Education

• 2012 PhD - Doctor of Technical Sciences (Dr. techn.)

Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences (TNF) Linz, Austria (PhD Thesis: “Model-on-Demand Algorithm for Fault Isolation in Complex Technical Systems”)

• 2011 Master of Business Administration (MBA)

University of Cincinnati, Carl H. Lindner College of Business, Cincinnati OH, USA (Concentrations: Management, Quantitative Analysis)

• 2010 - 2011 MBA program at the Carl H. Lindner College of Business, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH, USA
• 2001 Master of Science (MSc) in Electrical Engineering

University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Major: Telecommunications; Master’s degree Thesis: “Adaptive Inverse Control of the Digital Lift Valve - Electronic Control System Design”)

• 1999 - 2001 Postgraduate studies at the University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 1997 Master of Electrical Engineering (Dipl.-Ing.)

University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Majors: Automatic Control and Electronics; Diploma Thesis: “The Voltage Comparator with a Time Part on the base of a Microcontroller”)

• 1989 - 1997 Graduate studies at the University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 1985 - 1989 Technical High School (Mechanical engineering), Gorazde, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Awards

• The International Honor Society Beta Gamma Sigma, University of Cincinnati Chapter, Cincinnati OH, USA: lifetime membership as an acknowledgment of the outstanding academic accomplishment, May 2011
• The Gold Ducat of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Sarajevo Award (in Bosnian: “Dukat ETF-a Sarajevo”) for the exceptional academic accomplishment, awarded in May 2000

Working Experience

• 1994 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo Communication and data security specialist
• 1995 Embassy of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Zagreb, Republic of Croatia Communication and data security specialist
• 1996 - 05/1998 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo Department of communication and data security
• 06/1998 - 05/1999 ENERGOINVEST holding ELOP Ltd - IRCE Institute, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Junior researcher

• 06/1999 - 06/2000 Public Enterprise PTT BiH, Telecommunication Directorate, Data transfer and international telecommunication services, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 03/1998 - 06/2000 Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

University Assistant

• 07/2000 - 07/2006 Johannes Kepler Universitsy of Linz, Institute for Design and Control of Mechatronical Systems, Linz Austria

Research assistant; Teaching assistant; Junior & Senior researcher; Head of research group / Business Unit “Information Retrieval and Fault Detection”(LCM)

• since 08/2006 SIEMENS VAI Metals Technologies, Linz Austria

Project Manager (R&D)

Research Interests

• Control oriented design
• Fault diagnosis in complex technical systems

Selected Projects

• 2000 - 2001 Control oriented design of a hydraulic lift valve, Johanes Kepler University of Linz, Austria in cooperation with WITTUR AG Wiedenzhausen, Germany / Omar Lift S.R.L. Bagnatica (BG), Italy
• 2002 - 2004 "EU-AMPA" (Automatic Measurement Plausibility and Quality Assurance), Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria (Project supported by the European Union) 
• 2003-2004  “VAI Fault Diagnosis Usability Assessment”, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria, in cooperation with VOEST-ALPINE Industrieanlagenbau (VAI) Linz, Austria
• 2004 - 2005 “Feasibility Study Fault Detection and Isolation - Eurostrip” and “VAI Fault Diagnosis Usability Assessment”, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria, in cooperation with VOEST-ALPINE Industrieanlagenbau (VAI) Linz, Austria
• 2005 - 2006  “Data-based Modeling and Fault Diagnosis for Steel Industry”, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria, in cooperation with SIEMENS - VAI Metals Technologies GmbH & Co. Linz, Austria

• Serdio F., Lughofer E., Zavoianu C., Pichler K., Pichler M., Buchegger T., Efendic H. Improved Fault Detection employing Hybrid Memetic Fuzzy Modeling and Adaptive Filters
  in Applied Soft Computing, vol. 51, Elsevier, pp. 60-82, 2017

• Kirchsteiger H., Efendic H., Reiterer F., Del Re L. Alternative Frameworks for Personalized Insulin-Glucose Models
  Prediction Methods for Blood Glucose Concentration: Design, Use and Evaluation, series Lecture Notes in Bioengineering, Springer International Publishing Switzerland, Cham, pp. 1-29, 2016

• Moser D., Waschl H., Schmied R., Efendic H., Del Re L. Short Term Prediction of a Vehicle's Velocity Trajectory Using ITS
  in SAE Int. J. Passeng. Cars ? Electron. Electr. Syst., pp. 364-370, 2015
• Moser D., Waschl H., Schmied R., Efendic H., Del Re L. Short Term Prediction of a Vehicle's Velocity Trajectory Using ITS
  SAE World Congress, 2015
• Serdio F., Lughofer E., Pichler K., Pichler M., Buchegger T., Efendic H. Fuzzy fault isolation using gradient information and quality criteria from system identification models
  in Information Sciences, vol. 316, Elsevier, pp. 18-39, 2015

• Kirchsteiger H., Efendic H., Freckmann G., Del Re L. LMI-based Online Estimation of a Time-varying Time-delay in Continuous Glucose Measurement Devices
  CDC 2014: 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 6981-6986, 2014
• Efendic H., Kirchsteiger H., Freckmann G., Del Re L. Short-Term Prediction of Blood Glucose Concentration using Interval Probabilistic Models
  22nd Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, pp. 1494-1499, 2014
• Efendic H., Kirchsteiger H., Freckmann G., Del Re L. Short-Term Interval Prediction of Glucose with Probabilistic Models
  Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics, vol. 16, no. S1, pp. A81-A82, 2014
• Serdio F., Lughofer E., Pichler K., Buchegger T., Efendic H. Residual-Based Fault Detection using Soft Computing Techniques for Condition Monitoring at Rolling Mills
  in Information Sciences, vol. 259, pp. 304-320, 2014
• Serdio F., Lughofer E., Pichler K., Buchegger T., Pichler M., Efendic H. Fault Detection in Multi-Sensor Networks based on Multivariate Time-Series Models and Orthogonal Transformations
  in Information Fusion, vol. 20, pp. 272-291, 2014
• Serdio F., Lughofer E., Pichler K., Buchegger T., Pichler M., Efendic H. Gradient-based Fuzzy Fault Isolation in Residual-based Fault Detection Systems
  Proceedings of the WCCI 2014 Conference, series Proceedings of the WCCI 2014 Conference, Bejing, China, pp. 1428-1435, 2014
• Serdio F., Zavoianu C., Lughofer E., Pichler K., Buchegger T., Efendic H. Hybrid Genetic-Fuzzy Systems for Improved Performance in Residual-Based Fault Detection
  Proceedings of the 2014 Sixth World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC), series Proceedings of the 2014 Sixth World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC), Porto, Portugal, pp. 91-96, 2014
• Serdio F., Lughofer E., Pichler K., Buchegger T., Pichler M., Efendic H. Reducing False Positives for Residual-Based On-line Fault Detection by Means of Filters
  IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC 2014, pp. 2745-2750, 2014

• Serdio F., Lughofer E., Pichler K., Buchegger T., Pichler M., Efendic H. Multivariate Fault Detection in the Residual Space using VARMA and Orthogonal Transformations
  Annual Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society 2013, pp. 548-555, 2013
• Serdio F., Lughofer E., Pichler K., Buchegger T., Efendic H. Data-Driven Residual-Based Fault Detection for Condition Monitoring in Rolling Mills
  7th IFAC Conf. on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control, vol. 46, no. 9, IFAC, pp. 1530-1535, 2013

• Efendic H. Model-on-Demand Algorithm for Fault Isolation in Complex Technical Systems
  2012

• Schrems A., Efendic H., Pichler K. Selection of Physically Interpretable Data Driven Model Structures to Analyze Industrial Processes
  Proceedings of the 11th WSEAS International Conference on Automatic Control, Modelling and Simulation, 2009

• Del Re L., Efendic H., Veletovac S. Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Steuerung eines hydraulischen Aufzugs

• Efendic H., del Re L. Automatic Iterative Fault Diagnosis Approach for Complex Systems, WSEAS Transactions on Systems
  WSEAS Transactions on Systems, 2006
• Winkler S., Efendic H., del Re L., Affenzeller M., Wagner S. On-Line Modeling Based on Genetic Programming', Special Issue of the International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications
  IJISTA 2005, 2006
• Schrems A., Efendic H., del Re L. A Local Steady Approach for Fault Diagnosis of Continous Production Systems
  Proceedings of IMECE2006: 2006 ASME, 2006
• Winkler S., Efendic H., del Re L. Quality Pre-Assesment in Steel Industry Using Data Based Estimators
  S. Cierpisz, K. Miskiewicz, A. Heyduk (ed.), Proceedings of the IFAC Workshop MMM’2006 on Automation in Mining, Mineral and Metal Industry., 2006

• Efendic H., del Re L. Iterative Multilayer Fault Diagnosis Approach for Complex Systems
  4th WSEAS International Conference on Electronics, Control & Signal Processing, 2005
• Winkler S., Efendic H., del Re L., Affenzeller M., Wagner S. On-line modelling based on Genetic Programming
  ALaRT 2005, 2005
• Efendic H., Steinmaurer G., del Re L. Fehlerdiagnose - Datenbasierte Methoden zur Prozessüberwachung komplexer mechatronischer Systeme
  Internationales Forum Mechatronik IFM 2005, 2005
• Efendic H., del Re L., Frizberg G. Iterative Multi-Step Diagnosis Process for Engine Systems
  SAE world congress 2005, no. 2005-01-1055, 2005
• Affenzeller M., Efendic H., Wagner S., Winkler S., del Re L. On-Line Modeling Based on Genetic Programming
  Special Issue of the International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications, 2005

• Efendic H., del Re L. Design of a Measurement Extenson for Tracking Control of a Hydraulic Elevator
  in 9th Mechatronics Forum International Conference, pp. p. 753 - 764, 2004

• Efendic H., Klement E., Lughofer E., del Re L. Filtering of Dynamic Measurements in Intelligent Sensors for Fault Detection based on Data-Driven Models
  Proceedings IEEE CDC --- IEEE CDC Conference, Maui, Hawaii, pp. 463-468, 2003
• Efendic H., Schrempf A., del Re L. Data based fault isolation in complex measurement systems using models on demand
  in Safeprocess 2003, pp. 1149-1154, 2003
• Lughofer E., Efendic H., del Re L., Klement E. Filtering of Dynamic Measurements in Intelligent Sensors for Fault Detection based on Data-Driven Models
  42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2003

• del Re L., Efendic H. Trade-offs in control oriented mechtronical design
  in IFAC Conference on Mechatronic Systems, IFAC, pp. 890-895, 2002
• Efendic H., del Re L. A mechatronical approach to control oriented design of hydraulic drives
  in Mechatronics Forum International Conference, University of Twente; Netherlands, pp. 1230-1238, 2002