Renato Filjar

Renato Filjar is a Full Professor of Electronics Engineering (Tenure) with the Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka, Croatia; Researcher with Laboratory for Data Mining, Open and Big Data, Center for Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia; and a Full Professor (Tenure), Head of Laboratory for Spatial Intelligence, and Vice-Dean for science and international cooperation at the Krapina University of Applied Sciences, Krapina, Croatia. He established and organized the traditional Baška GNSS conference, and Baška SIF (Spatial Information Fusion) Forum, held annually in Baška, Krk Island, Croatia.

His professional interests include: GNSS PNT; statistical, statistical and computer science framework for the Ambient-Aware Applications-Aligned (AA)2 PNT; spatial uncertainty quantification; spatial statistical analysis, statistical/machine learning and predictive modeling; trajectory analysis and prediction; occupancy detection and modeling; anomaly and change-point detection; statistical signal processing; Software-Defined Radio (SDR), and nature-inspired navigation.

Professor Filjar is committed to international science, research, development, commercialization, and education activities and initiatives related to satellite navigation, through his expert cooperation with the United Nations International Committee on GNSS (UN ICG) WG S and its IDM Sub-Group, International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI), European Commission, European Telecommunications Standardisation Institute (ETSI), and universities across the world.

Professor Filjar is a Fellow of The Royal Institute of Navigation (RIN), London, United Kingdom (UK), a Member of the Institute of Navigation (ION), a Senior Member of Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale, Ghent, Belgium, and a Member of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Philadelphia, PA. Professor Filjar was presented with the RIN J. E. D. Williams (Silver) Medal in 2010 and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the International TransNav Conference (Maritime University of Gdynia, Gdynia, Poland) in 2021. He holds BSc (1987), MSc (1994) and Ph.D. (2007) degrees in electrical engineering, respectively, from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia.