Biography

EDUCATION

1970 Electronic Engineering B.S. degree. (Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Niš, Yugoslavia)

1974 Electronic Engineering M.S. degree. (Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Niš, Yugoslavia) “New methods of synthesis of selective filters with monotone passband characteristic”

1977 Electronic Engineering Ph. D. degree. (Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Niš, Yugoslavia) “Selective filters with monotone passband amplitude characteristic and constant group delay

Main research areas: Telecommunication filter design, IC physical design and testing, ASIC Design, Design Automation, Circuit Analysis, Electronic Circuits Simulation and Optimization, Symbolic Circuit Analysis, Artificial Neural Networks, Sustainable electronic design, Power electronics modeling and simulation.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE (Heading of the following projects - domestic)

2009-2012Advanced technologies for measurement, control, and communication on the electric grid - TR 32004

2007-2008System on Chip design”, funded by TEMPUS

2004-2007 “A system for power factor cmeasurement and correction of electronic equipment”, funded by the  Ministry of Science of Serbia.

2002-2004 “Design testing and eco-design of electronic circuits and systems ” funded by the  Ministry of Science of Serbia.

2001-2004 “Software development for design automation of Application specific CMOS integrated circuits“, funded by Yugoslav Faderal Ministry of Science.

1996-2000 “Integrated Circuit Design Automation”. funded by the  Ministry of Science of Serbia

1994-1996 “Complex Microelectronic Devices Design”. funded by the  Ministry of Science of Serbia

1991-1995 “Development of System for IC Design and Verification” funded by the  Ministry of Science of Serbia.

1986-1990 “Semiconductor Microelectronics and Optoelectronics” funded by the  Ministry of Science of Serbia

1981-1985 “Microelectronics Devices” funded by the  Ministry of Science of Serbia

INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS EXPERIENCE

2015-...The SYNAPS project (Resercher with ..), University of Bath, UK, Funded by the EPSRC.

2007-2008"System on Chip design” (Head of the Serbian team), funded by TEMPUS JEP-41107-2006

2001-2007 ISSN, (Head of the Serbian team) An international research project realized within the Pact of Stability of Southeast Europe and funded by The German Government (DAAD).

2005-2007 “Electronic education in Serbia”, (Head of the Serbian team) TEMPUS Tempus CD_JEP.17028.2002.

2005-2007 “Course Development Program +”, (Head of the project) which is being implemented by WUS Austria within its program “Support to Higher Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2005/ 2007” (No: 7967-00/2005)

2005-2009"South Eastern European GRid-enabled eInfrastructure Development 2 – SEE-GRID-2" (Head of the Serbian team), FP6 Research Infrastructures contract Nr. 031775

2000-2002 Researcher on a set of projects with Middlesex University, London (“Low bit High Speed BOSA DSM”, “Evaluation and Design of a High Frequency Low Pass Oversampling DAC” and “Band Pass Oversampling AD Converter”.)

1999-2000 Research project realized with the University of Southampton funded by the British EPSRC (Grant no. GR/M85531, 02 July 1999).

1995-1995 A research project realized with the University of Southampton funded by the British EPSRC (Grant ref. No. GR/K54129, 12 June 2005).

1989-1991 A research project realized with the University of Southampton funded by the British Council (Alis No. 245, Belgrade).

INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE

2010-2012 President of the Board of the "Cluster of Advanced Tecnologies", Niš

1996-1999 R&D consultancy to the general Manager of the Ei corporation, Niš.

UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE

2012-...Independent researcher

1999-2009Visiting professor (Honoris causa) at the Department of Electronics and computer science of the University of Southampton, England.

1988-2004 Head of the Chiar of Electronics at the Faculty of Electronic engineering Univerisity of Niš.

1987-2012 Full Professor at the Electronics Department of the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš, Serbia Montenegro and University of Sarajevo (courses at graduate studies: Basic Electronics, CAD of electronic circuits, Testing of electronic circuits, Neural Networks, and courses at post-graduate studies: CAD of electronic circuits, Sustainable electronic design).

1982-1987 Associated Professor at the Electronics Department of the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Nis, Yugoslavia and universities of Sarajevo, Banja Luka and Prishtina (courses at graduate studies: Basic Electronics, CAD of electronic circuits, and courses at post-graduate studies: CAD of electronic circuits).

1977-1982 Assistant Professor at the Electronics Department of the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Nis, Yugoslavia (courses at graduate studies: Basic Electronics, CAD of electronic circuits  and courses at post-graduate studies: CAD of electronic circuits).

1970-1977 Teaching Assistant at the Electronics Department of the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, And the Faculty of the Professional safety, University of Nis, Yugoslavia (courses at graduate studies: Basic electronics, Mathematics).

PUBLICATIONS

• Chapters in monographies - 6
• Papers published in referred (Thomson Reuters SCI list) international journals – 49
• Papers published in referred international journals – 34
• Papers published in Proceedings of international conferences – 160
• Papers published in referred national journals - 32
• Papers published in Proceedings of national conferences – 158
• Published textbooks and laboratory guides - 25
• Reports and technical solutions - 42

The full list of all the published papers by Vančo Litovski you can get here, or, if you prefere manual selection and redefinable queries here from LEDA publications database

Below is an excerpt from: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Z5IhjdYAAAAJ&hl=en

LANGUAGES

• English: Read, Write and Speak
• Several other (such as: Greek, Macedonian, French, German) languages: able to read, understand, and (partially) to speak.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Founder and the first president of Yugoslav Simulation Society.
• Member of IEEE.
• Member of ETRAN
• Organizer of the Small Systems Simulation Symposium held at the University of Niš
• Founder and first editor of the journal "Facta Universitatis, Series: Electronics and Energetics" published by the University of Niš.
• Senior member of the “Serbian Academy of Engineering Sciences”, Belgrade
• Representative of Serbia at the PAB (Public Authority Board) of the Joint Undertaking ARTEMIS with the
  EC Commission
• Expert, by appointment No. AL00065673, of the EC (Information Society and Media / Embedded Systems
  and Control)
• Reviewer and a member of editorial boards for several renown Int. Conferences and Journals.

AWARDS

• The "ETRAN Award" for 1986 (by the ETRAN association )
• The "Tesla Award" for 1994 (by the independent Tesla foundation)
• The "Savastano Award" for 1998 (by The European Federation of Simulation Societies)
• The "Life Achivement" Award for 2015 (by the Regional Chamber of Commerce, Niš) .