The University of Zagreb, Croatia (1669) is the oldest and biggest university in South-Eastern Europe. Ever since its foundation, the University has been continually growing and developing and now consists of 29 faculties and three art academies. With its comprehensive programmes and over 50,000 full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students the University is the strongest research and teaching institution in the region. Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing at University of Zagreb is the leading Croatian academic and R&D institution in the field of electrical engineering and ICT. The Faculty is constituted of 12 departments. The present research and educational staff comprises more than 140 professors and 230 teaching and research assistants and around 3.000 students at the bachelor level, 1.300 students at the master level and 470 PhD students. The Faculty has developed respectable international cooperation with many institutions around the world and has been involved in numerous FP7 projects in the past. The members involved in MANGO project have deep expertise in video transcoding and its implementations, medical imaging applications and knowledge dissemination among different EU projects. The members involved in MANGO project are members of European Network of Excellence on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation (HiPEAC).

Prof. Mario Kovač is full professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia. He is also an executive, author and expert in the field of multimedia hardware and software design, business models for computer systems and technology transfer. In 1990 and 1991 he received a VLSI and Computer Architecture Scholarship at the University of South Florida, and he subsequently received the Fulbright Award in 1993. He holds several US patents including U.S. Patent 5,659,362 for a VLSI circuit structure for implementing the JPEG image compression standard, among others. In 2008, Croatian President awarded him with the Medal of Honor "Order of Danica Hrvatska with the image of Ruđer Bošković" for special merit in science. Professor Kovač served as Head of the Dept. of Control and Computer Engineering and Vice Dean for Business Development at the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is/was a member of the supervisory boards of Croatian agencies/companies CARNet, HIT - Croatian Institute of Technology and BICRO and is managing several international projects. He is senior member of the IEEE Computer Society, the Croatian Academy of Engineering and several other Societies. Currently he is mostly involved in business relations with industry partners in the area of computer systems and applications and business models in various industry segments such as health, banking and telecom. He was executive in several research and innovation investment organizations. He is also involved in UNIZG-FER’s efforts within H2020 FET project MANGO and here he was one of the initiators of IDEAS.

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