Laboratory Head

Gregor Kosec Graduated from the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, in 2006 and received his PhD from the University of Nova Gorica in 2011. In 2011, he became a member of the Parallel and Distributed Systems Laboratory at the Jožef Stefan Institute and in 2020 he became the head of the laboratory. His main research interests are numerical modelling, meshless methods and thermal modelling of power grids.

Full-time researchers

Aleksandra Rashkovska-Koceva Received B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, Macedonia, in 2006, and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 2013. She is currently a Research Fellow at the Department of Communication Systems, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her research interest includes advanced bio-signal analysis, computer simulations in biomedicine, biomedical applications of data mining and control theory, and data mining in sensor networks.

Matjaž Depolli Received a PhD in computer and information science from Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School Ljubljana in 2010. He currently hold the position of research fellow at the Department of Communication Systems at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana. His research interests include evolutionary computation, computer simulation of physical phenomena, parallel computing, and ECG analysis. He's been involved in the development of wireless body sensors, software for ECG analysis, cluster management software, and cloud services.

Filip Strniša Received his M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Ljubljana. He is currently a research assistant at the Department of Communication Systems, Jožef Stefan Institute. Among his research interests are modelling transport phenomena, the lattice Boltzmann method, and parallel computing.

PhD Students

Miha Rot Received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in physics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana. He is currently a PhD Student at the Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School. His research interests include meshless methods, computational hydrodynamics and stabilisation schemes.

Andrej Kolar - Požun Received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Physics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana. He is currently working on meshless methods in computational electromagnetics.

Nika Mlinarič Received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Physics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana. She is currently a PhD student in the Department of Communication Systems at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, interested in Dynamic thermal rating of transmission lines.

Jon Vehovar received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in physics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana. He is developing meshless methods for HPC systems.

Gašper Golob Received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in mathematics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana. He is currently a PhD student at the Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School. His research interests include meshless methods and stabilization schemes.

Part-time researchers

Maciej Matyka Received a PhD from Institute of Theoretical Physics at UWr in 2009. He is interested in physics of fluid flow, porous media, computer simulation methods, programming, new technologies in computer science, parallel computing including GPU and compute shaders, machine learning, complex systems and physics education, demoscene, computer graphics and physically based modelling in computer animation.

Magd Abdel Wahab Obtained his PhD in fracture mechanics from the KU Leuven in Belgium. His research interests are mainly in the fields of applied mechanics, fracture mechanics and structural dynamics of structures with emphasis on the detection and assessment of damage, the investigation of long-term durability and failure mechanisms and the analysis of fractures using various numerical methods.

Dawid Strzelczyk Graduated from Wrocław University of Science and Technology (Eng.) and Warsaw University of Technology (M.Sc.) in the fields of Mechanical Engineering. Obtained PhD in the field of Physics and Astronomy at University of Wrocław, where his research focused on the development and applications of meshless Lattice Boltzmann Method. His scientific interests are (computational) fluid dynamics (especially Lattice Boltzmann Method), numerical methods and porous media.

Technical Staff

Tomaž Krištofelc project associate at Department of Communications Systems, primary work on hardware solutions, and covering technical assistance.

Students

Kristofer Č. Povšič Is currently pursuing B. Sc. in Physics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana. Currently working on numerical solutions of PDEs.

Žiga Vaupotič Is pursuing a B.Sc in Mathematics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics in University of Ljubljana. His research interests include meshless methods, partial differential equations, and numerical methods for solving partial differential equations.

Jure Čuček Is Pursuing a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Web Technologies on Faculty of Information Studies. He is currently working as a technical associate at Department of Communication Systems in Parallel and Distributed Systems Laboratory at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana.

Vagif Osmanov Is Pursuing a B.Sc in Physics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics in University of Ljubljana. He is working on numerical solutions of PDEs. His main interest is fluid dynamics.

Liza Logar received her B.Sc. in Financial Mathematics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana in 2024 and is currently pursuing her M.Sc. at the same university. She is working on models for weather prediction.

Vita Komel received her B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science and is currently pursuing her M.Sc. at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana. She is working on models for weather prediction.

Petra Kuralt is pursuing a M.Sc in Computer in information science at Faculty of Computer and Information science. She is interested in machine learning, with a focus on physics-informed neural networks and dynamical systems.

Tinkara Hazl Is currently finishing her B.Sc. in Mathematics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Ljubljana. She is working on numerical solutions to PDEs and their applications in fluid dynamics.

Alumni

Roman Trobec retired PI, received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Ljubljana in 1988. He was a PI and the head of the Parallel and Distributed Systems Laboratory till his retirement in 2020. He also held the position of associate professor in Computer Science at the University of Ljubljana. He has supervised/co-supervised 10 PhD's and 4 post-doctoral fellows. His research interests are in computer science, in particular, parallel algorithms He authored or co-authored more than 90 peer-reviewed papers. He is a co-author of six Springer monographs and more than fifty contributed books.

Viktor Avbelj Senior research fellow Dr. Viktor Avbelj obtained Ph.D. in Electrical Enigeeering from the University of Ljubljana in 2003. The areas of his work are measurements and analysis of biological phenomena (especially in the field of electrocardiology, ECG) in humans and animals.

Monika Kapus-Kolar received her B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maribor, Slovenia, and her M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Since 1981 she has been with the Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, where she is currently a senior research fellow at the Department of Communication Systems. Her work is focused on formal specification techniques and methods for the development of real-time, concurrent and reactive systems.

Jure Slak Received his PhD in mathematics in 2020 at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana. He is a post-graduate researcher at Parallel and Distributed Systems Laboratory, Department E6, Jožef Stefan Institute. His work is focused on meshless methods for solving partial differential equations, primarily node generation and adaptivity.

Marjan Šterk

Rituraj Singh

Elena Merdjanovska received her B.Sc. degree in Computer Technologies and Engineering from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies in Skopje, in 2019. She is currently pursuing her M.Sc. at the Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School in Ljubljana and is a student researcher at the Department of Communication Systems, Jozef Stefan Institute. Her research interests include machine learning and signal processing, with a focus on applications to ECG signals.

Viktor Cvrtila received his B.Sc. in Mathematics at the University of Ljubljana in 2021. He is currently working on evaluating linear solvers to optimize numerical solvers for PDEs and also implementing a method for filling implicit surfaces.

Blaž Rojc Received his B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science in 2019 and is currently pursuing his M.Sc. at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana. He is a student researcher at the Department of Communication Systems, Jozef Stefan Institute. His research interests include numerical methods and high performance computing.

Sebastijan Mrak received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Boston University in 2020. His research includes GNSS remote sensing of ionospheric irregularities and scintillations. He was a young scientist in NASA LWS Institute on Mid-latitude scintillations 2019 and is currently a team member of the ISSI 2021 team on "Multi-scale magnetosphere- ionosphere-thermosphere coupling"

Andrej Lipej Graduated at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics in 1984 and obtained Ph.D. in 1999 at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana. He began his professional career in 1984 at Turboinštitut as a researcher and completed it in 2013 as Head of Basic Research. From 2013 he is full time employed at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Novo mesto. In 2010 he became a part time member of Parallel and Distributed Systems Laboratory (IJS). His main research work includes computational fluid dynamics, design of hydraulic machines and optimization methods. He is a member of executive committee of International Association for Hydraulic research, section of Hydraulic Machinery and Systems since 2008.

Mitja Jančič Received the B.S. in physics continued to M.Sc. in mechanical engineering, both at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. He is currently in pursuit of a PhD at the Jožef Stefan international postgraduate school. He also holds the position of a research fellow at the Department of Communication Systems at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana. His research interests include meshless methods, numerical procedures for solving PDE systems and generic programming algorithms.

Ivan Tomasic received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Zagreb in 2013. During his Ph.D. study he was a researcher at the Department of Communication Systems, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he is currently a research fellow. He also works at Mälardalen University, School of Innovation, Design and Engineering (IDT), Sweden as an associate professor. His research interests include remote health monitoring, applied statistical analysis, data storage and analysis, industrial intelligent systems.

Miha Mohorčič is a technical associate at Department of Communication Systems in Parallel and Distributed Systems Laboratory. His work is focused on gathering and processing of biomedical data, focusing on ECG signals and low powered wearable devices.

Nina Verdel Received her M.Sc. in Medical Physics from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana in 2016 and her Ph.D. in Physics from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana in 2020. As a young researcher, she worked at the Jožef Stefan Institute from 2016-2020. After her PhD, she was employed at Mid Sweden University within the Horizon ''SINTEC'' project. Currently, she is a researcher in the Department of Communication Systems and in the Department of Automatics, Biocybernetics and Robotics at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, as well as at the Faculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana, in the Laboratory of Biomechanics.

Igor Tominec Research Associate at Jozef Stefan Institute, working on numerical methods for PDEs in multiphysics simulations including climate, biomedical, and energy applications. His research bridges computational methods and mathematical rigor to improve simulation reliability. Igor holds a Ph.D. in Numerical Analysis (Uppsala University, 2022) and an M.Sc. in Computational Science and Engineering (TUM, 2017). He was previously a postdoc at Stockholm University and Sr. Algorithm and Software Developer at Qamcom Research and Technology (Stockholm).

Past student researchers

Anja Pirnat, Tjaž Silovšek, Jure Močnik - Berljavac, Ivan Pribec, Anja Petkovic, Maks Kolman, Matjaž Ličar, Primož Lavrič, Jure Lapajne, Blaž Stojanovič, Domen Lisjak, Anže Alič, Janez Radešček, Matej Rojec, Uroš Kozole, Urban Duh, Tinka Drozdek, Jan Jure Stojanovič, Iva Eftimska, Erazem Stonič, Matej Kavčnik, Marko Urbanč, Luka Jože Pušlar, Vito Levstik, Tamara Trajkovska, Adrijan Rogan,