Dražen Lučanin, PhD ____________________________________________________

Education

2011–2016	Computer Science PhD, Faculty of Informatics, Vienna University of Technology
2009–2011	Computer Science MSc, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb
2006–2009	Computer Science BSc, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb

Employment

2015–	Founder & software developer, Dražen Lučanin e.U.
2011–2015	Research assistant, Distributed Systems Group, Vienna University of Technology
2011–2012	External associate, Department of Electronics, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb
2009–2010	Software developer, Department of Distributed and Multimedia Systems, University of Vienna

Research

Research projects

HALEY – Holistic Energy Efficient Approach for the Management of Hybrid Clouds, Vienna University of Technology research award, 2011–2015
FOC-II – Forecasting Financial Crises, FP7, 2011–2012
AMASL – Ambient Assisted Shared Living, University of Vienna, 2009–2010

Publications

Refereed publications in journals

Dražen Lučanin*, Ilia Pietri*, Simon Holmbacka*, Ivona Brandić, Johan Lilius, Rizos Sakellariou. Performance-Based Pricing in Multi-Core Geo-Distributed Cloud Computing. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. (arXiv, IEEE Xplore, doi:10.1109/TCC.2016.2628368, *equal contribution)
Dražen Lučanin, Ivona Brandić. Pervasive Cloud Controller for Geotemporal Inputs. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 180–195, April–June 2016. (arXiv, IEEE Xplore, doi: 10.1109/TCC.2015.2464794)

Refereed publications in conference proceedings

Soodeh Farokhi, Pooyan Jamshidi, Dražen Lučanin, Ivona Brandić. Performance-based Vertical Memory Elasticity. 12^th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2015), 7–10 July, 2015, Gronoble, France. (preprint, IEEE Xplore, doi:10.1109/ICAC.2015.51)
Dražen Lučanin, Ilia Pietri, Ivona Brandić, Rizos Sakellariou. A Cloud Controller for Performance-Based Pricing. 8^th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2015), 27 June – 2 July, 2015, New York, USA. (arXiv, IEEE Xplore, doi:10.1109/CLOUD.2015.30)
Dražen Lučanin, Foued Jrad, Ivona Brandić, and Achim Streit. Energy-Aware Cloud Management through Progressive SLA Specification. 11^th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services (GECON 2014). 16–18 September, 2014, Cardiff, UK. (arXiv, SpringerLink, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-14609-6_6)
Dražen Lučanin, Ivona Brandić. Take a break: cloud scheduling optimized for real-time electricity pricing. Proceedings of the 3^rd International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC), 30 September – 2 October, 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany. (arXiv, IEEE Xplore, doi:10.1109/CGC.2013.25)
Dragan Gamberer, Dražen Lučanin, Tomislav Šmuc. Analysis of World Bank Indicators for Countries with Banking Crises by Subgroup Discovery Induction. Proceedings of the 36^th International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics (MIPRO). 20–24 May, 2013, Opatija, Croatia. (IEEE Xplore, CROSBI)
Toni Mastelić, Dražen Lučanin, Andreas Ipp, Ivona Brandić. Methodology for trade-off analysis when moving scientific applications to the Cloud. CloudCom 2012, 4^th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science. 3–6 December, 2012, Tapei, Taiwan. (preprint, IEEE Xplore, doi:10.1109/CloudCom.2012.6427575)
Dragan Gamberer, Dražen Lučanin, Tomislav Šmuc. Descriptive modeling of systemic banking crises. The 15^th International Conference on Discovery Science (DS 2012), 29–31 October, 2012, Lyon, France. (preprint, SpringerLink, CROSBI, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-33492-4_8)
Matija Gulić, Dražen Lučanin, Nina Skorin-Kapov. A Two-Phase Vehicle based Decomposition Algorithm for Large-Scale Capacitated Vehicle Routing with Time Windows. Proceedings of the 35^th International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics (MIPRO), 21–25 May, 2012, Opatija, Croatia. (preprint, IEEE Xplore)
Dražen Lučanin, Ivan Fabek, Domagoj Jakobović. A visual programming language for drawing and executing flowcharts. Proceedings of the 34^th International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics (MIPRO). 23–27 May, 2011, Opatija, Croatia. Best student paper award. (arXiv, IEEE Xplore)
Matija Gulić, Dražen Lučanin, Ante Šimić, Šandor Dembitz. A digit and spelling speech recognition system for the Croatian language. Proceedings of the 34^th International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics (MIPRO). 23–27 May, 2011, Opatija, Croatia. (IEEE Xplore)

Refereed publications in workshop proceedings

Dražen Lučanin, Michael Maurer, Toni Mastelić, Ivona Brandić. Energy Efficient Service Delivery in Clouds in Compliance with the Kyoto Protocol. 1^st International Workshop on Energy-Efficient Data Centers, 8^th May, 2012, Madrid, Spain. (arXiv, SpringerLink, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-33645-4_9)

Theses

Dražen Lučanin. Energy Efficient Cloud Control and Pricing in Geographically Distributed Data Centers. PhD thesis, Faculty of Informatics, Vienna University of Technology, June, 2016. (arXiv)
Dražen Lučanin. Visual definition of procedures for automatic virtual scene generation. Master’s thesis, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, June, 2011. (arXiv)
Dražen Lučanin. Graphical user interface for a video-conferencing application accessible to the elderly. Bachelor’s thesis, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, June, 2009.

Activities

Research visits

Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM), Cloud Control for Performance-Based Pricing. COST Action IC1305 Network for Sustainable Ultrascale Computing (NESUS), carried out at the University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom; 5–20 December, 2014.
2^nd COST IC804 Training School on Energy Efficiency in Large Scale Distributed Systems, University of Balearic Islands (UIB), Palma de Mallorca, Spain; 24–27 April, 2012.

Scientific talks

Energy-Aware Cloud Management through Progressive SLA Specification. COST IC1305 NESUS Meeting, Paris, France; 1–2 December, 2014.
Energy-aware Cloud Management through Progressive SLA Specification. 5^th Cloud Control Workshop, Moelle, Sweden; 20–22 August, 2014.
Collaborations with Univ. Toulouse. Energy Efficiency in Large Scale Distributed Systems conference, Vienna, Austria; 22–24 April 2013.
Kyoto Protocol Compliant Management of Data Centers. COST 804 focus group “Energy and QoS-aware Workload Manangent in Clouds” meeting, INRIA Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique, France; 27^th March, 2012.

In addition, personally presented all the conference and workshop publications with first authorship.

Other activities

Track chair for GECON 2015, 12^th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems and Services.
Program comitee member for CloudComp 2012, 3^rd International Conference on Cloud Computing, Vienna, Austria; 24–26 September, 2012.
Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, SuperComputing, CCGrid, (EC)2, Euro-Par, PDP, International Conference on Runtime Verification, WETICE, WORKS, BISE / WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK.
Member, IEEE, 2012–2015.

Honours, awards & scolarships

EuroPython attendance grant, 2013.
Google student grant for attending the EuroPython conference, 2012.
Best Student Paper award – A visual programming language for drawing and executing flowcharts. MIPRO 2011. (see section Research)
Best Student Computer Program award – RoboDJ , Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, 2010.
Two times Croatian Ministry of Education student scholarship, 2006 - 2009 and 2009-2011.
Two times Erasmus student exchange scholarship, 2009 and 2011 at the University of Vienna.

Last updated: September 18, 2018