Sep 2025 - Present
Post-doctoral researcher
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Advisor: Prof. Ali H. Sayed
CV
Last updated: October 2026
Download full CV (PDF)Experience
Aug 2020 - Aug 2025
Graduate research assistant
Carnegie Mellon University
Advisor: Prof. Soummya Kar
Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
Visiting researcher
University of Pennsylvania
Advisor: Prof. Alejandro Ribeiro
Nov 2018 - Jun 2020
Junior researcher
Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad
Advisor: Prof. Dušan Jakovetić
Jul 2018 - Oct 2018
Junior researcher
BioSense Institute, University of Novi Sad
Feb 2018 - Jul 2018
Visiting researcher
Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana
Advisor: Prof. Blaž Zupan
Education
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA, USA
M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics
Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad · Novi Sad, Serbia
B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics
Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad · Novi Sad, Serbia
Publications
For a complete list of journal articles, conference papers, preprints, and textbooks, see my Publications page →
Awards and Honors
2026
ICML Gold Reviewer
Awarded to the top 25% of reviewers based on Area Chair ratings.
2023
IBM PhD Fellowship - Finalist
One of three nominees from the ECE Department, Carnegie Mellon University.
2020
Dean’s Fellowship
ECE Department, Carnegie Mellon University.
2019
Annual Award of the Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts - Finalist
Award for M.Sc. students in the field of computing.
Mentoring and Teaching
- Student mentoring:
- Haoyuan Cai - PhD student, EPFL (Fall 2025 - Present). Active supervision and research collaboration, resulting in multiple research papers.
- Himkant Sharma - Research intern, Carnegie Mellon University (Summer 2024). Supervised research culminating in a conference publication.
- Teaching: Served as Teaching Assistant for the graduate course Linear Systems at the ECE department at Carnegie Mellon University, in Fall 2022 and Fall 2023.
- Textbook: Co-author of Distributed Optimization with Applications (2020), a graduate textbook developed for and used in a course at the University of Novi Sad.
For more details, visit the Mentoring & Teaching page →
Academic Service
- Conference reviewer: IEEE ISIT, AISTATS, ICML, NeurIPS, AAAI.
- Journal reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Journal of Machine Learning Research.
- Student council for faculty hiring: Served on the ECE Department’s student council for faculty hiring in 2023. Participated in interviewing faculty candidates to assess their potential to effectively mentor graduate students and foster healthy advisor-mentee relationships.
Talks and Presentations
2026
Invited talk, “Bogoljub Stanković” Seminar
University of Novi Sad, Serbia
2026
43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
Seoul, South Korea
2026
39th Conference on Learning Theory (COLT)
San Diego, USA
2025
33rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)
Palermo, Italy
2025
28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)
Mai Khao, Thailand
2024
58th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers
Monterey Bay, USA
2023
31st European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)
Helsinki, Finland
2022
39th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
Baltimore, USA
2019
IEEE EUROCON 18th International Conference on Smart Technologies
Novi Sad, Serbia
2018
US-Serbia & West Balkan Data Science Workshop, NSF Serbia
Belgrade, Serbia