Miroslav Pajic, PhD

Dickinson Family Associate Professor in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering
Associate Professor in Department of Computer Science
Director of the Cyber-Physical Systems Lab (CPSL)
Dr. Pajic's research interests focus on design and analysis of cyber-physical systems with varying levels of autonomy and human interaction, at the intersection of (more traditional) areas of embedded systems, AI, learning and controls, formal methods and robotics.
He is an associate editor in the ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare (ACM HEALTH) and a co-chair of the 2019 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS'19) -- more about his professional service>>
Dr. Pajic has received various awards including
- Dickinson Family Professorship, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University
- 2019 ACM SIGBED Early Career Researcher Award
- 2019 IEEE TCCPS Early-Career Award
- EMSOFT'19 Best Paper Award Finalist
- ONR Young Investigator Award
- NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
- Nortel Networks Professorship, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University
- ACM SIGBED/SIGSOFT Frank Anger Memorial Award
- 2018 IBM Faculty Award
- EMSOFT'17 Best Paper Award
- ICCPS'14 Best Paper Award
- RTAS'12 Best Student Paper Award
- Joseph and Rosaline Wolf Best Dissertation Award from Penn Engineering
- ICCPS'14 Best Paper Finalist (for another paper)
- TACAS'12 Best Paper Candidate
- IPSN'12 Best Presentation Award
- University of Pennsylvania, President Gutmann Leadership Award
- Honeywell User Group Wireless Innovation Award
- School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Best Student Award
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Contact Information
- Office Location: Wilkinson Building 415
- Email Address: miroslav DOT pajic AT duke DOT edu
Education
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 2012
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Dissertation: “Closing the Loop: Architectures and Algorithms for Real-Time Control over Wireless Networks” – Joseph and Rosaline Wolf Best Dissertation Award
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, 2010
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, 2007
School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade,Serbia
Thesis: “Multirate digital signal processing for timing synchronization in digital modems design”
Diploma Engineer in Electrical Engineering, 2003
School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Department of Electronics, Telecommunication and Automatic Control – Best Student Award