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FACULTY OF ORGANIZATION AND INFORMATICSUNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB

Student projects andcooperation with industry

NEVEN VR EKČDEAN

Prof.dr.sc.

www.FOI.unizg.hr

UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB - UNIZG

The oldest and the largest university in Croatia

1669.Founded

29Faculties

3Art

academies

3University

centres

• SRCE- IT Centre• University & National Library• Student Centre

70 000Students

(all study levels)

9 000Teaching staff(all study levels)

1874.Became

State university

www.FOI.unizg.hr

FACULTY OF ORGANIZATION AND INFORMATICS - FOI

• Medium sized faculty • Leading higher

education institution in Croatia to provide education in applied information technology and information sciences

1974.Founded

www.FOI.unizg.hr

FOI FIELDS OF EXPERTISE

• Organizational development • Business process engineering, business

process modelling

• E-business• deployment of e-business standards

(UBL, CII, Core components)• security (PKI, CA, accreditation)• legislative and standards• semantic and technical interoperability• cloud computing – interoperabilty,

cost benefit analysys

• E-Government• Regulatory impact assesment• Legislative and standards

• E-Learning

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FOI FIELDS OF EXPERTISE

• Software modeling and development• Generative programming• Automatic programming• OO Analysis and Design• Service oriented architecture development• Database modeling and design• Web development (XHTML, CSS, Javascript, Java, Web servisi, AJAX)• Database development and administration (Oracle, PL/SQL)• UML Papyrus, Eclipse Modelling Framework (EMF Plugins, metamodelling)• Android development• Windows Phone development• iOS DEvelopment• Scripting languages (Python, Shell, Tcl/Tk, JavaScript, PHP)• GUI languages (Gambas)• Declarative languages (SQL, xPath/xQuery, Prolog, Flora-2, Datalog)

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FOI FIELDS OF EXPERTISE

• Software Architecture• Component oriented architecture, pattern languages• Middleware• Heterogeneous systems (Multicore, GPU, FPGA)

• Database architecture design • postgresql, mysql, mssql, oracle• postgis GEO extensions• Complex relational or NoSQL database design, implementation and tuning• PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, CouchDB, eXist-DB, ZODB, Datalog

• Statistical analysis and data mining• Standard statistical analysis of large data sets (R, SAS, Matlab, Statistica)• Data mining on large data sets (R, SAS, Matlab, Weka)

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FOI FIELDS OF EXPERTISE

• Text mining• Analysis of large collections of documents• Automatic classification, clustering• Semantic information retrieval, dimension reduction• Cross-lingual information retrieval

• Multi-agent Systems• Complex multi-agent system design, development and implementation• Automated planning, negotiation, reasoning etc.• Finite state machines agent implementation• Complex agent knowledge-base and ontology implementation• Agent-based modeling• SPADE (Smart Python Agent Development Environment), Swarm/SLAPP

(Swarm Like Agent Protocol in Python)

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FOI FIELDS OF EXPERTISE

• Formal methods & theory• First order logic• Frame logic• Description logic• BDI logic• Graph theory• Database theory

(relational, active, deductive, temporal, object.relational, object-oriented, semi-structured etc.)

• Autopoiesis theory• Laws of form

• Network development• MAC layer protocol design (JIST/swans)• Wireless networks communication systems• DSRC service development• Multiple sensor application development (V2V

environments)• Implementation of custom network filtering

solutions• Network security tools and techniques:

• VLAN's, L3,L4 i L7 filtering with iptables, pf and pfsense.

• IDS solutions: Snort, OSSEC and VPN's with OpenVPN and IPSec

• cryptographic software and systems development based on open source technologies or standards: OpenSSL, GnuPG, OpenPGP, OpenSSH, X509

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FOI FIELDS OF EXPERTISE

• Network science• Complex network analysis and

visualization• Web network mining• Social and semantic network analytics• NetworkX, Pajek, Lanet-vi, Scrapy

• Information systems security• Security tools: nmap, ncrack, nessus,

openvas, metasploit framework, w3af, skipfish, sqlmap, wireshark, john, oclhashcat

• methodologies: OSSTMM, OWASP, ISO27000 family, NIST SP800

• security testing, security analysis and penetration testing

• cryptography systems implementation and security analysis

• Cloud Computing• configuring and developing

applications for Google App Engine, Salesforce and Microsoft Azure

• migrating data among different cloud computing providers

• application programming interfaces (APIs) based interoperability of cloud computing

• Google Web Toolkit widgets

ACTIVE PROJECTS

ACTIVE PROJECTS

ACTIVE PROJECTS

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INTERNATIONAL OUTREACH

FOI has had experience in:• EU-funded projects: FP6/7, EUREKA, IPA, TEMPUS, LLP, CARDS

• State funded projects: BICRO, HIT, NSF, MSES, ESF

• Industry funded projects

* Countries where FOI

established project cooperation

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FOI STUDENTS IN NUMBERS

2 876STUDENTS

500DEGREES PER YEAR109 SCHOOLS FROM

REGION

How to involve students and foster their creativity?

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STUDENT COMPETITIONS

FOI CORE Smartup natjecanje Social Impact Award 2015

Case Study Competition Imagine Cup 2015

App Start Contest Software StartUp Academy

Akademija regionalnog razvoja i EU fondova

CoinWisdom konferencija Career Boot Camp

Geek Business Camp ZABA Moj Start natječaj

Rubicon Contest 2015 Case Study Competition

CORE HUB natjecanje WinDays15 konferencija

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HACKATHONS

Osijek Software City Hackathon

Shift Split

Niš

RIPE Atlas Hackathon Amsterdam

READY STEADY CODE 2.0

• organizers: Asseco SEE & FOI

• 24 hours

• Biggest hackathon in Croatia

KI expert

• Thermodynamics, construction, building materials• Cooperation

Knauf Insulation d.o.o Novi Marof Technical faculty Rijeka Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture

Zagreb Ministry of Construction and Physical Planning

New version KI Expert

Screenshots

22

Screenshots

Visual identity

24

Visual identity

25

Visual identity

26

Center for student support and career development

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CAREER DAYTips & Tricks 4 IT Business Geeks

Student projects and business cases:

Drop of life (state prize - Croatian pride)

Smart Glove

SeierFriendApp

eVrtić

Tourgent 40+ employers250+ students

2 tracksNew technologies, alumni and employers

networking~1000 streamers

Kap ŽivotaThe Drop Of Life

wedonate.lifekapzivota.hr

PARTICIPANTS

• Core• Croatian institute for transfusion medicine

• Authorized institution for blood donation in Croatia• Asseco SEE

• Largest software exporter in Croatia• Infrastructure provider

• Faculty of Organization and informatics• Krunoslav Domić• Igor Rinkovec• Tomislav Jelčić• Armin Vrević• Alen Huskanović• Irina Rinkovec• Boris Tomaš

• Partners• Infobip d.o.o.

• SMS provider

HISTORY• Ready, Steady, Code 1.0. Hackathon

– 1st place

• Ponos Hrvatske 2015 (Croatian Pride Award)

• Annual award for creativity and innovation in category of social responsibility

FEATURES• Free software• Volunteer based participation• CRM system for blood donors• Mobile application• Donation scheduling• Closest donation spot search• Education module for informing potential

and current donors about importance of donations, procedure, and benefits.• Statistics and gamification (social networks

integration)• Call for action (institution target specific

donors and invite them to donate)

FUTURE

• 2016 – Full implementation in Croatia

• Cross platform solution (native)

• Localization and globalization

• Cross border blood donation mechanism

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STUDENT SUPPORT

Startup@foi•Support for establishment of companies•Free consulting, legal assistance, accounting services, working space and networking

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http://www.tourgent.co/

www.FOI.unizg.hr

http://www.mybeeline.co

Future?

• How to further boost the most creative part of life?• How to reduce risks?• How to reduce curriculum rigidity?• How to ensure sustainability?• Cooperation opportunities within the region?