Veljko Pejovic
I am an assistant professor and vice-dean for international affairs at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science (FRI), University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. My research covers mobile computing, wireless networks and information and communicaton technologies for development. Lately I have been focused on mobile sensing, anticipatory mobile computing, and the analysis of mobile data traces.
Contact:
- email: Veljko.Pejovic [at] fri.uni-lj.si
- post: Room 3.15 Faculty of Computing and Information Science University of Ljubljana, Vecna pot 113, Ljubljana, Slovenia
I am actively recruiting motivated PhD students - deadline for applications June 2nd, 2017! I have a number of active and potential projects on mobile sensing, mobile data analysis, and data for development, and I am looking for people to work with on these. The University of Ljubljana, Slovenia is one of the top research universities in the region, offers a range of teaching and research fellowships and is located in one of the most beautiful parts of Europe. Please email me (Veljko.Pejovic [at] fri.uni-lj.si) with your up-to-date CV if you want to chat about doctoral study topics. More info about the application process.
Academic history:
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Birmingham, UK, 2012-2014
- PhD Computer Science, University of California Santa Barbara, USA, 2012
- BS Computer Science and Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia, 2006
News
- December 2016: I am organising a research talk series FRI Piškot at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana. If you are interested in receiving email announcements about the talks, please subscribe to our mailing list by sending a blank email to fri-research-talks+subscribe@googlegroups.com
- July 2016: Paper TaskyApp: Inferring Task Engagement via Smartphone Sensing accepted to Ubittention workshop with ACM Ubicomp'16! Congratulations Gasper Urh!
- June 2016: RICERCANDO - a project on mining mobile broadband network data in collaboration with Prof. Fabio Ricciato and Prof Blaz Zupan's group is starting this month.
Recent publications
- Results from a trial of HealthyMind mobile behavioural change interventions with respect to the effects of timing and frequency of push notifications are now published in a PLoS ONE article.
- Our survey of mobile-based experience sampling method (Mobile-Based Experience Sampling for Behaviour Research, Pejovic et al.) is now published as a chapter in Emotions and Personality in Personalized Services (eds. Tkalcic et al.), Springer 2016.
- What determines a user's reaction to a smartphone notification: alert modality, message content, sender-recipient relationship, a user's personality? Read about it in our ACM CHI'16 paper: A. Mehrotra, V. Pejovic, J. Vermeulen, R. Hendley and M. Musolesi My Phone and Me: Understanding User’s Receptivity to Mobile Notifications ACM CHI'16, May 2016.