Summary
Mladen Knezic is an Associate Professor and embedded systems researcher with a decade of hands-on C development across 8-bit microcontrollers to complex SoC platforms and nine years of formal academic experience in teaching and research. He specializes in heterogeneous embedded systems, industrial real-time Ethernet protocols (EtherCAT, Ethernet Powerlink, PROFINET) and Time-Sensitive Networking, combining FPGA/VHDL design with microprocessor/microcontroller system architecture. At the University of Banja Luka he has progressed from teaching labs to leading courses and research on TSN optimization, and has international research experience including OMNeT++ simulation work on fault-tolerance for distributed embedded systems. He also serves as Editor in Chief of an electronics journal, reflecting engagement with the broader research community beyond classroom and lab. Notably, his profile blends low-level firmware expertise with FPGA-based digital system design, making him adept at finding the meeting point between software and hardware.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical Engineering at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Banja Luka
English, Serbian, German