Rastislav Struharik
AI Specialist
Rastislav Struharik is an associate professor at the Department of Power, Electronics and Telecommunications, Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. He received his PhD in Electronics in 2009, in the area of hardware acceleration of machine learning algorithms. During his academic career he has published more than 35 papers in international journals and conferences, mainly focusing on the hardware acceleration of machine learning algorithms, such as Decision Trees, Support Vector Machines, Artificial Neural Networks, Convolutional Neural Networks, and Ensemble Classifiers, targeting both learning and inference algorithms. For the past three years he has also been working as the chief architect for the IDS own FPGA IP core technology for for hardware acceleration of Convolutional Neural Networks, intended for edge AI applications.