University of Kragujevac
Team Members
Zoran Kalinić
Zoran Kalinic is Professor at the Faculty of Economics, University of Kragujevac, Serbia and holds a PhD degree in Software Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac. He has been involved in several, both national and international, projects related to the different aspects of information-communication technologies, including several TEMPUS and ERASMUS+ projects. Also, he has taught as a Guest Lecturer at Krakow University of Economics, Poland; University of Maribor, Slovenia; University of Evora, Portugal; Saimaa University of Applied Sciences, Finland; Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania; University of Economics in Katowice, Poland; University of Jordan in Amman, Jordan, etc. Zoran Kalinic is the author of more than 120 scientific papers and monograph chapters, with more than 25 papers published in leading scientific journals with impact factor. His research interests include digital transformation, digital labor market, e-business, mobile and e-commerce, and the application of artificial intelligence in business and management.
Vladan Ivanović
Vladan Ivanović is Professor of Economics at the University of Kragujevac and a senior researcher at the Public Policy Research Centre. He holds a second PhD in Economics from the University of Hohenheim, Germany, as a scholar of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. He finished the International Development Studies program at the University of Oslo, conducted research at Harvard University and MIT, and lectured at several international and national universities and schools (i.e., Mendel University and ILIA State University). Vladan Ivanović was a Fellow of the CERGE-EI Foundation (2020-2024) and Erasmus+ Ambassador for Serbia (2022-2024). He participated in various national and international projects, including those of the World Bank, the EU, the Olof Palme Foundation, and the Serbian Ministry of Science and Technology. His research focuses on institutional economics and the economics of innovation and technological change. Ivanović has published over 90 scientific papers and technical reports on related topics.
Vladimir Ranković
Vladimir Ranković, Full Professor of Applied Computing at the Faculty of Economics and Rector at the University of Kragujevac. Vladimir Ranković is the director of the undergraduate study program in Business Informatics and of the master study program in Artificial Intelligence in Business at the Faculty of Economics. He received PhD in Applied Computing at the University of Kragujevac. Vladimir participated in several national and international scientific projects related to computer modeling and simulations, numerical methods, evolutionary algorithms and optimization. He is the author of several papers published in leading scientific journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, Computers & Operations Research and Finance Research Letters. His current research focuses on intelligent systems and computational methods and techniques in finance and management. This includes evolutionary multi-objective optimization, machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques and their application in finance and management.