prof. dr. sc. Tihana Galinac Grbac

Function:	Full professor
E-mail:	E-mail
Personal web page:	http://tania.unipu.hr/~tgalinac/
Department:	Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Department of Engineering
Graduation year:	2000
mr.sc. graduation year:	2004
PhD graduation year:	2009
Employed since:	2018

Teaching

undergraduate

• Advanced Techniques of Object-oriented Programming (273523) - Lecturer in charge
• Computer Networks (253879) - Lecturer in charge
• Network systems management (273528) - Lecturer in charge
• Operating Systems (253878) - Lecturer in charge

graduate

• Engineering of complex systems (246043) - Lecturer in charge
• Network Analysis (255588) - Lecturer in charge
• Programming in Engineering (215779) - Lecturer in charge

Biography

Tihana Galinac Grbac is the full professor of computer science and the head of the Software Engineering and Information Processing Laboratory (SEIP Lab). The Software Engineering and Information Processing Laboratory (SEIP Lab) she established at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Rijeka, Croatia in 2012 and at the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula in 2018.

Previously, she was working at Ericsson Nikola Tesla (ETK) and was actively involved in Ericsson Core Network development. With their scholarship, she received the MSc and PhD degree from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia, in 2005 and 2009, respectively. The eight years of experience in R&D projects developing large scale complex software system that is evolutionary developed by globally distrubuted teams have strongly influenced and motivated her research and have served as a platform for experimentation, where she has continously implemented her research results and is gaining motivation for further research.

At the Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka she participated in the development and realization of the new Study Programme of Computer Science, served as the head of this programme, and the professional practice coordinator, established a number of courses for undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students including specialist education programs. She founded the Software Engineering and Information Processing Laboratory (SEIP Lab) in 2011. She was head of Computer Engineering Department at the same faculty and head of SEIP Lab.

Her main research interests are related to large scale and complex software systems that are evolutionary developed. In a broader sense, she is also interested in a variety of large scale complex systems including smart cities, telecommunication networks and others. In her investigation she is actively performing experimentation within industry context using real data and statistical, soft computing and optimisation methods in the search for better understanding of these systems. She is actively involved as the leader, management committee member and researcher in a number of research projects funded by European Union, Croatian government or industry partners. The results of her work are continously published in international scientific journals and conferences. She is a member of the IEEE and ACM. She is married to Neven and has two sons - Mak and Vid and girl Lana.

List of select projects

1.  RELYSOFT: Reliable and Safe Complex Software Systems: From Empirical Principles to Theoretical Models in View of Industrial Applications, Croatian Science Foundation, 2020-02-15 - 2024-02-14, PI: Tihana Galinac Grbac

2. Evolving software systems: anaysis and innovative approaches for smart management, Principal Investigator, Croatian Science Foundation (CSF) Installation Research Project, 2015–2018.

3. Promoting Sustainability as a Fundamental Driver in Software Development Training and Education, ERASMUS K203, 2020-2024, R: Tihana Galinac Grbac

4. Analysis and Innovative Approaches to Development, Management and Application of Complex Software Systems, Principal Investigator, University of Rijeka Research Grant Project, 2013 – 2018.

5. Laboratory and educational support in ICT technologies, Principal Investigator, research project in collaboration with industry funded by Ericsson Nikola Tesla, 2012 – 2018.

6.  An Empirical Comparison of Machine Learning Based Approaches/Techniques for Code Smell Detection, Croatian Principal Investigator, Bilateral Croatian-Slovenian project, 2018 – 2019.

7.  Central European Functional Programming (CEFP), Croatian PI, Erasmus+ project, 2018 – 2019.

8. Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services (ACROSS), Croatian Management Committee member, EU COST Action 1304, 2013 – 2017.

9.  Behavioural Types for Large-Scale Reliable Systems (BETTY), Croatian Management Committee member, EU COST Action 1201, 2012 – 2016.

10. e-Županija, Project team member, Primorsko-goranska regional government, 2015 – 2018.

Past employments

Ericsson Nikola Tesla, 2000 - 2008

Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka, 2008 - 2018