Current positions

• Habilitated Assistant Professor in Distributed Systems with focus on Edge Computing and AI at Klagenfurt University, Austria

Previous positions

• Senior researcher and lecturer at University of Innsbruck, Austria, 2016-2018
• Assistant Professor at University of Information Science and Technology, Macedonia, 2009 - 2018

Visiting positions

• University of Utrecht, The Netherlands (12.2022-03.2023)
• University of Michigan, USA (09-10.2015)
• University of Bologna, Itally (10-11.2014)
• University of Granada, Spain (01-03.2014) 

Research Areas

• Edge and Fog computing
• Cloud computing
• Multi-objective optimisations
• High-performance computing

Projects

• 6GContinuum: AI Services on the Computing Conitnuum over Next-Generation 6G Networks, Oesterreichische Austauschdienst-Gesellschaft, 2024-2025, Coordinator
• KärtnerFog: Adaptive Fog Infrastructure over 5G Networks, FFG, 2022-2025, Scientific Coordinator
• DataCloud: Processing of Big Data Pipelines on the Computing Continuum, H2020, 2021  - 2023,  WP5 Leader
• ASPIDE: Exascale programIng models for extreme data processing, H2020, 2018  - 2021,  Scientific coordinator and WP3 Leader
• AtomicFog - An intelligent resource management in Fog, MK 09/2018, Oesterreichische Austauschdienst-Gesellschaft, 2018-2020, Coordinator
• ENTICE: dEcentralized repositories for traNsparent and efficienT vIrtual maChine opErations, H2020-ICT-2014-1, 2015  - 2018, WP4 Leader
• Energiebewusste Föderierte Cloud für Anwendungen aus Industrie und Forschung,FFG 2015-2018, Member
• HPMoon MO TIN2012, Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad, Member
• Supercomputing Applications - DCVP 02-1,Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science, Member
• NESUS 1305 COST ACTION  - Management Committee Member
• CHRONOS 1408 COST ACTION - Management Committee Member

Teaching

Klagenfurt University

• 2018 - current
• Computer Organisation
• Distributed Computing Infrastructures
• Internet of Things and Cloud Computing
• Current Topics in Multimedia Communication: Server, Cluster, and Cloud Computing
• Verteilte Systeme
• Introduction in Informatics
• Advanced Programming in C/C++

University of Innsbruck

• 2016 - 2018
• Advanced Parallel and Distributed Systems
• Parallel Systems

University of Information Science and Technology

• 2009-2018
• Computer Architectures
• Network Architectures
• High Performance Computing
• Parallel Data Processing
• Information Technologies
• Client/Server Systems
• Computing Systems configurations

Selected Publications 

• Dragi Kimovski, Nishant Saurabh, Matthijs Jansen, Atakan Aral, Auday Al-Dulaimy, André B Bondi, Antonino Galletta, Alessandro V Papadopoulos, Alexandru Iosup, “ Beyond von neumann in the computing continuum: Architectures, applications, and future directions ”, IEEE Internet Computing, 2023
• Dragi Kimovski, Sasko Ristov, Radu Prodan, “Decentralized Machine Learning for Intelligent Health Care Systems on the Computing Continuum”, IEEE Computer, 2022
• Dragi Kimovski, Roland Mathá, Josef Hammer, Narges Mehran, Hermann Hellwagner, Radu Prodan, “Cloud, Fog or Edge: Where to Compute?”, IEEE Internet Computing, 2021
• Dragi Kimovski, Narges Mehran, Christopher Emanuel Kerth, Radu Prodan, “Mobility-aware iot applications placement in the cloud edge continuum”, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2021
• Vincenzo de Maio, Dragi Kimovski, "Multi-Objective Scheduling of Extreme Data Scientific Workflows in Fog", Future Generation Computing Systems, January 2020
• Narges Mehran, Dragi Kimovski, Radu Prodan "MAPO: A Multi-Objective Model for IoT ApplicationPlacement in a Fog Environment", 9th International Conference on the Internet of Things, IoT 2019, Bilbao, Spain
• Dragi Kimovski, Humaira Ijaz, Nishant Saurabh and Radu Prodan, "An Adaptive Nature-inspired Fog Architecture", 2nd IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing (ICFEC 2018), WashingtonDC, USA
• Dragi Kimovski, Attila Marosi, Sandi Gec, Nishant Saurabh, Atilla Kertezs, Gabor Kecskemeti, Vlado Stankovski, Radu Prodan “Distributed Environment for Efficient Virtual Machine Image Management”, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2018
• Dragi Kimovski, Attila Marosi, Sandi Gec, Nishant Saurabh, Atilla Kertezs, Gabor Kecskemeti, Vlado Stankovski, Radu Prodan “Distributed Environment for Efficient Virtual Machine Image Management”, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2018
• Nishant Saurabh, Dragi Kimovski, Francesco Gaetano and Radu Prodan, "A Two-Stage Multi-Objective Optimization of Erasure Coding in Overlay Networks", CCGrid 2017, Madrid, Spain 2017
• Dragi Kimovski, Nishant Saurabh, Vlado Stankovski, Radu Prodan, “Multi-Objective Middleware for Distributed VMI Repositories in Federated Cloud Environment”, Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience, No.4/Vol.17, 2016
• Dragi Kimovski, Nishant Saurabh, Sandi Gec, Vlado Stankovski, Radu Prodan, “Multi-objective Optimization Framework for VMI distribution in Federated Cloud Repositories”, EUROPAR 2016 LSVDE Workshop, Grenoble, France, August 2016
• Dragi Kimovski, Julio Ortega, Andres Ortiz, Raul Banos, “Leveraging cooperation for parallel multi-objective feature selection in high-dimensional EEG data”, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience No.18/Vol.27, 2015 – Impact Factor = 0.997
• Dragi Kimovski, Julio Ortega, Andres Ortiz, Raul Banos, “Parallel alternatives for evolutionary multi-objective optimization in unsupervised feature selection”, Elsevier Expert Systems with Applications No.9/Vol.42, 2015 – Impact Factor = 1.965
• Plamenka Borovska, Dragi Kimovski, Atanas Hristov, “Modular Router Architecture For High-Performance Interconnection Networks”, Technical Gazette Journal No.5/Vol. 22 – Impact Factor = 0.615
• Giuseppe Galletti, Alexandre Matov, Himisha Beltran, Jacqueline Fontugne, Juan Miguel Mosquera, Cynthia Cheung, Theresa Y. MacDonald, Matthew Sung, Sandra O’Toole, James G. Kench, Sung Suk Chae, Dragi Kimovski, Scott T. Tagawa, David M. Nanus, Mark A. Rubin, Lisa G. Horvath, Paraskevi Giannakakou and David S. Rickman, “ERG induces taxane resistance in castration-resistant prostate cancer”, Nature Communications 5, 2014, - Impact Factor = 11.329
• Plamenka Borovska, Dragi Kimovski “Adaptive flow control in high-performance interconnection networks”, Springer Journal of Supercomputing, No.1/Vol.68, 2014, Impact Factor = 0.86

(full list of publications and cv)

Technical Products 

• I acted as the co-creator and main architect of the Carinthian Computing Continuum

Personal Blog 

• If you want to learn more about the Computing Continuum, the Edge and how they support AI, read my personal blog on: The Edge AI World