March 24, 2025
The University of Primorska celebrates its anniversary every year in the week around March 17, as it was entered in the court register on March 17, 2003. Thus, the UP Week is held every year, and within the framework of this week there is always a Solemn Academy, at which the UP recognizes all those who have contributed to the reputation, development and success of the university through their work or activities.
On the proposal of UP FAMNIT and UP IAM, the 2024 Srečko Kosovel Award for UP Students was awarded also to Dr. Niki Hrovatin, InnoRenew CoE researcher, for his PhD thesis Enabling decentralized privacy preserving data processing in sensor networks under supervision of Assoc. Prof. Jernej Vičič and co-supervision of Prof. Michael Mrissa.
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Dr. Niki Hrovatin has completed his PhD in Computer Science at UP FAMNIT. His dissertation presents five contributions to privacy preserving data processing in distributed networks. His PhD thesis is structured as a series of scientific papers, while all the presented methods have been implemented in sensor networks that are regularly used and deployed in Koper, across Slovenia and in other countries. The quality and impact of these five papers quantitatively exceed the minimum requirements for a dissertation. Dr. Hrovatin is the first author of all the papers, with the most prominent one published in an A’’ category journal and three others appearing in SCI-listed journals.
Dr. Niki Hrovatin is now continuing his successful research and pedagogical career at UP FAMNIT, UP IAM and InnoRenew CoE.
Congratulations Niki!
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