Doc. Dr. Sc. Nikola Lopac received the BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees in Electrical engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka, in 2015, 2017, and 2022, respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor (Docent) and the Head of the Laboratory for Information Processing (iPRO Lab) at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Automation and Computing at the Faculty of Maritime Studies, University of Rijeka. He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula. He is also a Head of the Laboratory for Cybersecurity of Communication and Navigation Devices and a member of the Laboratory for Information Processing and Pattern Recognition at the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity, University of Rijeka.
Dr. Lopac has been appointed to the scientific grades of Research associate in the field of Electrical engineering and Research associate in the field of Traffic technology and transport, according to the National Council for Science, Higher Education and Technological Development. He has led or participated in several research projects funded by local, national, and European funding sources. He has also authored a number of papers in international peer-reviewed journals indexed in the Web of Science (CC, SCIE, ESCI) database and presented his work at several international scientific conferences. Moreover, he has reviewed over 230 research papers for 23 international CC journals and has been a member of the Editorial Board of the WoS journal. He was also a member of organizing and scientific committees of scientific conferences and an editor of the associated proceedings. He regularly participates in science popularization activities. He has also spent several months as a visiting researcher at several universities in Europe and Japan and attended summer schools in the fields of image processing and deep learning.
Dr. Lopac received several awards for his academic and research achievements, including the award for research excellence from the Faculty of Maritime Studies, University of Rijeka, the Annual Hrvoje Pozar Award from the Foundation of the Croatian Energy Association, the Rector’s Award from the University of Rijeka, and five Annual Dean’s awards from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka.
His research interests include digital signal processing, time-frequency signal analysis, image processing and analysis, information processing, computer vision, and the application of artificial intelligence and deep learning.
