Zoran Gacovski

Dr. Zoran Gacovski is an associate professor at FON – University, Skopje, Macedonia. His teaching subjects include Intelligent systems and Visual programming techniques, and his areas of research are: fuzzy systems, intelligent control, mobile robots, graphical models (Petri, Neural and Bayesian networks), machine learning, and human-computer interaction. He has earned his Ph.D. degree at Faculty of Electrical engineering, Skopje. In his career he was awarded the Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship (2002) for research stay at Rutgers University, USA. He has also earned best-paper award at the Baltic Olympiad for Automation control (2002), US NSF grant for conducting a specific research in the field of human-computer interaction at Rutgers University, USA (2003), and DAAD grant for research stay at University of Bremen, Germany (2008). He took an active participation in the following projects: “A multimodal human-computer interaction and modelling of the user behaviour” (for Rutgers University, 2002-2003); „Development and implementation of algorithms for guidance, navigation and control of mobile objects“ (for Military Academy – Skopje, 1999-2002); “Analytical and non-analytical intelligent systems for deciding and control of uncertain complex processes“ (for Macedonian Ministry of Science, 1995-1998). He is the author of 3 books, 7 journal papers, over 30 Conference papers, and was also a reviewer for IEEE journals and conferences.