developer
  Department of Distributed and Multimedia Systems
  University of Vienna, Vienna
  

Research

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.

Honours, awards & fellowships

• Google student grant for attending the EuroPython professional conference, 2012.
• Best Student Paper award – A visual programming language for drawing and executing flowcharts. MIPRO 2011. (see section )
• Best Student Computer Program award – RoboDJ , Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, 2010.
• Two times Croatian Ministry of Education student fellowship, 2006 - 2009 and 2009-2011.
• Two times Erasmus fellowship for student exchange, 2009 and 2011.