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

• 2002 - 2006
  5th Gymnasium (focus: mathematics)³
  Zagreb
• 1994 - 2002
  Primary School
  Zagreb

Education abroad

Two times participant of the Erasmus student exchange program:

• 2011
  One semester at the University of Vienna during MS
  Master’s thesis + courses
• 2009
  One semester at the University of Vienna during BS
  Bachelor’s thesis + courses
• Note: Passed several courses (15 ECTS points in 2009 and 6 ECTS points in 2011) in parallel in the field of computer science at the Vienna University of Technology.

Participated in a distributed course - a programming project (Visual Architecture, see section ) in a multicultural team of people from Africa, Asia and Europe. Was officially enrolled at Mälardalen University, Sweden.

• Distributed Software Development
  University of Zagreb, Croatia and Mälardalen University, Sweden

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 on the AMASL project (see section )
  Department of Distributed and Multimedia Systems
  University of Vienna, Vienna
  

• June - July 2008
  Part-time worker for the digitalization of a cadastral raster map in AutoCAD
  CADCOM d.o.o.

Voluntary work

• 23 - 30 July 2012
  School organiser
  Višnjan Summer School of Science
• 18 - 25 July 2011
  Automatic speech recognition project leader
  Višnjan Summer School of Science
• 30^th July - 6^th August 2010
  Machine Learning Algorithms for Face Recognition project leader
  Višnjan Summer School of Science
• 17 - 25 July 2010
  Porto Rico team guide
  41st International Physics Olympiad in Zagreb
• 2007 - 2008
  Member of the Photography Section of KSET, FER student club

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.

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 (see section ) 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.

Skills

Foreign Languages

• English, fluent in speech and writing.
  2005 - Passed the Cambridge Level 1 Certificate in English (ESOL) with grade A.
  Studied it from early childhood. Worked and communicated in it with many foreigners.
  Certified level: B2. Self-assessment: C1 or higher.
• German
  Lived in Austria for 1 year.
  Certified level: B1
• Italian
  Certified level: A2

Professional skills

• Distributed development
  Developer in two internationally distributed software development projects - AMASL (see section ) & Visual Architecture (see section ).
• Programming languages
  Most at home in: Python
  Did projects in: Java, C#, C, C++, Objective-C, LATEX.
  Some knowledge of: PHP, Pascal, Vala, Javascript, HTML.
• Operating Systems
  Proficient user of Linux, Windows & OS X.
  Done programming and other advanced tasks in all three.
• Specialized software
  Basic usage of Matlab, Mathematica, Adobe Flash and Photoshop, AutoCAD.
• Version control systems
  Bazaar, GIT, SVN.
• IDEs
  Eclipse (PyDev, JDT, CDT, TeXlipse), Visual Studio, Xcode, Qt Creator, modest Emacs.
• System administration
  Experience in Linux server management, OpenStack deployment and usage, MySQL, PHP, Wordpress.

Other skills & hobbies

• Guitar playing
  Finished two grades of classical music school, a private course and the Rock Academy.
  Played in several demo rock bands.
• Photography
  Finished two optional courses at the University of Zagreb and was a member of the Photography Section of KSET (see section ). Experience in both analog and digital photography.
• Drawing & animation
  Author of the Epic Adventure web comic (see section ). Also interested in animation (done several amateur animations in Adobe Flash and in stop motion).
• Sports
  Trained many sports through life (tennis, fencing, rowing, sailing, skiing, kung-fu…) Always active. Currently recreationally doing cycling, swimming, hiking & skiing.
• Literature
  Fan of classical literature, fantasy & SF.

Programming projects

• Philharmonic
  An OpenStack scheduler written in Python  that pauses virtual machines when electricity prices  are predicted to be high in real-time pricing systems. Results pending review in a scientific paper.
• FOC
  A Python data extractor (part of a larger framework for forecasting  financial crises) that fetches data from the  World Bank’s API and  C. Hidalgo’s RCA indicators,  couples it with the  IMF’s crisis database  and formats it in machine-learning-friendly formats (for  Rapidminer or  subgroup discovery). Caching to MongoDB.  A Django web application built by M. Piškorec  on top of the extractor is available at lis.irb.hr/foc to  illustrate its functionality. Results published in a scientific paper  (see section ).
• libprocedural
  A Python/C++ library for procedural scene generation in the Ogre 3D graphical engine. The library can be used through vIDE (see bellow). Basis for a master’s thesis (see section ).
• vIDE
  A visual programming language environment built as an Eclipse IDE extension. Basis for a scientific paper (see section ).
• Croatian Digit and Spelling Speech Recogniser
  A speech recognition system utilizing the CMU Pocketsphynx toolkit trained on a database of spelling and digit utterances in Croatian. Basis for a scientific paper (see section ).
• RoboDJ
  A voting-architecture system for dynamically defining the playlist of a media player. Awarded best student program of 2010 at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing.
• AMASL Videochat
  A professional multimedia communication system for elderly people, created in a distributed environment with programmers from Austria, Netherlands and Croatia for the acclaimed AMASL project (see section ). Development of the video-conferencing module.
• Epic Adventure
  A fantasy web comic
  Content author, web page developer and designer
• Visual Architecture
  An Eclipse IDE extension for visually editing computer architecture diagrams and a coding & debugging for an assembly language where execution can be monitored through highlighting of certain elements on the diagram. Developed as part of the Distributed Software Development course (see section ). Project leader.
• Face Recogniser
  A face recognition program using PCA, Haar’s feature extraction & SVM classification. Done as part of the Pattern Recognition course (maximum points received). Was a mentor during a similar project at the Višnjan Summer School of Science (see section ).
• Music Genre Recogniser
  A music genre recognition program using MFCC feature extraction & SVM classification. Done as part of the Machine Learning course (maximum points received).
• C-like Programming Language Compiler
  A compiler for a language similar to C. Done as part of the Compiler Design course. Project got the most points per team-member in class. Team leader.