WELCOME TO SERBIA!

Kyle Scott, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Minister-Counselor, became the US Ambassador tp Serbia in 2016. Mr. Scott has extensive knowledge and background in European issues, built up through numerous assignments in Europe and various international organizations.

Previously, Mr. Scott served as a State Department Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund in Washington, D.C. (2014-2016), Consul General at the U.S. Consulate General Milan, Italy (2011-2014), and as Director of the Office of Russian Affairs in Department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs (2009-2011). He also served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Mission to the OSCE (2005-2009), Political Minister Counselor at the U.S. Mission to the European Union, Brussels, Belgium (2003-2005), as Political Counselor at U.S. Embassy Budapest, Hungary (1999-2003), and as Political Officer at U.S. Embassy Moscow, Russia (1996-1998). Prior to that, Mr. Scott was a National Security Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford, California (1994-1995). He also served as Political Officer at U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv, Israel (1991-1994), Economic Officer at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland (1987-1990), and Political and Economic Officer at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in New York (1984-1987). Other assignments since joining the Foreign Service in 1980, included serving as an International Economist in the Bureau of International Organizations, and as a Consular Officer in Zagreb, Croatia.

Mr. Scott earned a B.A. from Arizona State University in 1979. His foreign languages include Serbo-Croatian, Russian, Italian, Hungarian, Hebrew, German and French.

https://volgenau.gmu.edu/profile/view/11208

Slobodan N. Vukosavic graduated with honours at the Electrical Engineering Department, University of Belgrade. He got his diploma in Power engineering in 1985, and his diploma in Electronics in 1986. He defended the magisterial thesis entitled “Control algorithms for the voltage source inverters” in 1987. The doctoral dissertation “Adaptive digital control of induction motors” is defended 1989. with the same University.Since 1985, he worked as an R/D engineer with “Nikola Tesla” Institute in Belgrade, engaged with research, development and design of static power converters, electrical drives and digital control systems for industrial and military applications. Relevant projects were closely related with his magisterial thesis, PhD thesis, and his first papers. In 1988, he joined Electronic Speed Control Division of Emerson-Electric in St. Louis, where he developed and patented sensorless controller for brushless permanent magnet motors in HVAC applications. He also developed asymmetrical switched reluctance machines and original power converter topology for SRM supply. Invited by VickersElectric, manufacturer of hydraulic actuators, he joined their new R/D team, developing electric actuators for industrial robots. As the team leader, he developed motion control products for the car manufacturers and automotive industry in Europe.

He started teaching at the Electrical Engineering Department, University of Belgrade part-timein 1993. and full time from 1995. He was elected associate professor in 1998. and full professor in 2003, teaching Electrical machines, Digital control of electrical drives, Electrical propulsion, Motion control systems and Power converters in renewable energy sources. He served as the Head of the Power Engineering Department in two successive terms, contributing to improving the learning standards, developing new curricula and increasing the enrollments. In 2003, he was elected adjunct professor at the North Eastern University, Boston. In cooperation with Imperial College, London, he developed a new curriculum in Mechatronics. He was a guest lecturer at several Universities, where he also participated in supervising and examining PhD thesis. Along with his work at the University of Belgrade, he taught undergraduate and postgraduate power engineering courses at universities in Sarajevo, Banja Luka and Novi Sad, where he supervised PhD thesis of 5 assistants. He established two R/D laboratories: Laboratory for digital control of electrical drives and Laboratory for electrical vehicles. In cooperation with other universities and companies, the laboratories completed 13 international and 20 national R/D projects. He mentored 74 diploma thesis, 17 magisterial thesis, 12 master thesis and 12 PhD thesis.His research interests include electromechanical energy conversion, digital control, industrial robotics and power electronics. Most contributions in electrical machines, motion control and control of energy conversion are available as patents, journal papers and monographs. The results of his studies include theoretical background and practical solutions for designing electrical machines and power converters with reduced iron- and copper-weight and improved efficiency. Developed in early cooperation with Emerson-Electric-ESCD, asymmetrical topologies of switched reluctance machines, along with corresponding power converter topologies provided an extended torque-speed characteristic and enabled practical use of SRM drives. With the same group, he developed patented solutions for sensorless control of brushless permanent magnet motors. He conducted research and design of motion control algorithms, servo-amplifiers and servo motors for production automation and industrial robots. As the team leader in R/D departments of Vickers-Electric and Moog, he conducted design and deployment of motion control solutions and several original methods and devices. Developments include one of the first multi-axis servo-amplifiers with proprietary algorithms for the suppression of the mechanical resonance and torsional oscillations, the algorithms for trajectory optimization and the control laws that reduce the losses and increase the energy efficiency. In his monograph Digital Control of Electrical Drives (Springer), he develops digital motion controllers with well-damped, time-optimized response, and an improved disturbance suppression. Developed motion control products and devices are mainly used at European car
manufacturers, accounting for more than 80.000 servo axis. Large power, high reliability servoamplifiers developed in cooperation with Moog are widely used for running the flight simulators and high-pressure injection molding machines. Since 1995, he was involved in R/D and design of grid-side power converters, electrical generators and static power converters for renewable sources and micro-grids. A number of bilateral research projects related to multiphase electrical machines and multilevel inverters was completed with Liverpool John Moores University. He developed and designed first industrialized multi-phase matrix power converter for the needs of TAMUQ University of Qatar and LJMU. He completed
IRADK10 project for IR, the first demonstration of the IRAMS high voltage integrated circuit (HVIC). He also delivered design and consultancy services to companies and universities such as International Rectifier, Emerson-Ceset, Ferrari, Texas A&M and others.

http://utdallas.edu/~sriraam.natarajan/

Ben Marwick is an Associate Professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of Washington, USA, and a Senior Research Scientist at the Centre for Archaeology at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He works in Mainland Southeast Asia and Australia on questions about the first human occupation of the region, human-environment adaptations and technological change in stone artefacts during the Pleistocene and Holocene. Ben also works on developing priciples, methods, tools for reproducible research, with a focus on the R programming language. He is currently an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and a Senior Fellow at the UW eScience Institute.

http://faculty.washington.edu/bmarwick/