Shkelzen Cakaj
Dr. Shkelzen Cakaj has received his BSc and MSc degrees from Prishtina University in Kosovo. Since 2003 is cooperating with Technical University in Vienna, where he has prepared his Master Thesis. He was awarded a PhD in area of satellite communications from Zagreb University, in January 2008. Later on, in 2009, as Fulbright scholar, he continued his post doctorate research at NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) at Maryland, USA. He is the author of 60 papers published in worldwide conferences and journals; mostly IEEE and also engaged as a reviewer. His area of interest is the satellite ground station performance. He is lecturing satellite systems at Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania. On 2016 he was awarded as Albanian ICT Researcher of the Year 2015.