Ana Milas  received her BSc and MSc degree in electrical engineering and information technology from the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (UNIZG-FER) in 2016 and 2018, respectively. During her master program, she was awarded a Rector's Award for Individual Scientific Work with the project entitled "Coordinated multi-robot exploration based on Graph SLAM method and rapidly exploring random trees". Alongside her studies, she gained industrial working experience in student internships at Inetec d.o.o and at AVL-AST d.o.o. After graduation, she joined LARICS (Laboratory for Robotics and Intelligent Control Systems) as a research assistant at the Department of Control and Computer Engineering (ZARI) at FER. She has worked on several international and domestic scientific projects.

As a part of the ERL 2019 (European Robotics League), she worked on the development of an algorithm for simultaneous localization and mapping. She participated in the MBZIRC2020 (Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge), working on a task related to autonomous exploration od the environment and firefigting. She also participated in MBZIRC2023, where she lead the autonomous search team. In the HEKTOR (Heterogeneous autonomous robotic system in viticulture and mariculture), she developed the algorithm for autonomous exploration and mapping of the vineyard while in the VIRTUALUAV (Development of a system of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) controlled in virtual environments) she worked on autonomous exploration of warehouses, boxes and shelves detection and labeling in the map. 

In 2019, she did an internship at the University of Seville, Spain, where she collaborated on work related to mobile and aerial robot collaboration as a part of the AeRoTwin project.  In 2020, she attended the IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems in Prague, Czech Republic. In 2023, as a part of the program Outgoing mobility of assistants of the Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ), she participated in a research visit at CATEC (Advanced Center for Aerospace Technologies) on the project BEEYONDERS, where she developed an algorithm for autonomous exploration of the environment, construction site-like object detection and mapping. She completed her doctoral studies within the “Young researchers’ career development project--training of doctoral students” of the Croatian Science Foundation.

Her research interests are unmanned aerial vehicles, autonomous systems, autonomous 2D and 3D mapping and exploration and autonomous navigation with obstacle avoidance in 3D environments.  

She is an active member of IEEE Croatia section since her master's study. Currently, she is Chair of Croatia Young Professionals and IEEE Croatia Section Treasurer. She is an author or co-author of 4 papers published in peer-reviewed journals, 6 papers presented at international conferences and a book chapter.

Teaching Duties and Publications