Dr. Stefan Poledna is a member of the executive board and co-founder TTTech Computertechnik AG, and CTO at TTTech Auto. He is responsible for the technology roadmap, all scientific topics and quality management in both companies.

Dr. Stefan Poledna has over 30 years of international industry experience in innovative embedded systems development and has authored and co-authored several patents with a focus on safety, communication and automated driving. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in computer science with distinction from Vienna University of Technology, where he also lectures on Dependable Computer Systems.

Dejan B. Popović was born in 1950 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia).
He is the member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA), Belgrade, Serbia since 2015 (associate member from 2009 to 2015).
He is the Corresponding (foreign) member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia since 2019.
He is the member of the Academy of Engineering Sciences (AINS), Belgrade, Serbia since 2004.
He is Professor Emeritus at Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.

Education:
He earned Dipl. Eng. (five-year program) in Electrical Engineering in 1974, Ms.Sci. in Solid State Physics in 1977, and Ph.D. in Technical Sciences Engineering in 1981 (all from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia). He received a distinguished Dr. Tec. degree from the Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark in 2003.

¹He was teaching many courses at BS, Ms.Sci. and Ph.D. level in Belgrade and abroad. He developed curricula for several courses in the domain of biomedical engineering and the Laboratory for Biomedical engineering and technologies (http://bmit.etf.rs) as well as the Laboratory for Rehabilitation engineering at Aalborg University (SMI). He authored 11 textbooks. He supervised and supervises in total 28 Ph.D. students, more than 50 Ms.Sci. students and more than 150 BS and MS students.

Research and development results:
He published about 500 papers (3 books, 130 journal publications (> 90 in journals on the WoS), 34 book chapters, 9 textbooks, and many conference papers). He submitted eight patent applications. The Google Scholar database shows 7700 citations, and h=48. The SCOPUS database shows about 3100 citations and the Hirsh factor h=35 based on 182 references.

His research led to 8 patent applications and the innovations were translated to clinical research or daily use (Self-Fitting Modular Orthosis, 1978; Powered transfemoral prosthesis, 1980; Hybrid-System for Assisting Locomotion in Paraplegic Patients, 1984; Automatic Control of Walking, 1999; Belgrade Grasping System for tetraplegic patients, 1998; Functional Electrical Therapy for hemiplegic patients, 2001; Walkaround - device for postural assistance, 2008; Multichannel electrical stimulation system, 2011; Array electrodes, 2012; System for assessing grasping force, 2015). The aim of the scientific work was to develop instruments and methods to the technological readiness level which can be translated to the industry.

He was project leader or participant on several NIH, NSF, NIDRR, NSERC projects. He was the project leader r participant in several FP6, FP7 EU projects. He was leading several TEMPUS projects related to the development of new curricula for mater students. He led several government funded project in Denmark and Serbia. He participated in the development of several startups in Denmark and Serbia. The overall funding that hi received is over 16 million USD.

The main results of the research are instruments and assistive devices that are used for the rehabilitation of persons with motor disability, but also for electrophysiological measurements and instruments for nuclear medicine. The main outcome of the rich and dedicated educational and research activities are more than 50 excellent researchers working in the field of biomedical engineering in Serbia and abroad.

He is the Associate editor of IEEE Trans on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering; Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing and member of the review boards of Medical Engineering and Physics and J Neuromodulation. He is the Editor of Journal of Automatic Control, University of Belgrade, since 1989. He is the reviewer of many journals (IEEE Trans on Biomed Eng, IEEE Trans on Rob and Autom, IEEE Trans on Rehabil Eng, Ann of Biomed Eng, Intern. J of Robotics, Intern J Kinesiology and Electromyog, IEEE Spectrum, Spinal Cord, etc.).

He was the Chair or member of the scientific committees at more than 80 international and national meetings.

Memberships: Founding member of the International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society (IFESS); Fellow and Founding member of the European Alliance for Medical and Biological Engineering (EAMBES), President of the Serbian Society for Electronics, Telecommunications, Computing, Automatics and Nuclear Engineering (ETRAN), IEEE - Institute for Electronic and Electric Engineers; EMBS - Biomedical Engineering Society.

Predrag Pejović was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1966. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Belgrade, in 1990 and 1992, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1995. In 1995, he rejoined the University of Belgrade, where he is presently Professor in charge of teaching undergraduate courses Electrical Measurements, Software Tools in Electronics, Analog Electronics, Power Electronics, M.S. level course Power Electronics 2, and Ph.D. level courses Selected Topics in Power Electronics and Control of Power Converters. His research interests are in circuit design, power converters, three-phase high power factor rectifiers, dynamics of nonlinear systems, electronic measurements, automated measurement systems, wireless positioning, and techniques for computer-aided analysis, design, and optimization of power electronic systems.