Doc. dr Andjela Draganić

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Personal information

First name: Andjela
Last name: Draganić 
Sex: Female 
Citizenship: Montenegro

Areas of current interest and research

• Digital signal processing
• Time-frequency signal analysis
• Compressive sensing
• Sparse signal reconstruction algorithms
• Digital Electronics Devices

Topics of the current research

• Time-frequency analysis and its applications in communications and audio signals
• Compressive sensing and its applications in communications and audio signals

Education

• BSc, 2011, in Electrical Engineering at the University of Montenegro
• MSc, 2013, in Electrical Engineering at the University of Montenegro
  • MSc thesis title: “Decomposition and reconstruction of multicomponent signals using time-frequency analysis and compressive sensing”; Thesis Supervisor Prof. dr Srdjan Stanković
• PhD, 2018, in Electrical Engineering at the University of Montenegro
  • PhD thesis title: “Analysis of non-stationary multicomponent signals with a focus on the Compressive Sensing approach”; Thesis Supervisor Prof. dr Srdjan Stanković

Professional experience

• June 2024 – present – Vice Dean for Finance at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Montenegro

• June 2025 – present – Member of the Masters Studies Monitoring Board and the Quality Assurance Board at the University of Montenegro

• June 2025 – present – Handling Editor (Editorial Board Member) of Signal Processing, a prestigious Q1-ranked journal in the field of signal processing according to the SCImago classification

• 2018 – present – Member of the Center of Young Scientists and Artists at the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts

• 2011-2021- Teaching Assistant at the University of Montenegro 

• 2021-present - Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Montenegro
• Courses taught:
  • Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Montenegro: Multimedia Systems, Digital Electronics, Basics of Electronics, Analog and Digital Electronics, Information Systems, Web Programming, Basics of Computer Engineering, Mathematics in Computer Science, Digital television and multimedia communications, Digital processing of biomedical signals and images, Parallel Programming, Protection and Security of Multimedia and Computer Data, Selected Chapters from Digital Systems
     
  • Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality,  University of Montenegro: Basics of Business Informatics, Internet Technologies, and Services, Basics of the Tourist Information System, Information Systems in the Hotel Industry
  • Music Academy, University of Montenegro: Music Technology I, Music Technology II, Sound Recording and Editing I
  • Faculty of Maritime Studies, University of Montenegro: Impulse and Digital Electronics, Multimedia Systems in Maritime
  • Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Montenegro: Basics of Electronics, Digital Electronics

Memberships

• Member of IEEE since 2014
• Reviewer in the following journals (SCI/SCIE list):

  • IEEE Access
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
  • IEEE Signal Processing Letters
  • IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
  • Electronics Letters
  • IET Wireless Sensor Systems
  • IET Signal Processing
  • IET Communications
  • IET Image Processing
  • IET Science, Measurement & Technology
  • Applied Soft Computing Elsevier Journal
  • Applied Surface Science
  • Applied Acoustics
  • AEU International Journal of Electronics and Communications
  • EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
  • Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers
  • Radioengineering Journal
  • Measurements

• Reviewer at the following conferences:

  • European Signal Processing Conference - EUSPICO
  • Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing – MECO
  • Information Technology Conference – IT Žabljak
  • International Conference on Digital Signal Processing – DSP
  • Microwave and Radio Electronics conference – MAREW
  • World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies

• June 2025 – present – Handling Editor (Editorial Board Member) of Signal Processing Journal

• Associate Editor in The Journal of Engineering

Languages

• Native language: 
  • Montenegrin (the same as Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian)
• Foreign languages: 
  • English - active knowledge
  • Russian - passive knowledge

Projects

1. "Strengthening up cybersecurity posture of Montenegrin higher education system" (CSupMNE), ERASMUS-EDU-2024-CBHE Erasmus+ project. Member of the project team. Project Ref. no: ERASMUS-EDU-2024-CBHE-STRAND-3 / ERASMUS2027/ ProjectID: 101179688.
2. "Digital entrepreneurial nest and industry 4.0 in Montenegro" (DigN€st), Erasmus+ Joint Projects - Strengthening of relations between HEIs and the wider economic and social environment. Member of the project team. Project leader Dr. Ivana Ognjanović, University of Donja Gorica.
3. „Digitalizacija u Crnoj Gori, Istorijat, stanje i perspective (Digitalization in Montenegro: History, Current State and Perspectives), research project, Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2018-2019, project leader Dr. Ljubiša Stanković
4. “Compressed sensing based data acquisition and fusion methods for food cold chain quality management,” Bilateral project Montenegro - China (2019-2020), Member of the Project team (Project Leader: Dr. Irena Orovic)
5. “Applications of the new Compressive Sensing based approaches with the focus on biomedicine, multimedia and communications,” Bilateral project Montenegro - China (2019-2020), Member of the Project team (Project Leader: Dr. Srdjan Stankovic)
6. “New ICT Compressive sensing based trends applied to: multimedia, biomedicine and communications,” Montenegrin Ministry of Science, project grant funded by the World Bank loan, 2014-2017 (Grant no. 01-1002), Member of the project team (Head of the project team - Dr. Srdjan Stanković)
7. “Compressive Sensing and time-frequency analysis with applications,” Bilateral project Montenegro - China (September 2014 - August 2016), Member of the project team (Head of the project team - Dr. Srdjan Stanković)
8. “Compressive Sensing methods with applications,” Bilateral project Montenegro - China (September 2014 - August 2016), Member of the project team (Head of the project team - Dr. Irena Orović)
9. “An Adriatic Network for Advancing Research Development and Innovation toward the creation of new Policies for Sustainable Competitiveness of SMEs,” ADRIATInn, The IPA Adriatic CBC Programme is co-financed by the Instrument of Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA), 2013-2016 (Head of the project team - Dr. Irena Orović)
10. “Advance techniques for automatized analysis and processing of non-stationary signals in modern applications: communications, radars, biomedicine and multimedia,” Member of the project team supported by Montenegrin Ministry of Science, 2012-2014 (Head of the project team - Dr. Srdjan Stanković)

Biography

Anđela Draganić was born in Nikšić. She received her Bachelor’s degree (BSc) in 2010 and her Specialist degree in 2011 from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Montenegro. She completed her studies with an average grade of 9.22/10.00. She defended her Master’s thesis titled “Decomposition and Reconstruction of Multicomponent Signals Using Time-Frequency Analysis and Compressive Sensing” with a grade of 10.00 in July 2013 at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Montenegro. She obtained her PhD degree by defending her doctoral dissertation titled “Analysis of Non-Stationary Multicomponent Signals with Focus on Compressive Sampling” in June 2018 at the same faculty (with an average grade of 10.00). The focus of Dr Anđela Draganić’s research includes time-frequency analysis and its applications in communications and audio signals, compressive sampling, hardware implementations of signal processing algorithms, biomedical signal processing, and digital data protection techniques.

During both high school and university studies, she was a recipient of scholarships from the Ministry of Education and Science for talented pupils and students, as well as a scholarship from the Municipality of Nikšić.

She has served as a reviewer for numerous international scientific journals, including: Signal Processing, IEEE Access, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Wireless Communication Letters, Multimedia Tools and Applications, IET Wireless Sensor Systems, Electronics Letters, IET Signal Processing, IET Communications, IET Image Processing, IET Science, Measurement & Technology, Applied Soft Computing, Applied Surface Science, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers, and Radioengineering. She has also reviewed papers for international conferences such as the European Signal Processing Conference – EUSIPCO, Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing – MECO, Microwave and Radio Electronics Conference – MAREW, Telecommunications Forum – TELFOR, and the International Conference on Digital Signal Processing – DSP.

She has been a member of the Organizing Committee of the World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST) since 2021. She was also a member of the Organizing Committee of the IEEE conference 31st IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications – ICT 2025.

Dr. Anđela Draganić has published around 60 scientific papers, including more than10 in leading international journals (SCI/SCIE-indexed), as well as a larger number of papers in other international and national journals and at international conferences.

In June 2025, she was appointed a member of the Editorial Board (Handling Editor) of the prestigious signal processing journal (Q1 category according to the SCImago ranking) – Signal Processing.

Since June 2024, she has served as Vice Dean for Finance at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Montenegro, and since June 2025, she has been a member of the Quality Management System Board and the Master Studies Monitoring Board at the University of Montenegro.

Since 2018, she has been a member of the Center of Young Scientists and Artists at the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts.

From 2011 to 2021, she was engaged as a teaching assistant at the University of Montenegro. She was elected to the position of Assistant Professor at the University of Montenegro in March 2021. Her teaching engagement at the University of Montenegro has included lectures and laboratory exercises in a wide range of courses across different study programs, including: Multimedia Systems, Digital Electronics, Pulse and Digital Electronics, Fundamentals of Electronics, Fundamentals of Computing, Mathematics in Computing, Information Systems, Fundamentals of Business Informatics, Internet Technologies and Services, and Web Programming.

BIOGRAFIJA

Anđela Draganić je rođena u Nikšiću. Diplomu završenih bečelor studija (BSc)dobila je 2010. a diplomu specijalističkih studija 2011. godine na Elektrotehničkom fakultetu Univerziteta Crne Gore. Studije je završila sa prosječnom ocjenom 9.22. Magistarsku tezu „Dekompozicija i rekonstrukcija multikomponentnih signala korišćenjem vremensko-frekvencijske analize i Compressive Sensing-a“ odbranila je sa ocjenom 10.00 u julu 2013. godine na Elektrotehničkom fakultetu Univerziteta Crne Gore. Stepen doktora nauka stekla je odbranom doktorske teze pod nazivom „Analiza nestacionarnih multikomponentnih signala sa osvrtom na kompresivno očitavanje“ u junu 2018. na istom fakultetu (prosječna ocjena 10.00). Fokus istraživačkog rada dr Anđele Draganić su vremensko-frekvencijska analiza i njene primjene u komunikacijama i audio signalima, kompresivno odabiranje, hardverske realizacije algoritama za obradu signala, obrada biomedicinskih signala i tehnike zaštite digitalnih podataka.

Tokom srednje škole i tokom studija bila je korisnik stipendije Ministarstva prosvjete i nauke za talentovane učenike i studente, kao i stipendije Opštine Nikšić.

Recenzent je u brojnim međunarodnim naučnim časopisima, među kojima su časopisi: Signal Processing, IEEE Access, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Signal Processing Letters Magazine, IEEE Wireless Communication Letters, Multimedia Tools and Applications, IET Wireless Sensor Systems, Electronics Letters, IET Signal Processing, IET Communications, IET Image Processing, IET Science, Measurement & Technology, Elsevier Applied Soft Computing, Applied Surface Science, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers i Radioengineering, kao i na međunarodnim konferencijama među kojuma su European Signal Processing Conference – EUSPICO, Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing – MECO, Microwave and Radio Electronics conference – MAREW, Telecommunications Forum TELFOR, i International Conference on Digital Signal Processing – DSP.

Član je organizacionog odbora konferencije World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST) od 2021. godine. Bila je član organizacionog odbora IEEE konferencije: 31^st IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications - ICT 2025.

Dr Anđela Draganić je objavila oko 60 naučnih radova od čega 10 u vodećim svjetskim časopisima (časopisi sa SCI/SCIE), kao i veći broj radova u drugim međunarodnim i nacionalnim časopisima i na međunarodnim konferencijama.

U junu 2025. godine je imenovana za člana uređivačkog odbora (Handling editor) prestižnog časopisa iz oblasti obrade signala (Q1 kategorija prema SCImago rangiranju) – Signal Processing časopis.

Od juna 2024. godine obavlja funkciju Prodekana za finansije na Elektrotehničkom fakultetu Univerziteta Crne Gore, a od juna 2025. godine je član Odbora za upravljanje sistemom kvaliteta i Odbora za monitoring master studija na Univerzitetu Crne Gore.

Od 2018. godine je član Centra mladih naučnika i umjetnika pri Crnogorskoj akademiji nauka i umjetnosti.

Od 2011. godine do 2021. godine bila je angažovana kao saradnik u nastavi na Univerzitetu Crne Gore. U zvanje docenta na Univerzitetu Crne Gore birana je u martu 2021. godine. Dosadašnji angažman na Univerzitetu Crne Gore je obuhvatao nastavu (predavanja i računske i/ili laboratorijske vježbe) iz većeg broja predmeta na različitim studijskim programima, među kojima su Multimedijalni sistemi, Digitalna elektronika, Impulsna i digitalna elektronika, Osnovi elektronike, Osnovi računarstva, Matematika u računarstvu, Informacioni sistemi, Osnovi poslovne informatike, Internet tehnologije i servisi, Web programiranje.