Ivana Palunko

Ivana Palunko is an associate professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Dubrovnik. She is the Head of the Laboratory of intelligent autonomous systems-LARIAT. 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 (FER). In 2013/2014 she was a visiting researcher at Information-oriented Control, TU Muenchen, Germany under supervision of prof. Sandra Hirche. Her main research interests are in modeling and control of aerial vehicles, robust and adaptive control, optimal control and reinforcement learning, decentralized control of multiagent systems.