Miroslav Popovic, Ph.D., received all his degrees from University of Novi Sad, Serbia. He defended his diploma thesis, "An Intelligent System Restart," in 1984, M.Sc. thesis, "An Efficient Virtual Machine System," in 1988, and Ph.D. thesis, "A Contribution to Standardization of ISO OSI Presentation Layer," in 1990. He became a full-time Professor at the University of Novi Sad in 2002. Currently, he is giving courses on software tools and real-time systems programming, as well as on Inter computer communications and computer networks. He is a member of IEEE (both Computer and Communications societies) and ACM. He has published approximately 120 papers and has supervised many real-world projects for the industry, including telephone exchanges and call centers for Russian, German, Czech, and Serbian telecommunication network. Taylor & Francis published his book, Communication Protocol Engineering, in 2006. He served as Serbian MC Member in EU COST 297 High Altitude Platforms of wireless communications, EU COST IC0703 Traffic Monitoring and Analysis, and EU COST Action IC1001 Transactional Memories (Euro- TM). His current research interests are engineering of computer-based systems, parallel programming, distributed systems, and security.
