ICONIC Team Received 1st Prize on IEEE VTS UAV Challenge

Date: December 2020.

Great news for the end of the year! Our PhD student team lead by Srdjan Sobot that includes Dusan Bortnik and Vladimir Nikic (ICONIC, University of Novi Sad) and Brena Lima (COPELABS, Lusofona University) won the first prize and qualified for Stage 2 of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society UAV Innovation Challenge with their design entry entitled “Two-Tier UAV-based NB-IoT Networks for Coordinated Missions in Deep Rural Environments”. Looking forward to deployment stage!

Link for IEEE VTS Innovation Challenge: https://events.vtsociety.org/vtc2020-fall/authors/vts-innovation-challenge-for-students/

Paper Published in Proceedings of the IEEE!

Date: November 2020

Research paper entitled “Primal-Dual Methods for Large-Scale and Distributed Convex Optimization and Data Analytics” with ICONIC researcher Dragana Bajovic as a coauthor is published in flagship IEEE journal Proceedings of the IEEE. Congratulations!

Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9151295

Paper Published in IEEE TVT

Date: October 2020

Research paper entitled “Mixed RF-VLC Relaying Systems for Interference-Sensitive Mobile Applications” with ICONIC researchers Milica Petkovic, Milan Narandzic and Dejan Vukobratovic as coauthors is published in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. Congratulations!

Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9136906

ICONIC researchers part of H2020 INCISIVE

Date: 01st October 2020.

H2020 project INCISIVE (A multimodal AI-based toolbox and an interoperable health imaging repository for the empowerment of imaging analysis related to the diagnosis, prediction and follow-up of cancer) kick-started in October 2020. ICONIC centre researcher Prof. Tatjana Loncar-Turukalo is a Scientist in Charge on behalf of the University of Novi Sad, and the project will involve a number of researchers from ICONIC. For more information about the project, please see the project webpage: https://incisive-project.eu/.

H2020 INCOMING Newsletter No 1

Date: 30th September 2020.

H2020 INCOMING project is a flagship project of ICONIC centre that aims to upgrade the centre research and innovation activities in the following three years (2020-2022): https://incoming.ftn.uns.ac.rs/.

As part of the project, we are starting with a host of activies during 2020/2021. Read how the project is set up and the results in the first 9 months of the project in H2020 INCOMING Newsletter No 1.

Link on PDF document: Newsletter_NO1_September2020_ICONIC

Innovation Fund Proof of Concept Project

Date: September 2020

The Proof of Concept project on federated learning empowered NB-IoT device for number recognition for legacy smart metering applications is approved for funding by Innovation Fund of Republic of Serbia. Congratulations to Dr Ivan Mezei, project lead, and all ICONIC staff involved in this research and development project.

Link: https://www.inovacionifond.rs/program/dokaz-koncepta