Marko Križmančić, M.Sc. is an assistant and a researcher at the Laboratory for Robotics and Intelligent Control Systems (LARICS) at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (UNIZG-FER). 

He received his master’s degree in electrical engineering and information technology from UNIZG-FER in 2019. During his studies, he received two Rector’s Awards for community service work in the academic community (2018) and for individual scientific work (2019) on the topic of the control of a swarm of spherical robots. Aside from completing his academic assignments, he has also competed for the University of Zagreb in rowing competitions on an international level. Marko joined LARICS in 2019 where he is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree on optimizing communication topology in multi-agent systems using consensus protocol and graph neural networks under the supervision of Prof. Stjepan Bogdan.

He participated in the Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC 2020), working on task allocation and scheduling in a heterogeneous multi-robot team for autonomous wall construction. In MBZIRC 2023, where the UNIZG-FER team won first place, he was responsible for long-range intra-robot communication, video streaming, and mission coordination. In the EU Horizon project WatchPlant, he led the development of an embedded computer system for innovative plant-based environmental monitoring. In 2020, he attended the IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems in Prague, Czech Republic, where he won an award for the best solution to the practical assignment. During his time in LARICS, Marko has developed software solutions for several multi-robot systems that have been successfully applied in simulation and real-world scenarios including factory automation, swarming, and decentralized decision-making.

Besides robotics and multi-agent systems, Marko’s research interests include graph theory, machine learning on graphs, and distributed systems. He has authored or co-authored three peer-reviewed journal papers and five papers presented at international conferences.

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