Prof. Sonja Grgic, Ph.D. - CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal Information:

• place of birth: Vukovar, Croatia
• citizen of Croatia
• nationality: Croatian
• marital status: married
• children: daughter Dora

Education:

• 1972-1980; "Ivo Lola Ribar" Elementary School; Vukovar; Croatia
• 1980-1984; Gymnasium; Vukovar; Croatia
• 1984-1989; University of Zagreb; Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing; Zagreb; Croatia; (B.Sc.)
• 1989-1992; University of Zagreb; Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing; Zagreb; Croatia; (M.Sc.)
• 1993-1996; University of Zagreb; Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing; Zagreb; Croatia; (Ph.D.)

Degrees:

• February 1989; B.Sc. ("Diplomirani inzenjer elektrotehnike"); University of Zagreb
• January 1992; M.Sc. ("Magistar tehnickih znanosti"); University of Zagreb
• May 1996; Ph.D. ("Doktor tehnickih znanosti"); Universiry of Zagreb

Theses:

• B.Sc. thesis: "Characteristics of video cassette recorders for high definition television"
• M.Sc. thesis: "Architecture of cable distribution network for video signal transmission"
• Ph.D. thesis: "The effect of bit rate variation on the quality of television pictures"

Association Memberships:

• HATZ (Croatian Academy of Engineering) full member
• SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) member
• IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.) full-member
• ELMAR (Croatian Society Electronics in Marine) Presidency member
• AMAC-FER (Almae Matris Alumni Croaticae - FER) member
• KoREMA (Croatian Society for Communications, Computing, Electronics, Measurement and Control) member

International Program Committee Memberships:

• IWSSIP (International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing)
• VIPromCom (International Symposium on Video Processing and Multimedia Communications)
• ECMCS (EURASIP Conference on Digital Signal Processing for Multimedia Communications and Services)
• EC-VIP-MC (EURASIP Conference focused on Video/Image Processing and Multimedia Communications)
• ELMAR (International Symposium Electronics in Marine)
• ICECom (International Conference on Applied Electromagnetics and Communications)

Work Experience:

• 1989-1991; University of Zagreb; Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing; Zagreb; Croatia;
  Professional Assistant at Department of Radiocommunications and Microwave Engineering
• 1989-1992; Croatian Radio Television - Department for Transmission and Links; Zagreb; Croatia;
  Visiting Assistant in the field of cable distribution of television system
• 1991-1992; University of Zagreb; Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing; Zagreb; Croatia;
  Research Assistant at Department of Radiocommunications and Microwave Engineering
• 1992-1996; University of Zagreb; Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing; Zagreb; Croatia;
  Assistant at Department of Radiocommunications and Microwave Engineering
• 1996-1997; University of Zagreb; Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing; Zagreb; Croatia;
  Senior Assistant at Department of Radiocommunications and Microwave Engineering
• 1997-2002; University of Zagreb; Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing; Zagreb; Croatia;
  Assistant Professor at Department of Radiocommunications and Microwave Engineering
• 2002-2007; University of Zagreb; Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing; Zagreb; Croatia;
  Associate Professor at Department of Wireless Communications
• 2007-2012; University of Zagreb; Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing; Zagreb; Croatia;
  Full Professor at Department of Wireless Communications
• 2012-____; University of Zagreb; Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing; Zagreb; Croatia;
  Tenured Professor at Department of Communication and Space Technologies

Courses on the bachelor study program (FER-1):

• Television
• Noise Analysis in Communication Systems
• Digital Television

Courses on the bachelor study program (FER-2):

• Eletronic communications
• Multimedia Technologies

Courses on the master study program (FER-2):

• Video Communication Technologies
• Digital Broadcasting Systems
• Laboratory of wireless technologies 1
• Laboratory of information processing 1

Predmeti na preddiplomskom studiju (nastavni program FER3):

• Communication Systems
• Multimedia Systems

Predmeti na diplomskom studiju (nastavni program FER3):

• Video Communication Technologies
• Measurements in Communication Systems
• Communication Systems Practicum

Courses on the PhD study program:

• Picture Quality in Digital Video Communications
• Brodaband Networks for Television Signal Distribution (until 2022/2023)
• Communications for Multimedia Services

Scientific Projects:

• 1991-1996; University of Zagreb; Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing; Zagreb; Croatia; Collaborator on the project 2-07-277: "Research of Advanced Technologies for Croatian Broadcasting Systems", Ministry of Science and Technology, Republic of Croatia
• 1992-1996; Co-operation in Science and Technology with the European Commission: Project COST-242: "Methods for the Performance Evaluation and Design of Multiservice Brodaband Networks"
• 1996-2000; Co-operation in Science and Technology with the European Commission: Project COST-257: "Impacts on New Services on the Architecture and Performance of Broadband Networks"
• 1997-2002; University of Zagreb; Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing; Zagreb; Croatia; Collaborator on the project 036015: "Multimedia Communications Technologies", Ministry of Science and Technology, Republic of Croatia
• 2000-2002; University of Zagreb; Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing; Zagreb; Croatia; Collaborator on the project 036041: "Research and Development of Cable TV Services in Croatia", Ministry of Science and Technology, Republic of Croatia
• 2002-2006; University of Zagreb; Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing; Zagreb; Croatia; Collaborator on the project 0036015: "Multimedia Communication Systems", Ministry of Science and Technology, Republic of Croatia
• 2007-2013; University of Zagreb; Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing; Zagreb; Croatia; Project Leader on the project 036-0361630-1635: "Picture Quality Management in Digital Video Broadcasting", Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, Republic of Croatia
• 2007-2013; University of Zagreb; Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing; Zagreb; Croatia; Collaborator on the project 036-0982560-1643: "Intelligent Image Features Extraction in Knowledge Discovery Systems", Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, Republic of Croatia
• 2012-2016; Collaborator on project ICT COST Action IC1105; 3D content creation, coding and transmission over future media networks (3D-ConTourNet)
• 2018-2022; Researcher on project "DATACROSS - Advanced methods and technologies in Data Science and Cooperative Systems", ERDF funded project
• 2018-2021; Researcher on project "Satellite-based measurement of electromagnetic radiation- CROSPERITY", Croatian Science Foundation project
• 2020-2024; Researcher on project "Smart platform for millimeter-wave environmental and industrial sensing - MMSENSE", Croatian Science Foundation project
• 2023-2027; Researcher on project "Integrated Body-Centric Communication and Sensor Systems - BODYSEN", Croatian Science Foundation project

Research Interests:

• image and video compression
• deep learning in image and video processing and analysis
• digital image processing in the automotive industry
• methods and measures for subjective and objective evaluation of image quality
• multimedia systems and networks
• acquisition, compression, coding and transmission of 3D video content
• IPTV, Internet video, video on demand
• video signals transmission in mobile communication systems
• digital broadcasting systems

Honours & Awards:

• "Josip Loncar" silver medal of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb for the outstanding Ph.D. thesis work, 1996
• Award of the Croatian Society Electronics in Marine - ELMAR, 1998
• Certificate of Appreciation of the Croatian Society Electronics in Marine - ELMAR for notable services and contributions, 2003
• Award of the Croatian Society Electronics in Marine - ELMAR for notable services and contributions to the ELMAR Society, 2008
• Annual Award "Rikard Podhorsky" of the Croatian Academy of Engineering (HATZ) for the outstanding scientific achievement during last three years with the application in industry, 2007
• Award for Exceptional Contribution to Engineering Education for 2022 from the Croatian IEEE Section, 2022

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