Ivana Palunko

Ivana Palunko, PhD is an associate professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Dubrovnik. She earned her Ph.D. in 2012 in Controls Systems from University of New Mexico, USA under supervision of prof. Rafael Fierro. From 2012 until 2014, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the Research Centre for Advanced Cooperative Systems (ACROSS) at the Department of Control and Computer Engineering, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (UNIZG-FER). In 2013/2014, she was a visiting researcher at Information-oriented Control, TU Muenchen, Germany under supervision of prof. Sandra Hirche. In 2014 she joined the University of Dubrovnik as an assistant professor. In 2019, she founded the Laboratory for Intelligent Autonomous Systems (LARIAT) at the University of Dubrovnik, and currently she is the head of LARIAT. She authored and co-authored more than 35 scientific peer-reviewed papers. Also, she coordinated and participated in more than 20 projects funded by EU FP7, H2020, HORIZON Europe, ESF, Interreg, US NSF, NATO SfP, EOARD, HRZZ, etc. Her main research interests are in optimal adaptive control, machine learning andartificial intelligence with applications in robotics and multi-agentsystems.