Dr. Fikret Basic

Member of the Low-power Embedded Networked Systems (LENS) research group. - Developed and tested wireless security protocols (e.g., NFC, BLE) for automotive and IoT applications with industry partners. - Led secure system design for embedded platforms within international R&D projects, incl. cooperation with NXP Semiconductors and the EU-funded OPEVA initiative. - Drove cross-functional collaboration between academic researchers and industrial engineers to transition proof-of-concept into ready prototypes.

Member of the HW/SW Codesign research group. - Developed secure communication architectures for Battery Management Systems (BMS) in collaboration with NXP, including NFC integration. - Coordinated system requirement analysis, architectural modeling, and active contribution to project proposals; successful acceptance of two EU-funded projects (TRISTAN, OPEVA). - Co-led a student development team (5+ members), responsible for task management, code reviews, and technical mentorship.

- Development and integration of firmware in embedded systems. - Protocol development with NFC and BLE appliances. - Development and verification of simulations using the modern HW/SW codesign methodologies in the automotive industry in cooperation with Bosch.

- Research and work in field of machine learning. - Been part of the team in several projects. - Work ranged from NLP problems, dataset investigation and statistic analysis, time-series and relational database analysis, machine learning model applications, etc.

- Worked at the Institute of Technical Informatics under the "HW/SW Codesign" working group. - Took part in the EU "IoSense" project and the FFG "Smart GigaWood". - Work focus on security, error correction, energy efficiency, IoT solutions, and data handling.

- Doctoral School: Information and Communications Engineering - Doctoral Thesis with the title "Enabling Secure and Wireless Battery Management Systems" - Published research papers at highly-regarded international and peer-reviewed conferences - Close research with industry (NXP Semiconductors) and projects: FFG SEAMAL BMS, KDT EU OPEVA

- Grade: 1.14 (min. [5 - 1] max.) - Two years of education (120 ECTS points). - Took on courses focusing on the optimization, security, pervasive computing, modeling and simulation, and information systems. - Master's thesis was done in the field of pervasive computing titled: "SimPar - A Concurrent Simulation System for Evaluation of Power-Aware Smart Sensors". - Finished with Honours.

- Grade: 9.86 (min. [5 - 10] max.) - Four years bachelor education (240 ECTS). - Study program is set on aspects of electrical engineering, specializing in informatics. - Took part in courses focusing on embedded systems, artificial intelligence, automation control, system programming, web programming. - Received "The Best Student of the Generation" Award.