Maja Vuković is a computer scientist, doing research in

Artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...

Blockchain The blockchain is a distributed ledger with growing lists of Record (computer science), records (''blocks'') that are securely linked together via Cryptographic hash function, cryptographic hashes. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of th ...

and

Cloud Software Cloud computing is "a paradigm for enabling network access to a scalable and elastic pool of shareable physical or virtual resources with self-service provisioning and administration on-demand," according to ISO. Essential characteristics ...

among others. She has been appointed an

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in 2021 and in

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she was responsible for technical and research strategy for AI driven Application Modernization.

Education and career

She received her Bachelor of Science with a double major in Computer Science and Mathematics from the

University of Auckland The University of Auckland (; Māori: ''Waipapa Taumata Rau'') is a public research university based in Auckland, New Zealand. The institution was established in 1883 as a constituent college of the University of New Zealand. Initially loc ...

, New Zealand, a degree in Computer Science from the International University in Germany in 2000, and a PhD in Computer Science from the

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, wo ...

in 2006, for her work on context-aware service composition using

AI Planning Automated planning and scheduling, sometimes denoted as simply AI planning, is a branch of artificial intelligence that concerns the realization of strategy, strategies or action sequences, typically for execution by intelligent agents, autonomou ...

Research interests

Her research interests span different areas, including: AI for Application Modernization;

Cloud In meteorology, a cloud is an aerosol consisting of a visible mass of miniature liquid droplets, frozen crystals, or other particles, suspended in the atmosphere of a planetary body or similar space. Water or various other chemicals may ...

Transformation,

Infrastructure Infrastructure is the set of facilities and systems that serve a country, city, or other area, and encompasses the services and facilities necessary for its economy, households and firms to function. Infrastructure is composed of public and pri ...

Discovery,

Automation;

Machine Learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of Computational statistics, statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalise to unseen data, and thus perform Task ( ...

; Enterprise

Crowdsourcing Crowdsourcing involves a large group of dispersed participants contributing or producing goods or services—including ideas, votes, micro-tasks, and finances—for payment or as volunteers. Contemporary crowdsourcing often involves digit ...

; and Social Web for

Disaster Management Emergency management (also Disaster management) is a science and a system charged with creating the framework within which communities reduce vulnerability to hazards and cope with disasters. Emergency management, despite its name, does not actua ...

among others. Maja is a member of IBM Academy of Technology and an IBM Master Inventor, with over 180

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s granted, including the "Coffee Delivery Drone" patent. She is a Senior Member of

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and a Senior Editor at the ACM Ubiquity journal. She is a frequent podcaster and has been interviewed at major conferences. She is currently involved in an open source community for app modernization.

Awards and honors

Maja was awarded the Women in Services Computing Award by IEEE in 2018.

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