Ljubisa Stankovic - Biography#

Ljubisa Stankovic (Fellow IEEE) was born in Montenegro, on June 1, 1960.

Received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Montenegro, in 1982, as the best student at the University. Two times, in 1980 and 1982 he won an award for the first place in Mathematics in the competitions for Electrical Engineering students in Yugoslavia. He was named "the best student in Montenegro" in 1982.

Stankovic received the M.S. degree in EE in 1984 from the University of Belgrade, and the Ph.D. degree in EE in 1988 from the University of Montenegro. As a Fulbright grantee, he spent 1984/85 academic year at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA. Since 1982, Ljubisa Stankovic has been on the faculty at the University of Montenegro, where he now holds position of a full professor.

Stankovic was also active in politics, as a Vice-president of the Republic of Montenegro (1989-91), and then the leader of democratic (anti-war) opposition in Montenegro (1991-93) and a member of Yugoslav Parliament (1992-1996).

During 1997/98 and 1999 he was on leave at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, with Signal Theory Group, supported by the Alexander von Humboldt foundation. At the beginning of 2001 he spent a period of time at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands, as a visiting professor. During the period of 2001-2002 he was the President of the Governing Board of the Montenegrin state mobile phone company MONET. Currently he is the president of the Council of the state Agency for telecommunication in Montenegro.

His current research interests are in Signal processing. He published about 300 technical papers, 83 of them in the leading international journals, mainly the IEEE editions. He has published several textbooks in Signal Processing.

For scientific achievements he was awarded the highest state award of the Republic of Montenegro in 1997. In 1991, he got the Scientific Achievement Award by the Montenegrin Academy of Science and Art. Group lead by Prof. Stankovic has received the research grant in the period of 2001-2003 from the Volkswagen Foundation, Federal Republic of Germany.

Ljubisa Stankovic is a member of the Yugoslav Engineering Academy, and a member of the National Academy of Science and Art of Montenegro (CANU). He was the Rector (President) of the University of Montenegro for the terms 2003-2005, 2005-2008. He is a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Technical Committee on Theory and Methods (terms 2002-2005 and 2005-2008) and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing for the term 2005-2008.