Professor Zoran Vukić

Professor Zoran Vukić

Zoran Vukić is a Full Professor at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Department of Control and Computer Engineering with more than 40 years of experience in education and research. At present he is Head of the Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies (LABUST) (http://labust.fer.hr/) and Director of the NGO ‘Center for underwater systems and technologies’ (CUST) (http://www.cepost.hr/). He specialized at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden and at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, USA. He has published four books, three book chapters and more than 200 papers. His research interest is in the application of control theory for marine vessels, both surface and underwater, especially the area of cooperative navigation guidance and control, robust and adaptive control, nonlinear control, intelligent control, fault tolerant and reconfigurable control. He has led a number of national and international research projects. He is also a member of various professional societies such as: IEEE, IFAC TC on Marine Systems and the Croatian Registry of Shipping. Zoran Vukić is General chair of the field-training ‘Breaking the surface’ (http://bts.fer.hr ).