Appointments:  

2007 - present: Full Professor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, University "Sv. Kiril i Metodij", Skopje, Macedonia

2000 - present:  Research Scientist (at full professor rank), Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California San Diego, CA, USA

1995 - 2000:  Associate Professor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University "Sv. Kiril i Metodij", Skopje, Macedonia

1990 - 1995:  Assistant Professor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University "Sv. Kiril i Metodij", Skopje, Macedonia

1986 - 1990: Teaching and Research Assistant, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University "Sv. Kiril i Metodij", Skopje, Macedonia

1981 - 1985: Software Engineer, Skopje, Macedonia

Education:

• PhD in Physics (Nonlinear Science), University "Sv. Kiril i Metodij", Skopje, Macedonia
• Master of Science, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia
• BA in Electrical Engineering (5-year program), Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University "Sv. Kiril i Metodij", Skopje, Macedonia

Visiting Scientist (minimum 1 month) (partial list):

April - May 2006, Collegium Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

September 2004, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

June 2004, Collegium Budapest, Budapest, Hungary 

September 2003, Collegium Budapest, Budapest, Hungary 

June 1999 - February 2000, University of California San Diego, USA

August 1998 - June 1999, College of William and Mary, USA

February 1997, University of Goettingen, Germany

August 1996, University of California Berkeley, USA

July 1995, University of Goettingen, Germany

August 1994, University of Darmshtad, Germany

April 1992 - May 1993, University of California Berkeley, USA

Honors, Professional activities  (partial list):

Member of Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2003

Fellow of IEEE, 2006

Associate editor:            - IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, 2002 - 2004; 2006 - 2008 

- Journal of the Franklin Institute 2007 - present

Guest Editor:                - IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Special Issue on Applications of    Chaos in Modern Communication Systems, 2001

- IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals and Electronics, Communications and Computer Science, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007

Referee for the following journals: 

1. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science;
2. International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing;
3. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos;
4. International Journal of Circuit Theory and Application;
5. International Journal of Systems Science;
6. IEEE Communication Letters;
7. IEEE Signal Processing Letters;
8. IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control;
9. IEEE Transaction on Information Theory;
10. IEEE Transaction on Image Processing;
11. IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems, part I and part II
12. IEEE Transaction on Communication;
13. Journal of the Franklin Institute;
14. Nature (London);
15. Phisica D;
16. Physical Review E;
17. Physical Review Letters;
18. Physics Letters A.

Organizer of Several Conferences (Member of the Scientific Committee) and Special Sessions in Major Conferences

Reviewer for NSF, ONR, ARO and other European agencies

Current Projects (as PI):

• CMG Collaborative Research: Data Assimilation by Synchronization of Truth and Model (NSF) 2004 - 2007         
• Diagnosing vulnerability, emergent phenomena, and volatility in man-made networks (FP6 STREP EU) 2007 - 2010            
• Identification and monitoring of complex networks using adaptive observer (Honk Kong Research Grant Council) 2008 - 2010
• Discrete chaos and its applications to secure communications (Spanish Government) 2006 - 2009

Publications:

Over 100 publications in 20 different journals: 

1. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science;
2. Chaos, Solitons, and Fractals;
3. Electronics Letters;
4. Geophysical Research Letters;
5. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos;
6. International Journal of Circuit Theory and Application;
7. International Journal of Network Security;
8. IEEE Communication Letters;
9. IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems, part I: Fundamental theory and applications;
10. IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems, part II: Analog and digital signal processing;
11. IEEE Transaction on Information Theory;
12. IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals and Electronics, Communications and Computer Science;
13. Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics;
14. Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers;
15. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General Physics;
16. Journal of the Franklin Institute;
17. Physica D;
18. Physical Review E;
19. Physical Review Letters;
20. Physics Letters A.

Over 70 publications in Proceedings

According to Science Citation Index:  over 3000 citations  

Books:

1. V. In, L. Kocarev et al (Editors), Proceeding of Sixth Experimental Chaos Conference, Springer, New York, 2004
2. L. Kocarev and G. Vattay (Editors), "Complex Dynamics in Communication Networks", Springer, New York, 2005
3. L. Kocarev and R. Chen, "Chaos and cryptography: from theory to practical algorithms" in preparation, to be published by Springer (work in progress) 

Selected Recent Journal Publications (2006 - present):

1. J.M. Amigo, L. Kocarev, and J. Szczepanski, "Order patterns," Physics Letters A, Vol. 355, pp. 27 - 31, February 2006. 
2. A. Fekete, G. Vattay, and L. Kocarev, "Distribution of edge load in scale-free trees," Physical Review E, Vol. 73, 046102 (11 pages), April 2006.
3. L. Kocarev, F. Lehmann, G.M. Maggio, B. Scanavino, Z. Tasev, and A. Vardy, "Nonlinear Dynamics of Iterative Decoding Systems: Analysis and Applications," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 52(4), pp. 1366 - 1384, April 2006.
4. N. Masuda, G. Jakimoski, K. Aihara, and L. Kocarev, "Chaotic Block Ciphers: from theory to practical algorithms," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, part I, Vol. 53(6), pp. 1341 - 1352, June 2006. 
5. L. Kocarev,  J. Szczepanski, J. M. Amigo, and I. Tomovski,  "Discrete Chaos - I: Theory," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, part I, Vol. 53(6), pp. 1300 - 1309, June 2006. 
6. A. Fekete, G. Vattay, and L. Kocarev,  "Traffic dynamics in scale-free networks," ComPlexUs, Vol. 3(1-3), pp. 97 - 107, August 2006.
7. D. Yu, M. Righero, and L. Kocarev, "Estimating topology of networks," Physical Review Letters, Vol. 97, pp. 188701, November 2006 (also published in Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research).
8. J.M. Amigo, L. Kocarev, and I. Tomovski, "Discrete entropy," Physica D, Vol. 228, pp. 77 - 85, April 2007.
9. J.M. Amigo, L. Kocarev, and J. Szczepanski, "Theory and Practice of Chaotic Cryptography," Physics Letters A, Volume 366, Issue 3, pp. 211 - 216, June 2007.  
10. G. S. Duane, D. Yu, and L. Kocarev, "Identical synchronization, with translation invariance, implies parameter estimation," Physics Letters A, in press.
11. P. Checco, M. Biey, and L. Kocarev, "Synchronization in random networks with given expected degree sequences," Chaos, Solitons, and Fractals, in press, 2007.
12. D. Gligoroski, S. Markovski, and L. Kocarev, "Edon-R: An Infinite Family of Cryptographic Hash Functions," International Journal of Network Security, in press, 2007.
13. L. Pejov, M. La Rosa, and L. Kocarev, "Dynamics of the central phenylene ring torsional motion in phenylene ethynylene oligomers. A quantum - theoretical contribution to the study of conformational basis for single – molecule switching phenomena," Chemical Physics, in press, 2007.
14. T. Addabbo and L. Kocarev, "Periodic Dynamics in State Dependent Queuing Networks," Chaos, Solitons, and Fractals, in press, 2007.
15. Jose M. Amigo, L. Kocarev, J. Szczepanski, "Discrete Lyapunov exponent and resistance to differential cryptanalysis," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, part II, in press, 2007.

Selected Recent (reviewed) Conference Publications (2007):

1. P. Checco, M. Biey, M. Righero, and L. Kocarev, "Synchronization and Bifurcations in Networks of Coupled Hindmarsh-Rose Neurons," Proceeding of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), pp. 1541 - 1544, 2007. 
2. P. Checco, M. Biey, and L. Kocarev, "Synchronization in Complex Hybrid Networks," Proceeding of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), pp. 1669 - 1673, 2007.
3. W. K.S. Tang, M. Yu, and L. Kocarev, "Identification and monitoring of biological neural Network," Proceeding of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), pp.  2646 - 2649, 2007.
4. D. Gligoroski, S. Markovski, and L. Kocarev, "Error-Correcting Codes Based on Quasigroups," Proceeding of the 16th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, 2007.
5. S. Vitali, L. Kocarev, R. Rovatti and G. Setti, "A queue model for complex networks with adaptive traffic," NOLTA, 2007.

Research Interest:

Nonlinear circuits and systems; Bioengineering; Chaos theory and applied dynamical systems theory; Synchronization in physics and biology; Coding theory (iterative coding systems) and Cryptography; Networks: topology, evolution and dynamics on networks; Nano-science: molecular devices and multi-scale modeling, nano-networks. 

Conferences (in 2007):   

• Neuroscience today: neuronal functional diversity and collective behaviors

Firenze, 26 - 28 March 2007

• Networks: Topology, dynamics and risk

Belgrade, 3 - 5 May 2007

• Complex systems: from theory to applications

Skopje, 7 - 9 May 2007

• IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)

New Orleans, 27 - 30 May 2007

• International Symposium on Synchronization in Complex Networks

Leuven, July 2 - 4, 2007

• 16th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks

Honolulu, Hawaii, August 13 - 16, 2007,

• The 3rd International IEEE Scientific Conference on Physics and Control

Potsdam, September 3 - 7, 2007 

• International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications

Vancouver, September 16 - 19, 2007

• International Conference on Applications in Nonlinear Dynamics

Koloa (Kauai), Hawaii, September 24 - 27, 2007               

• European Conference on Complex Systems

Satellite Conference on "Synchronization and Emergent Coordination"

Dresden, October 1 - 5, 2007