Mislav Grgić (born in 1973 in

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in technical sciences, and

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. He served as a Dean of FER from 2014 until 2018. He was the Head of the

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Community of FER from 2018 until 2022, with more than 20,000 members, and he was a Special Advisor to the

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Disciplines and International Projects from 2015 until 2022. He is a full member of the Academia Europaea - The Academy of Europe and a full member of the Croatian Academy of Engineering. He was a science advisor to the President of the Management Board of Končar - Electrical Industry, the largest electrical engineering company in Croatia.

Biography

Mislav Grgić was born in 1973 in Osijek, Croatia. He received B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER),

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, Croatia, in 1997, 1998, and 2000, respectively. He has been working at the Department of Communication and Space Technologies at FER since July 1997. He was a visiting researcher at the

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(1999/2000). He has been promoted to the position of

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since June 2010 and to the permanent position since January 2016. Mislav Grgić was an editor of four books and many other publications and is a member of many organizing committees of scientific conferences. He is highly cited scientists at the University of Zagreb, with more than 5,600 citations according to

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database (h-index = 33).

Academic activities

Mislav Grgić was a dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER), University of Zagreb, Croatia (2014-2018; the youngest ever elected dean), and a vice dean for research of FER (2010-2014). He was a head of the alumni community, with more than 20,000 members (2018-2022). He was a special advisor to the rector of the University of Zagreb for STEM disciplines and international projects (2015-2022). He was a science advisor to the president of the management board of "Končar - Electrical Industry", the largest electrical engineering company in Croatia, for two years (2019-2020). Prof. Grgić is currently a president of the prestigious Deans' Club association since November 2022. He was a deputy president of the "Energy Platform

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- Association for Open Innovations in Energy Sector" (2014-2018), and a president of the board of directors of institution "Innovation Center Nikola Tesla" (2015-2018). Mislav Grgić initiated, organized and conducted a project that resulted in creation of a new database: "SCface - Surveillance Cameras Face Database", pioneering database for testing

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in real-world conditions. The SCface database was downloaded by more than 400 research groups located in 60 countries since January 2010. SCface database has a

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importance: it is used not only in

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and

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fields but also in other fields like

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, and

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, what can be seen from the citations to this database from the corresponding research papers. SCface database is also used by military officials, police departments, and several renowned companies (e.g.

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, NEC, and Visa Research). Mislav Grgić initiated, organized, and developed a web-site "Face Recognition Homepage", academic and research portal that become a starting point on the web for every face recognition researcher. This web-site is an information pool for the face recognition community that provides an entry point for novices as well as a centralized information resource to concentrate face recognition and related scientific efforts. The importance of the web-site could be seen from the fact that it was described in the section "NetWatch" of the

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Scientific and professional organizations

Mislav Grgić has been elected as a Full Member of the Academia Europaea - The Academy of Europe since July 2019. Academia Europaea is based in London, and founded in 1988. In the Academia Europaea, among others, there are over 70 Nobel Prize winners. He has been accepted as a full member of the Croatian Academy of Engineering (HATZ) since 2012, where he was a collaborating member from 2004 to 2012. He served as a Chair of the

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Croatia Section (2013-2016), that has approx. 700 members. He also served as a member of the Committee for International Cooperation at HATZ (2009-2013). He was a member of the Working Group for the preparation of negotiations for the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the

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, responsible for the Chapter 10 of the ''

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'': "Information Society and Media" (2005-2008). He was an appointed member of the Committee on Transportation, Communications and Maritime Affairs of the

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