He is a retired full professor at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Skopje.
He graduated in 1978 at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology in Skopje. His graduation was in the area of Automatics, on the Technical Cybernetics group.
After the graduation, he was employed in the Company for steel pipes productions AD “11 Oktomvri” in Kumanovo, R. Macedonia. He was mainly working in the maintenance, automation and electronics section. For his eighteen-year industrial experience, he changed several positions, from engineer in the maintenance department, to the main engineer for technical and technological activities in the company.
Besides his usual working activities at the Company AD “11 Oktomvri”, he managed to go enrol and complete masters studies at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Skopje in 1987.
The research work for his PhD was done in Skopje, Kumanovo, and Wolverhampton, UK. In 1997, he successfully finished the PhD dissertation: “Non-conventional Control of Industrial Energy Processes in Large Heating Furnaces” at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Skopje. His diploma work, master thesis, and PhD dissertation were all completed under the supervision of prof. Georgi Dimirovski.
From October 1997, he was employed at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies in Skopje, on the position Teaching Assistant at the Institute of Automation and System Engineering. One year later, he was promoted to Head of Laboratory at the same Institute.
In May 2000 he was promoted to Assistant Professor, in 2005 he was promoted to Associate Professor, while in 2010 he became full professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies. From 2008 to 2016 he held the position of Dean at the same faculty.
During his relatively long academic and industrial career, he has been engaged in more than 120 scientific articles, published and presented on international and domestic conferences and journals. He is a co-author of chapters in four monographies and two books published internationally. He has also written and published two books: “Computer Process Control” and “Microelectronic and Nanoelectronics Applications”.
Six doctoral students and more than 20 master students have finished their studies under his mentorship, and he is currently the advisor of two doctoral students.
He has also been employed in number of applicative and scientific projects, as well as being an expert for evaluation of the projects in EU program Horizon 2020.
In the past he has been President of ETAI (Society of Electronics, Telecommunications, Automatics and Informatics), Vice President of the Macedonian Engineering Association (IMI), Chairman of the Council of KOAI (Macedonian Chamber of Authorized Architects and Engineers), and Vice President of IFAC TC-9.3 on Developing Countries (IFAC- International Association of Automatic Control).
In 1981, he was a member of the initiative board for the establishment of the ETAI society. He was a member of the management board of the Society from the beginning. He was the General Secretary of the Society, and on several occasions was also the Chairman of the Society. He actively participated in the organization of all ETAI conferences and was the main organizer in most of them.
