Biography

Full biography and list of publications can be downloaded from here.

PERSONAL DATA:

Born August 28, 1962 in Pakrac, Croatia. Marital status: single.

LANGUAGES:

Croatian and English fluent. Can read and write German.

EDUCATION:

1995 – 1998.

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia. Thesis: “Localization of light sources using blind signal separation theory.”

1988 – 1990.

MS, Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia. Thesis: “Optimization of time discrete models for digital real time simulations”.

1982 – 1987.

BS, Electrical Engineering, Military Technical Faculty – Missile systems department, Zagreb, Croatia. Thesis: “Development and application of digital simulators for missile systems.”

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

Experience in blind nonlinear and non-Gaussian signal processing by means of independent component analysis with applications in direction finding, beamforming, spatial filtering, multichannel blind deconvolution, space-time adaptive processing of RADAR signals, multichannel (MIMO) communication systems, blind separation of acoustic signals, single frame and multiframe blind image deconvolution, unsupervised classification of multispectral and hyperspectral images.

Experience in signal and image denoising and compression employing multiscale analysis methods (wavelets and wavelet packets).

Highly proficient in implementation of DSP algorithms in MATLAB, C and assembly languages on embedded systems based on Texas Instruments and Analog Devices digital signal processors and various microcontrollers.

Experience of RF circuits and antennas for HF, UHF and microwave bands.

Working knowledge of the programmable logic design.

Understanding of novel kernel, support vector machines and independent component analysis based machine-learning algorithms with applications in data mining (text categorization, classification).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

11/06 – present

Senior Scientist. Rudjer Boskovich Institute, Zagreb, Croatia. Division of Laser and Atomic Research and Development.

08/05 – 10/06

Consulting and collaborative work with Laboratory for Advanced Brain Signal Processing, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Japan.

09/02 – 07/05

Senior Research Scientist. The George Washington University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.

06/01 – 08/02

Visiting Research Scholar. The George Washington University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.

1/95 - 05/01

Senior advisor for tactical communications and missile systems. Ministry of Defense, Republic of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia.

3/92 – 12/94

DSP design engineer. G&D Electronics Samobor, Croatia.

10/91 – 2/92

DSP design engineer. Marine Institute Zagreb.

9/87 – 6/91

R&D engineer. Radio Industry Zagreb – Professional Electronic. Short wave department, Zagreb, Croatia.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Spring 2009

"Blind signal separation and independent component analysis," graduate course at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia.

Fall 2005, 2006, Spring 2007

“Signals and Systems”, undergraduate course at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Osijek, Croatia.

Spring 2004

“DOA Estimation Using Higher Order Statistics” – part of the ECE 335 graduate course “Signal Processing Antennas”, The George Washington University, ECE Department, Washington, D.C., USA.
“Information maximization approach to independent component analysis” – part of the ECE 284 graduate course “Biomedical signal processing”, The George Washington University, ECE Department, Washington, D.C., USA.

Spring 2003

ECE-161 - “Microcontroller embedded systems”, undergraduate course at The George Washington University, ECE Department, Washington, D.C., USA.

Spring 2000

“Basics of the real time digital simulation of dynamic systems” – lectures on the undergraduate studies of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Zagreb, Croatia.

Fall 1996

“Real time digital simulations” – lectures on the University Zagreb graduate studies “Guidance and Control of the moving objects”, University Zagreb, Croatia.

PHD STUDENTS SUPERVISION:

Marko Filipović

"Learned bases for sparse representation of signals,"
Faculty of Mathematics, University of Zagreb, Croatia, since August 2007.

Ante Jukić

"Tensor factorization based blind separation of multi-dimensional sources,"
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia, since February 2010.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES MEMBERSHIP:

Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE)

Member of the Optical Society of America (OSA)

JOURNAL REFEREE ACTIVITY:

1999 – Present

Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Optics Letters, Optics Communications, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, IEE Proc. Vision, Image and Signal Processing, Information Sciences, Mathematical and Computer Modeling, Waves in Random Media, Optics & Laser Technology, for the areas of blind signal separation, neural networks, image restoration, unsupervised image classification and segmentation, higher order statistics and array signal processing;

CONFERENCE REFEREE ACTIVITY:

IEEE Joint Conference on Neural Networks (2003, 2004, 2005).

IEEE International Circuits and Systems Conference, Seattle, WA, USA; May, 18-21, 2008.

16th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO2008, August 25-29, 2008, Lausanne, Switzerland.

2008 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, July 6-11, 2008, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

State Award of the Republic of Croatia for scientific achievements in for the year 2008 in the field of technical sciences.

Senior Member of the IEEE, September, 2004.

Opponent on the PhD Thesis defense of Toni Huovinen "Independent Component Analysis in DS-CDMA Multiuser Detection and Interference Cancellation," Department of Communication Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland, January 9, 2009.

Organized special session on “Applications of independent component analysis and higher order statistics to array signal processing,” at IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Washington DC, July 3-8, 2005, http://www.apsursi2005.org/.

Lectured short course on “Independent component analysis and blind signal separation with illustrative applications,” at IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Washington DC, July 3-8, 2005, http://www.apsursi2005.org/.

Member of the Program Committee of the 2005 International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC’05) August 23-26, 2005, Hefei, China (http://www.icic2005.org/)

Member of the Program Committee of the SPIE Defense and Security Symposium Conference on Independent Component Analysis, Wavelets and Neural Networks 2002-2005.

COLLOQUIA AND TALKS

I. Kopriva, M. Filipovic (2011). Inpainting and denoising in learned dictionaries, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Andrzej Cichocki’s Laboratory for Advance Brain Signal Processing, Wako-shi, Saitama, Japan, October 26.
I. Kopriva (2011). Tensor factorization for model-free space-variant blind deconvolution of the single- and multi-frame multi-spectral image, The George Washington University, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Washington D.C., USA, February 18, 2011.
I. Kopriva (2011). Tensor factorization for model-free space-variant blind deconvolution of the single- and multi-frame multi-spectral image, Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Computer Science, Richmond, VA, USA, February 16.
I. Kopriva (2010). Tensor Factorization Approach to Blind Separation of Multidimensional Sources, The George Washington University, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Washington D.C., USA, February 19, 2010
I. Kopriva (2010). Tensor Factorization Approach to Blind Separation of Multidimensional Sources, Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Computer Science, Richmond, VA, USA, February 17, 2010
I. Kopriva (2009). (Semi-)blind Source Separation with Sparseness Constraints, The George Washington University, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Washington D.C., USA, February 13.
I. Kopriva (2008). Blind separation of signal sources, Polytechnic of Turin, Laboratory for Engineering of the Neuromuscular Systems, May 21.
I. Kopriva (2007). Blind Separation of Statistically Dependent Sources, Technical University Berlin, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Institute of Energy and Automation Technology, Electronic and Medical Signal Processing Group, Berlin, Germany, October 11.
I. Kopriva (2007). Blind Separation of Statistically Dependent Sources, The George Washington University, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Washington D.C., USA, September 21.
I. Kopriva (2005). Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation with Illustrative Applications, Virginia Tech Alexandria Research Institute, Alexandria, USA, February 24.
W. Wasylkiwskyj, I. Kopriva and D. Nagel (2005). Passive range estimation using short baseline interferometer, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA, February 17.
I. Kopriva and W. Wasylkiwskyj (2004). Improving the accuracy of DOA and range estimation using independent component analysis, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, August 12.
I. Kopriva. (2004). Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation – Application to the Sensory Microsystems, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA, August 20.
I. Kopriva and V. Borjanovic. (2004). Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation – Application to the Sensory Microsystems, International Technology Center, Raleigh, NC, USA, May 19.
I. Kopriva. (2004). DOA Estimation Using Fourth Order Statistics – Aperture Extension and Additive Gaussian Noise Suppression, University of Zagreb – Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia, March 9.
I. Kopriva. (2002), Blind Signal Separation – Basic Theory and Some Applications, The George Washington University, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Washington D.C., USA, April 29.

Dr.sc. Ivica Kopriva