Eftim Zdravevski was born in 1984 in Radovis, Macedonia. He graduated on the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies at the Ss. “Cyril and Methodius” University in Skopje, Macedonia in 2008, where he also obtained his master thesis “Methods and algorithms for prediction of customer’s behavior” in the area of data mining. During his studies he was continuously rewarded for exceptional performance. Since 2008 he works at NI TEKNA – Intelligent technologies as developer-researcher where he designs and implements information systems. Since 2010 he works as a junior teaching and research assistant on the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, teaching Distributed computer systems, Logical and functional programming, Algorithms for data analysis, and Intelligent information systems. He is a MENSA member since 2004. During his research career he has published about a dozen scientific papers in international conferences. His active fields of research interests are: machine learning, data mining, expert systems, decision support systems, intelligent information systems, data bases and data warehouses, wireless sensor-actor networks etc.

Biljana Stojkoska was born in 1982 in Ohrid where she finished high school. She obtained Diploma degree from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University "Ss. Cyril & Methodius", Skopje, Macedonia in 2006. Her Diploma thesis was "Data aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks". In 2008 she received her M.Sc. degree from the same university with the thesis "Cluster-based distributed localization in Wireless Sensor Networks". She obtained her PhD degree in 2013 with the thesis "Data fusion in Wireless Sensor Networks". From 2006 to 2011 she was working as teaching and research assistant at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FEEIT). Since 2011 she is working at Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering (FCSE). She has been responsible for the following courses: Algorithms and Data Structures, Distributed Computer Systems, Expert Systems, Information Systems, Embedded Systems Design and Mobile Information Systems. Currently she works as an assistant professor at FCSE. Her research interests include wireless sensor networks, smart home, intelligent and distributed systems.

Katarina Trojacanec was born on 15.02.1986 in Kumanovo, Macedonia. She started her studies at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, University "Ss Cyrill and Methodius" in Skopje, Macedonia in 2004 at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. She graduated at the same faculty on 27.06.2008, with an average grade of 10,00. She defended her master thesis titled "Content based image retrieval system for magnetic resonance images" at the same Faculty in May 2010 under supervision of prof. d-r Suzana Loskovska.
During her education at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies in Skopje, she was continuously awarded for her successful studying. As the best student in the generation she was awarded with an "Engineering ring" by the Engineering Institution of Macedonia and with "Gold Coin" by the University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius", Macedonia.
She obtained her initial working experience at the Faculty for Computer Science, European University in Skopje in 2008. She started to work at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies in October 2008. Her research is focused on image processing, data mining, machine learning, and software engineering.

Igor Goshev was born in 2002 in Skopje. He completed his primary education at the “Kocho Racin” Primary School in Skopje, and his secondary education at the “Josip Broz Tito” High School in Skopje, consistently achieving excellent results.

In 2021, he enrolled in undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Computer Science & Engineering, majoring in Software engineering and information systems. During his studies, he spent two years working as a laboratory teaching assistant, leading lab sessions in Operating Systems, Structural Programming, Client-Side Internet Programming, Algorithms and Data Structures, and E-Learning. He completed his undergraduate studies in 2025 with a bachelor’s thesis titled “Design and Implementation of an Online Platform for Training and Organizing Informatics Competitions.”

In the same year, he enrolled in master’s studies at the Faculty of Computer Science & Engineering in the Software Engineering program, after which he was selected as a teaching demonstrator at the faculty.

His fields of scientific and research interest include software engineering, applied software, artificial intelligence, and data engineering.

Pece Georgiev was born in 2002 in Bitola. He completed his primary and secondary education in Bitola, where he actively participated in academic competitions across various subjects.

In 2021, he enrolled in undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering (FCSE) in Skopje, majoring in Computer Science. During his studies, he gained practical experience at Netcetera as a machine learning intern. He graduated in 2025 with an average grade of 9.92, completing a diploma thesis entitled “A Metaheuristic Approach for Solving an NP-Hard Optimization Problem in Exam Scheduling” under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Sonja Gievska.

In 2025, he enrolled in postgraduate studies at FCSE, specializing in Statistics and Data Analytics. During this period, he has been involved in teaching activities, including conducting classroom and laboratory sessions and preparing, structuring, and enhancing instructional materials for some of the courses: Linear Algebra and Applications, Probability and Statistics, Mathematics 3 and Math for Engineers.

His scientific research interests include artificial intelligence, statistics and data analytics, machine learning, optimization theory, game theory, algorithm design, and software engineering.

(October 2011) 

Andrea Kulakov finished the secondary school in 1990, at age of 16, as he managed twice to take two school years during one year (7^th and 8^th grade in primary school and then 3^rd and 4^th year in high school). After that, he enrolled at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Skopje, Macedonia at the Computer Science Department and in 1995 graduated with the highest average grade (9.91 out of 10.00) in the generation 1990-95.

In 1995 he started his postgraduate studies in Cognitive Science at the New Bulgarian University in Sofia, Bulgaria, in a small international group of students with classes in English. He finished these studies with an excellent average grade (5.71 out of 6.00). In July 1998 he defended his MSc thesis “Vygovorotsky – An Anticipative and Analogy-making Actor” with an excellent grade (5.5), in front of an international defense committee with 5 members (not including the mentor). In 1999 his MSc diploma was recognized as an equivalent diploma at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Skopje.

During his 9 months military service in 1999, he was also a demonstrator at the Military Academy for the course “Informatics”. After that he worked for six months in an international software company Mak-System, during which period he was for training in Paris, France for 6 weeks.

In the period April 2000 till September 2011, Andrea Kulakov was employed at the Institute of Computer Science and Engineering at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (later Faculty of Electrical Engineering and IT) in Skopje, first as an assistant, and then since 2007 as an Assistant Professor. He had taught several subjects in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Databases in the undergraduate and graduate studies.

In June 2005, he won a Graduate Student Research Grant for researches leading to PhD defense, from the Computational Intelligence Society of the largest society of engineers IEEE. (http://ieee-cis.org/edu/research/ little below, in the section for 2005).

In December 2006 he defended his PhD thesis titled “Data Management in Wireless Sensor Networks” at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and IT in  Skopje.

He was a researcher and principal investigator of several national and international projects, financed by the Ministry of Education and Science of Macedonia, from the EU TEMPUS program and from the EU FP6 program.

In 2008 he founded an advanced technology Company for Research and Development NI TEKNA – Intelligent Technologies (www.ni-tekna.com), dealing with development of advanced solutions where it is necessary to apply the techniques of Artificial Intelligence.

In March 2011 he was one of the founders of the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering in Skopje. In August 2011 he was elected as a Head of the Institute of Intelligent Systems at the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering.

He is responsible for several courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level from the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Robotics and Sensing. He has published more than 60 scientific papers at international conferences, in international journals, as well as a book chapter. His research is focused in the fields of Robotics, Business Intelligence, Image and Sound Processing and other subfields of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence. Besides his native Macedonian, he speaks fluently English, Serbian and Bulgarian, while he uses also German, French, Russian and Slovenian.

Emil Stankov was born on September 7, 1982, in Skopje. He finished his primary school education in PS "Gjorgjija Pulevski", and his high school education in NHS "Rade Jovchevski - Korchagin" in Skopje, with excellent success. In 2001 he began his studies in informatics, at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (FNSM), University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius", in Skopje. He finished the studies in 2007, by defending his diploma thesis titled "Ontology and a methodology for its development". In 2008 he began his master studies in informatics at FNSM, in the area of Artificial intelligent systems, and in 2011 he continued his education at the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering (FCSE), University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius", in Skopje. He finished the studies in 2013, by defending his master thesis titled "Estimating performance of program source codes using data mining methods", gaining a master's degree in informatics. Currently he is a PhD student at the FCSE.

Starting with the winter semester of 2004/2005, he worked as a teaching lab assistant at the Institute of Informatics (II), FNSM, for 4 subsequent years.  In December 2008 he was hired as a teaching/research assistant at II. Since then, he has been teaching the following courses: Informatics (basic course for students at the Faculty of Philosophy – Institute of Sociology and Institute of Social work and politics), Basics of Programming, Object and Visual Programming, Structural Programming, Concepts for Software Development, Advanced Software Development, Computer Practicum – programming language (course for students at the Institute of Mathematics, FNSM), Distributed Operating Systems, Numerical Methods, Mathematics 1, Mathematics 2, Mathematical Methods for Computer Science Students, Discrete Mathematics 2, Intelligent Systems Basics, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Microprocessors and Microcontrollers, and Modern Computer Systems. For educational purposes, he has prepared several lab tutorials.

He is a member of the Executive Board of the Computer Society of Macedonia and actively participates in the organization and realization of the national competitions in informatics for high school and primary school students. Also, he was a leader of the Macedonian team at several international competitions and Olympiads in informatics. He participated in the realization of the "Edubuntu" project of the Macedonian government, for modernization of the high school education. He participated at several domestic and international conferences with paper presentations, as well as in several workshops and schools.