Autor: Mirsad Hadzikadic

Mirsad Hadzikadic is a Professor in the Department of Software and Information Systems at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has over thirty years of information technology experience combining business and academic environments.  He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Southern Methodist University where he was a Fulbright Scholar. Mirsad served as the Founding Dean of the College of Computing and Informatics.  He is currently serving as the Director of the Complex Systems Institute at UNC Charlotte and the Executive Director of Data Science Initiative.  His research interests include machine learning complexity theory, and a systems’ view of policies in financial services, economics, defense, healthcare, and political science. Samir AVDAKOVIC was born in 1974 in Doboj, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Tuzla in 2006 and 2012, respectively. Currently, he is working in the Department for Strategic Development in EPC Elektroprivreda B&H and Faculty of electrical engineering – Department of Power Engineering – University of Sarajevo. Since October 2014, he has been an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo, where he currently teaches courses in fundamentals of Power System Operations and Control, Power System Planning and Demand Side Management. His research interests are: power system analysis, power system dynamics and stability, WAMPCS, smart systems, signal processing, biomedical engineering. Dr Samir Avdaković, dipl.ing.el. Senior Expert Associate for Development of Distribution Network – PE Elektroprivreda of B&H (Vilsonovo šetalište 15, 71000 Sarajevo); Assistant Professor Dr – Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo (Zmaja od Bosne bb, Kampus Univerziteta, 71000 Sarajevo); Executive Director – Development, Promotions and Advanced Technologies Applications Society, BHAAAS – Associate Member; Cigre – Member.