Anja Babić

Anja Babić was born in 1991 in Zagreb, Croatia. In 2014 she graduated from the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER) and in 2023 she received her PhD from the same institution for her thesis titled “A hyper-heuristic approach to achieving long-term autonomy in a heterogeneous swarm of marine robots”. Since 2015 she has been a researcher at FER and a member of the Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies (LABUST). In 2017 she was a visiting researcher at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche in Genoa, Italy. She is a post-doctoral researcher on the UWIN-LABUST project and was previously involved in the project “Multifunctional Smart Buoys” and in EU H2020 projects subCULTron – Submarine Cultures Perform Long-term Robotic Exploration of Unconventional Environmental Niches and H2020 EXCELLABUST. She participated in developing diver-focused sensing, data processing, and underwater communication as part of the FP7 project CADDY – Cognitive Autonomous Diving Buddy, as well as implementing tasks for a robot-assisted autism spectrum disorder diagnostic protocol using the humanoid robot NAO. Her research interests include evolutionary and bio-inspired robotics, emergent behaviour, task allocation and scheduling, and communication between both heterogeneous agents and members of a swarm, as applied to marine robotic platforms. From 2019 to 2023 she was the Chair of the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society Student Branch Chapter of the University of Zagreb.