Petar Jovanovic
Research Interests: Big Data management, Management and optimization od data-intensive flows, Data warehousing, ETL, Distributed data management and processing
ABOUT ME
I obtained my PhD from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in 2016. Currently, I am a tenure-track lecturer and a member of the INSSIDE research group at UPC. My research areas are Big Data Management, with special focus on data flow processing and optimization. I published articles in top tier peer reviewed international journals (such as TKDE, Information Systems, Fundamenta Informaticae), and conferences (such as ICDE, SIGMOD, EDBT, ADBIS, ER). I currently serve as committee member of several international conferences and journals. I've also participated in reserach projects with organisations such as WHO, HP Labs Palo Alto and in several H2020/Horizon Europe projects. I coordinate and teach various BSc and MSc courses on databases and big data management.
EDUCATION
- PhD in Computer Science (2011 - 2016), IT4BI-DC. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Université libre de Bruxelles
Thesis title: "Requirement-Driven Design and Optimization of Data-Intensive Flows" - MSc (2010 - 2011), Master in Computing, Barcelona School of Informacs (FIB), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Thesis title: “Integration of Multidimensional and ETL design” - BSc (2006 - 2010), Software Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Thesis title: “Applying Data Warehouse and OLAP technologies on student records, inside of the Faculty Information System”
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
- Postdoctoral researcher, DTIM, UPC
September 2016 - September 2021 - Visiting researcher, CODE, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bussels, Belgium.
September 2014 - December 2014; August 2015 - November 2015 - Research Intern, HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA.
July 2012 - September 2012; March 2013 - June 2013 - Doctoral candidate, DTIM, UPC
October 2011 - September 2016
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- Data Warehousing (2013/14 – present),
- Databases (2020/21, 2021/22),
- Data Management for Transportation (2021/22 - present),
- Big Data Management and Analytics (2015/16 – present),
- Introduction to Databases (2022/23),
- Semantic Data Management (2018/19 - 2020/21),
- Concepts for Specialised Databases (2015/16).
RECOGNITIONS AND AWARDS
- Research accreditation / Acreditació de recerca (Professorat Agregat) by the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency – AQU (2020)
- Profesor contratado doctor acreditation by the Spanish National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation – ANECA (2020)
- Profesor ayudante doctor acreditation by Spanish National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation – ANECA (2020)
- Extraordinary PhD Thesis award by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). For PhD thesis in the field of Information and communications technology engineering (2018)
- Tenure-track lecturer accreditation (Professorat Lector) by the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency – AQU (2018)
- Research award by Spanish Computer Science Society (SCIE) and BBVA Foundation. For research contributions in Big Data Management and its application to the fight against Neglected Tropical Diseases at WHO (2017)
CONTACT
UPC-Campus Nord, Omega Building, room 108.
c/Jordi Girona 1-3, 08034 Barcelona (Spain).
petar.jovanovic@upc.edu
Phone: +34 93 4137714