Dragoš Cvetković - Biography#

Dragoš Cvetković was born on March 6, 1941, in Sremska Mitrovica (Serbia, Former Yugoslavia). He graduated Electrical Engineering at University of Belgrade in 1964. In 1971 he got a doctoral degree in Mathematics at Belgrade's University. Since graduating he has been working with Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade. In 1986 he became a Full Professor in Mathematics.

His major field of interest is Discrete Mathematics. He has published over 200 scientific papers and about 70 books (textbooks and monographs, including repeated editions) in graph theory, combinatorics, linear algebra, artificial intelligence, etc.

Dragoš Cvetković's monograph "Spectra of graphs" (coauthors: M.Doob, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, and H.Sachs, Technische Hochschule Ilmenau, Ilmenau) had three English editions (1980, 1982, 1995) and a Russian edition (1984).

During the period 1980-1984 he has implemented (together with a group of collaborators) the interactive programming system "Graph", an expert system for graph theory. He was attending numerous international conferences on graph theory and related fields, he was an invited speaker several times and even an organizer for some of the conferences.

Dragoš Cvetković is or he was a member of Editorial Boards of four Serbian mathemathical journals and Editor-in-Chief for one of them. He was one of Editors of the journal Linear and Multilinear Algebra and a member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Graph Theory for some time. In 1985 he has been elected to be a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts while in 1994 he became a full member of this Academy. From 1991 he was appointed a Honorary Professor at the University of Stirling, Scotland. In the same period he was the President of Yugoslav Society for Applied and Industrial Mathematics. Retired in 2006 and engaged in the Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.