Laboratory Head

Gregor Kosec Graduated at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics in 2006 and obtained Ph.D. in 2011 at University of Nova Gorica. In 2011 he became a member of Parallel and Distributed Systems Laboratory at Jožef Stefan Institute. In 2020 he became head of the Parallel and Distributed Systems Laboratory. His research interest covers computational modelling, adaptive meshless numerical analysis and parallel computing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

PhD Students

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.

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 at the Department of Communication Systems at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana.

Technical Staff

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

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.

Students

Marko Urbanč Is pursuing his B.Sc. in Physics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana. He is currently working on domain decomposition in context of meshless methods.

Erazem Stonič Is pursuing first cycle degree in Applied physics and in Biotechnology at the University of Ljubjana. Especially keen on development of novel biometric technologies enhanced by the application of the advanced computational algorithms. Highly interested in any kind of unconventional computing methods.

Luka Jože Pušlar Is pursuing his B.Sc. in Physics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana. He is currently working on mathematical models and their application.

Jan Jure Stojanovič Is pursuing his B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana. His research interests include environmental modelling and using artificial intelligence for sustainable development. He is currently working on weather model validation.

Matej Kavčnik Holds a Bachelor's degree in Physics from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Ljubljana. Currently, he is pursuing a Masters degree in Physics Education and works on the improvement of the DTR model.

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.

Iva Eftimska received her BS degree in Electical Engineering from University of Ljubljana,in 2021. She is currently pursuing her MSc in Control Systems and Computer Engineering at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, in Ljubljana. Her interests are: Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Machine Learning and Deep Learning.

Žiga Vaupotič studies at High School Jožeta Plečnika Ljubljana. His research interests include meshless methods, partial differential equations, and numerical methods for solving partial differential equations.

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"

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