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Melbourne, Australia
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V LADIMIR C EPERIC , P H D, MBA
R E SE A R C H S C I E N T I S T  A SS I ST A NT P R O FE SSO R  P R O J E C T M AN AG E R
PhD/MBA  Teaching/Training/Mentorship
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Research scientist with a proven history of delivering comprehensive knowledge and expertise in diverse platforms
spanning multiple fronts in both research and professional ICT environments.
Key knowledge and strengths lie in Machine Learning, Microelectronics, Data Modelling, Electronic Circuit and
System Design, Short-Term Load Forecasting, Energy Price Modelling, Time Series Modelling resulting in over 30
publications.
High academic achievements include a double degree PhD in Electrical Engineering and Engineering, and an MBA.
Recognized as a trusted advisor who excels in environments that expect a high level of knowledge, dedication and
project management.
o Contributed to many international projects that gathered renowned corporations (Robert Bosch, British
Telecom, Ericsson, ON Semiconductors, Triquint Semiconductors, Infineon Technologies, Cadence Design
Systems and other) and renowned universities.
o Currently serving as a reviewer for several renowned scientific journals: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
and Learning Systems (IF=4.4), Information Sciences (IF=3.9), IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (IF=3.5), IASC
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.
Machine Learning
Data Modelling & Analysis/Simulations
Research & Professional Environments
Microelectronics/IC Design
RF Lab Measurements
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C O R E C O M P E T E NC I E S
Short-Term Load Forecasting
Electronic Circuit and System Design
Research Papers/Presentations
Automotive Applications/EMC
Modelling of SMT Components
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Teaching/Training
Modelling of SMD&PCB
Patents/Publications
EMC-Aware Design
EM Simulations
AWARDS
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Go8 European Fellowship, Australia - 2015
Josip Loncar award for “outstanding doctoral dissertation and particularly successful scientific research” - 2013
NumeriX E-Quant grant winner, Lucca, Italy - 2014
FET EYE Scientific incubator finalist, Metz, France – 2014
Awarded the NZZ Ph.D. fellowship – 2009
E D U C AT I O N
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Flanders, Belgium/University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia: 2013
Double Degree Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Engineering
Thesis:
"Black-box Modelling of Analogue and Mixed-signal Circuits in the Time Domain" - Abstract available
at https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/402541.
Supervisors: Prof. dr. ir. Georges Gielen (MICAS-ESAT, KU Leuven, h-index > 30) and Prof. dr. sc. Adrijan Baric (FER,
University of Zagreb).
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics and Business, Zagreb, Croatia: 2009
Master of Business Administration in Economics
Thesis:
"Forecasting Daily Spot Foreign Exchange Rates Using Support Vector Machines": 2009
University of Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, UK: 2010
MBA Top Up in Economics
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER), Zagreb, Croatia: 2007
Master of Science in Microelectronics
GPA: 5.0/5.0
Thesis:
"Analysis of Conducted Electromagnetic Emissions in Integrated Circuits"
P R O FE S SI O N AL E X P E R I E N C E
Monash University  Melbourne, Australia  Apr. 2015 - Present
Visiting Researcher - Electrical & Computer Systems Engineering
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Research Topic:
o Design of low-power analog integrated circuits for Machine Learning.
Work performed via Go8 European Fellowship, Australia, 2015. The Group of Eight (Go8) is a coalition of bestranked, research-intensive Australian universities.
University of Zagreb  Zagreb, Croatia  Mar. 2015 - Present
Assistant Professor - Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing
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Research Topics:
o Machine Learning
o Black-box modelling of electronic circuits and systems
o Design of learning chips and silicon neurons
o Time series modelling and prediction
o Short-term load forecasting (STLF)
o Foreign exchange (FX) rate modelling
o Object recognition for electronic components
o Biomedical signal analysis and modelling
Serve as Technical Director for a large, national research project overseeing all technical innovations in this high-tech
research endeavour. (http://www.fer.unizg.hr/intrfid)
University of Zagreb  Zagreb, Croatia  2013 - 2015
Research Associate - Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing
Demonstrated quality interpersonal and communication skills while educating and mentoring students on topics
related to electronics and integrated circuit design technologies.
o Published a paper with an undergraduate student in prestigious journal (Neurocomputing).
Recognized in competition for my diligent efforts:
o NumeriX E-Quant grant, Lucca, Italy, 2014,
o FET EYE Scientific incubator finalist, Metz, France, 2014.
Vrije Universiteit  Brussels, Belgium  2013
Visiting Researcher - Department ELEC
Extended the Best Linear Approximation (BLA) with machine learning based methods, i.e. covering highly-nonlinear
cases while keeping the robustness of BLA.
University of Zagreb  Zagreb, Croatia  2007 - 2013
Research & Teaching Assistant - Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing
Played an active research role in several research studies, working closely with representatives from worldrenowned companies including BOSCH, ON Semiconductors, Infineon Technologies and Cadence Design Systems.
Provided R&D for a new model and tool development in the field of electromagnetic compatibility of automotive
electronics in partnership with ON Semiconductors and KU Leuven.
Contributed heavily to MEDEA+ project Parachute – EMC2: "Parasitic extraction and optimization for efficient
microelectronic system design and application". (Project description available at http://bit.ly/13m2aIs)
Delivered technical expertise to a Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports supported project: "Signal
Integrity of Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits", (No. 036-0361621-1622).
Served as Organizing Committee member of the EMC COMPO 2011 conference. (http://www.emccompo2011.org)
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KU Leuven  Flanders, Belgium  2009 - 2010
Visiting Researcher - Department MICAS
Provided valuable input as part of the IWT CATRENE project GoldenGates: "Improvement of Electromagnetic
Reliability System Performance by applying Electromagnetic Synergy".
Ericsson NT  Zagreb, Croatia  2006 - 2007
Software Engineer
Top-performing engineer with four awarded bonuses for exceptional work providing software development and
engineering expertise, ensuring quality of software, building credibility and maintaining communications with crossfunctional groups.
Located inefficiencies in code and provided immediate solutions that enabled the quality software development
process to move forward.
Developed design and code for a British Telecom project (21CN, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT_21CN) to support
SIP protocol, RP design and various encryption technologies.
o Interesting patenting consequence: http://bit.ly/13HlrXk
University of Zagreb  Zagreb, Croatia  2004 - 2006
Researcher - Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing
Developed EMC-related technology for the 4M Euro International FP6 European Commission project for use in the
Automotive industry; provided tools to design smart power devices and circuits that enabled designers to include
Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) simulations in the design flow. (http://www-g.eng.cam.ac.uk/robuspic)
Contributed to cutting-edge EMC models that supported high-profile partners including AMI Semiconductors,
BOSCH, Cadence, CamSemi, EPFL, IMEC, University of Cambridge and many more.
AMI Semiconductors  Oudenaarde, Belgium  2005
Visiting Researcher
Worked on AMIS Back Annotation tools and their usage for EMC simulations within the frame of the EU FP6
ROBUSPIC research program.
A D D I T I O N AL C R E D E NT I AL S
REVIEWER
Currently serving as a reviewer for several renowned scientific journals:
 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (IF=4.4),
 Information Sciences (IF=3.9),
 IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (IF=3.5),
 IASC Computational Statistics & Data Analysis,
 IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.
AFFILIATIONS
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
British Machine Vision Association & Society
European Professional Society on Computer Systems (EuroSys)
MENSA (IQ>156)
CONFERENCE ORG.
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2011 IEEE EMCCOMPO 2011/ Program Chair/ conference/ >110 participants
2005 IEEE ISIE 2005/ technical support/ conference/ >450 participants
2004 IEEE MELECON 2004/technical support/ conference/ >350 participants
2002 IEEE ICECS 2002/technical support/ conference/ >350 participants
LANGUAGES
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Fluent in English and Croatian (verbal and written)
P U B L I C AT I O NS
Journal Papers
1. V. Ceperic, G. Gielen, and A. Baric. “Sparse ε-tube Support Vector Regression by Active Learning”. In: Soft
Computing (2014), Springer Berlin Heidelberg. Volume 18, Issue 6, pp. 1113—1126. Corresponding author.
2. D. Vrtaric, V. Ceperic, and A. Baric. “Area-efficient differential Gaussian circuit for dedicated hardware
implementations of Gaussian function based machine learning algorithms”. In: Neurocomputing (2013). Volume
118, pp. 329-333. Corresponding author.
3. E. Ceperic, V. Ceperic, and A. Baric. “A strategy for short-term load forecasting by support vector regression
machines”. In: IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (2013), vol.28, no.4, pp. 4356—4364. Corresponding author.
4. V. Ceperic, G. Gielen, and A. Baric. “Recurrent sparse support vector regression machines trained by active
learning in the time-domain”. In: Expert Systems with Applications 39.12 (2012), pp. 10933—10942.
Corresponding author.
5. V. Ceperic, G. Gielen, and A. Baric. “Sparse multikernel support vector regression machines trained by active
learning”. In: Expert Systems with Applications 39.12 (2012), pp. 11029—11035. Corresponding author.
6. V. Ceperic, N. Bako, and A. Baric. “Symbolic Regression Based Modelling Strategy of AC/DC Rectifiers for RFID
Applications”. Submitted to: Expert Systems with Applications (2014), vol.41, pp. 7061—7067. Corresponding
author.
Submitted Journal Papers
1. K. Brkic, V. Ceperic, and Z. Kalafatic. “'Deep Belief Networks for Solder Defect Detection'”. To: Electronic Letters
(2015).
2. M. Magerl, V. Ceperic, and A. Baric. “Echo State Networks for Black-Box Modelling of Integrated Circuits”. To:
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (2015).
Patent Applications
1. V. Ceperic and A. Baric. “System, Method and Computer Program Product for Modeling Electronic Circuits”.
Patent application 13,353,701 (US). Jan. 2012.
Conference Papers
1. V. Ceperic, G. Gielen, and A. Baric. “Reducing Complexity of Echo State Networks with Sparse Linear Regression
Algorithms”. In: 16th International Conference on Computer Modeling and Simulation (UKSim). Mar. 2014.
2. V. Ceperic, G. Gielen, and A. Baric. “Black-Box Modeling of AC-DC Rectifiers for RFID Applications Using Support
Vector Regression Machines”. In: 15th International Conference on Computer Modeling and Simulation (UKSim).
Apr. 2013, pp. 815—820.
3. V. Ceperic, G. Gielen, and A. Baric. “Black-box modeling of conducted electromagnetic immunity by support
vector machines”. In: International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC EUROPE), 2012. Sept.
2012, pp. 1-6.
4. V. Ceperic, G. Gielen, and A. Baric. “Black-box modeling of conducted electromagnetic emissions by adjustable
complexity support vector regression machines”. In: Asia-Pacific Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility
(APEMC), 2012. May 2012, pp. 17—20.
5. V. Ceperic and A. Baric. “A brief overview of the black-box behavioral modeling of electronic circuits for
transient simulations”. In: Proceedings of the 35th International Convention MIPRO 2012. May 2012, pp. 72—
77.
6. V. Ceperic and A. Baric. “Modeling of Electromagnetic Immunity of Integrated Circuits by Artificial Neural
Networks”. In: 20th International Zurich Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, 200.9. Jan. 2009, pp.
373—376.
7. V. Ceperic and A. Baric. “Conducted electromagnetic emission current source modeling by artificial neural
networks”. In: 16th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer
Networks, SoftCOM 2008. Sept. 2008, pp. 55—59.
8. V. Ceperic, E. Ceperic, and A. Baric. “Behavioral Modeling of Circuits that Exhibit Chaotic Behavior”. In:
Proceedings of the 31th International Convention MIPRO 2008. Vol. 1. May 2008, pp. 167-171.
9. V. Ceperic, B. Pejcinovic, and A. Baric. “Broad-Band Equivalent Circuit Modeling of Passive SMT Components
Embedded in Conductor Backed Coplanar Waveguide Structures”. In: Proceedings of the 31th International
Convention MIPRO 2008. Vol. 1. May 2008, pp. 191—196.
10. B. Pejcinovic, V. Ceperic, and A. Baric. “Design and Use of FR-4 CBCPW Lines in Test Fixtures for SMD
Components”. In: 14th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, ICECS 2007. Dec.
2007, pp. 375—378.
11. B. Pejcinovic, V. Ceperic, and A. Baric. “Design rules for utilizing conductor-backed co-planar waveguide lines on
FR-4 substrate”. In: Proceedings of Philips Applied Technologies Conference on Electromagnetic Compatibility
(PACE 2007). Sept. 2007, pp. 89—93.
12. V. Ceperic, T. Mandic, and A. Baric. “Simulations of Symmetrical Transverse Electromagnetic Cell”. In:
Proceedings of the 30th International Convention MIPRO 2007. Vol. 1. May 2007, pp. 126—132.
13. T. Mandic, V. Ceperic, and A. Baric. “Time-Domain Response Simulation of Multiconductor Transmission Lines
Excited by an Incident Electromagnetic Field”. In: Proceedings of the 30th International Convention MIPRO 2007.
Vol. 1. May 2007, pp. 109—114.
14. B. Pejcinovic, V. Ceperic, and A. Baric. “Comparison of S-parameters Measured Using Time Domain
Reflectometer and Vector Network Analyzer”. In: Proceedings of the 30th International Convention
MIPRO 2007. Vol. 1. May 2007, pp. 115—119.
15. V. Ceperic, Z. Butkovic, and A. Baric. “Design and Optimization of Self-Biased Complementary Folded Cascode”.
In: IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference, MELECON 2006. May 2006, pp. 145—148.
16. V. Ceperic, B. Dalbelo-Basic, and A. Baric. “EMC-Aware Circuit Design and Optimizations”. In: 18th International
Wroclaw Symposium and Exhibition on Electromagnetic Compatibility. Wroclaw, Poland, 2006.
17. O. Jovic, V. Ceperic, and A. Baric. “Influence of Packaging on the Oscillation Frequency of a High-Voltage CMOS
Quadrature LC Oscillator”. In: Proceedings of the 29th International Convention on Microelectronics, Electronics
and Electronic Technologies (MEET) and Hypermedia and Grid Systems (HGS) (MIPRO 2006). Vol. 1. May
2006, pp.106—109.
18. H. Markovic, V. Ceperic, and A. Baric. “The Influence of Supply Network Parasitics on the Conducted
Electromagnetic Emissions”. In: Proceedings of the 28th International Convention on Microelectronics,
Electronics and Electronic Technologies (MEET) and Hypermedia and Grid Systems (HGS) (MIPRO 2005). Vol. 1.
May 2005, pp. 125—128.
19. V. Ceperic, A. Baric, and B. Pejcinovic. “Artificial neural network in modeling of voltage-controlled oscillators
with jitter”. In: Proceedings of the 12th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference, MELECON 2004. Vol. 1.
2004, pp. 347—350.
20. V. Ceperic and A. Baric. “Modeling of analog circuits by using support vector regression machines”. In:
Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, ICECS 2004. 2004,
pp. 391—394.
21. V. Ceperic and A. Baric. “Modeling of SCFL circuits”. In: Proceedings of the 27th International Convention MIPRC
2004: conferences Microelectronics, Electronics and Electronics Technologies (MEET) and Hypermedia and Grid
System (HGS). May 2004, pp. 72—77.
22. V. Ceperic and A. Baric. “Simulations of GaAs voltage-controlled differential ring oscillators”. In: IEEE EUROCON
2003. Vol. 1. Sept. 2003, pp.151-155.
23. V. Ceperic and A. Baric. “Voltage-Controlled Differential Ring Oscillator Based on the SCFL Delay Cell”. In:
Proceedings of the 26th International Convention on Microelectronics, Electronics and Electronic
Technologies (MEET) and Hypermedia and Grid Systems (HGS) (MIPRO 2003). Vol. 1. May 2003, pp. 70—73.
24. H. Markovic, N. Maric, V. Ceperic, and A. Baric. “High-speed GaAs SCFL digital test structures”. In: Proceedings of
the 9th International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, ICECS 2002. Vol. 2. 2002, pp. 635—639.
25. H. Markovic, V. Ceperic, and A. Baric. “Time-Delay Extraction from Spectral Measurements of High-Speed Digital
Cells”. In: Proceedings of the 25th International Convention on Microelectronics, Electronics and Electronic
Technologies (MEET) and Hypermedia and Grid Systems (HGS) (MIPRO 2002). Vol. 1. May 2002, pp. 25—28.
References Available Upon Request
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