Mladen Kovacevic was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1984. He obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering (communications and signal processing) from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia, where he is currently an Associate Professor. From October 2015 to May 2018 he worked as a Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore (NUS), and from March to August 2023 as a Senior Researcher at the Eurecom institute in Sophia Antipolis, France. His research interests include information theory, coding theory, and discrete mathematics. He is an IEEE Senior Member and a member of the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
M. Kovačević, I. Stanojević, V. Šenk, "On the Entropy of Couplings," Information and Computation, vol. 242, pp. 369-382, June 2015.
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Stanojević I., Kovačević M., Šenk V.: Application of Maxeler DataFlow Supercomputing to Spherical Code Design, in: Exploring the DataFlow Supercomputing Paradigm, eds: V. Milutinović, M. Kotlar, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2019, str. 133-168, ISBN 978-3-030-13803-5
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Kovačević M., Popovski P.: Zero-Error Capacity of a Class of Timing Channels, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2014, Vol. 60, No 11, pp. 6796-6800, ISSN 0018-9448
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Kovačević M.: Vector Multispaces and Multispace Codes, Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2025, Vol. 486, No. 129041, ISSN 0096-3003
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Sakai Y., Y. F. Tan V., Kovačević M.: Second- and Third-Order Asymptotics of the Continuous-Time Poisson Channel, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2020, Vol. 66, No 8, pp. 4742-4760, ISSN 0018-9448
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Kovačević M.: Zero-Error Capacity of Duplication Channels, IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2019, Vol. 67, No 10, pp. 6735-6742, ISSN 0090-6778
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Kovačević M.: Runlength-Limited Sequences and Shift-Correcting Codes: Asymptotic Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2019, Vol. 65, No 8, pp. 4804-4814, ISSN 0018-9448
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Kovačević M., Wang C., Y. F. Tan V.: Fundamental Limits of Communication Over State-Dependent Channels With Feedback, IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2019, Vol. 67, No 5, pp. 3182-3191, ISSN 0090-6778
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Kovačević M., Y. F. Tan V.: Codes in the Space of Multisets---Coding for Permutation Channels with Impairments, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2018, Vol. 64, No 7, pp. 5156-5169, ISSN 0018-9448
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Kovačević M., Stojaković M., Y. F. Tan V.: Zero-Error Capacity of P-ary Shift Channels and FIFO Queues, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2017, Vol. 63, No 12, pp. 7698-7707, ISSN 0018-9448
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Kovačević M.: A Note on Parallel Asynchronous Channels with Arbitrary Skews, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2017, Vol. 63, No 11, pp. 7320-7321, ISSN 0018-9448
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Kovačević M., Vukobratović D.: Asymptotic Behavior and Typicality Properties of Runlength-Limited Sequences, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2022, Vol. 68, No. 3, pp. 1638-1650, ISSN 0018-9448
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Kovačević M., Y. F. Tan V.: Asymptotically Optimal Codes Correcting Fixed-Length Duplication Errors in DNA Storage Systems, IEEE Communications Letters, 2018, Vol. 22, No 11, pp. 2194-2197, ISSN 1089-7798
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Kovačević M., Y. F. Tan V.: Improved Bounds on Sidon Sets via Lattice Packings of Simplices, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 2017, Vol. 31, No 3, pp. 2269-2278, ISSN 0895-4801
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Kovačević M.: On Error Detection in Asymmetric Channels, IEEE Communications Letters, 2017, Vol. 21, No 9, pp. 1933-1936, ISSN 1089-7798
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Kovačević M., Stanojević I., Šenk V.: On the Entropy of Couplings, Information and Computation, 2015, Vol. 242, pp. 369-382, ISSN 0890-5401
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Kovačević M., Vukobratović D.: Perfect Codes in the Discrete Simplex, Designs Codes and Cryptography, 2015, Vol. 75, No 1, pp. 81-95, ISSN 0925-1022
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Kovačević M., Vukobratović D.: Subset Codes for Packet Networks, IEEE Communications Letters, 2013, Vol. 27, No 4, pp. 729-732, ISSN 1089-7798
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Hou X., Breier J., Kovačević M.: Another Look at Side-Channel Resistant Encoding Schemes, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, 2024, Vol. 32, No. 7, ISSN 1063-8210
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Kovačević M.: On the Maximum Number of Non-Confusable Strings Evolving Under Short Tandem Duplications, Problems of Information Transmission, 2022, Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 111-121, ISSN 0032-9460
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Kovačević M.: Lattice Packings of Cross-polytopes from Reed–Solomon Codes and Sidon Sets, Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 2022, Vol. 54, No. 6, pp. 2372-2378, ISSN 0024-6093
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Kovačević M., Pinelis I., Kountouris M.: An Information-Theoretic Analog of the Twin Paradox, Europhysics Letters / EPL, 2024, Vol. 146, No. 4, ISSN 0295-5075
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Kovačević M.: Abelian Difference Sets as Lattice Coverings and Lattice Tilings, Bulletin of Australian Mathematical Society, 2022, Vol. 106, No. 2, pp. 177–184, ISSN 0004-9727
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Kovačević M.: On the Maximum Entropy of a Sum of Independent Discrete Random Variables, Theory of Probability and Its Applications, 2021, Vol. 66, No. 3, pp. 482-487, ISSN 0040-585X
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Kovačević M.: Signaling to Relativistic Observers: An Einstein–Shannon–Riemann Encounter, Problems of Information Transmission, 2020, Vol. 56, No 4, pp. 303-309, ISSN 0032-9460
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Kovačević M., Stanojević I., Šenk V.: Information-Geometric Equivalence of Transportation Polytopes, Problems of Information Transmission, 2015, Vol. 51, No 2, pp. 103-109, ISSN 0032-9460
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Kovačević M., Stanojević I., Šenk V.: Some Properties of Rényi Entropy over Countably Infinite Alphabets, Problems of Information Transmission, 2013, Vol. 49, No 2, pp. 99-110, ISSN 0032-9460
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Kovačević M., Šenk V.: On Possible Dependence Structures of a Set of Random Variables, Acta Mathematica Hungarica, 2012, Vol. 135, No 3, pp. 286-296, ISSN 0236-5294
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Kovačević M.: Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2023, ISSN 0018-9448
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Kovačević M.: Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2024, ISSN 0018-9448
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Kovačević M.: Packings in Z^n and Their Applications in Coding Theory, 1. International Seminar on Algebra and Coding Theory (INSACT), Changanassery, 8-10 Februar, 2017
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Kovačević M.: Timing Channels and Shift-Correcting Codes, 1. Network Coding and Designs, Dubrovnik, 4-8 April, 2016
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Kovačević M., Vukobratović D.: Asymptotics of Constant-Weight Constrained Sequences with Applications, 26. IEEE Information Theory Workshop ITW, Kanazawa, 17-21 October, 2021
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Kovačević M., Sakai Y., Y. F. Tan V.: Second-Order Asymptotics of the Continuous-Time Poisson Channel, 24. IEEE Information Theory Workshop ITW, Vizbi: IEEE, 25-28 Avgust, 2019
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Kovačević M.: Bounds on Codes for the Bit-Shift Channel with (d,k)-Constrained Inputs, 52. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory ISIT, Pariz: IEEE, 7-12 Jul, 2019, pp. 1587-1591, ISBN 978-1-5386-9291-2
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Kovačević M., Brdar S., Crnojević V.: Some Enumeration Problems in the Duplication-Loss Model of Genome Rearrangement, 52. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory ISIT, Pariz: IEEE, 7-12 Jul, 2019, pp. 927-931, ISBN 978-1-5386-9291-2
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Kovačević M., Wang C., Y. F. Tan V.: Error-Free Communication Over State-Dependent Channels with Variable-Length Feedback, 51. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory ISIT, Vejl: IEEE, 17-22 Jun, 2018, pp. 286-290, ISBN 978-1-5386-4780-6
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Kovačević M., Y. F. Tan V.: Coding for the Permutation Channel with Insertions, Deletions, Substitutions, and Erasures, 50. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory ISIT, Aachen: IEEE, 25-30 Jun, 2017, pp. 1933-1937, ISBN 978-1-5090-4096-4
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Kovačević M., Stanojević I., Šenk V.: On the Hardness of Entropy Minimization and Related Problems, 17. IEEE Information Theory Workshop ITW, Lausanne: IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.), 3-7 Septembar, 2012, pp. 512-516, ISBN 978-1-4673-0223-4
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Kovačević M., Vukobratović D.: Optimal Error-Detecting Codes for General Asymmetric Channels via Sperner Theory, 27. IEEE Information Theory Workshop ITW, Mumbai: IEEE, 6-9 November, 2022, pp. 636-641
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Goyal K., Dao D., Kiah H., Kovačević M.: Evaluation of the Gilbert-Varshamov Bound Using Multivariate Analytic Combinatorics, 56. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory ISIT, Taipei, 25-30 June, 2023, pp. 2458-2463
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Kovačević M., Y. F. Tan V.: Sidon Sets and Their Applications in Coding Theory, 12. Information Theory and Applications Workshop - ITA, San Diego, 11-16 Februar, 2018
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Kovačević M., Wang C., Y. F. Tan V.: Error-Free Communication Over State-Dependent Channels with Feedback, 12. Information Theory and Applications Workshop - ITA, San Diego, 11-16 Februar, 2018
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Kovačević M., Y. F. Tan V.: Sidon Sets in Abelian Groups and Lattice Packings of Simplices, 2. Novi Sad Workshop on Foundations of Computer Science - NSFOCS, Novi Sad, 17-21 Jul, 2017
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Kovačević M., Vukobratović D.: On Perfect Codes in An Lattices, 1. Algebra, Codes and Networks, Bordeaux, 16-20 Jun, 2014
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Kovačević M., Vukobratović D.: Error-Correcting Codes in Spaces of Multisets, 1. Workshop in Combinatorics, Segedin, 7-9 Mart, 2014
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Kovačević M., Vukobratović D.: Coding for the Permutation Channel, 1. Conference on Random Network Codes and Designs over GF(q), Ghent, 18-20 Septembar, 2013
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Kovačević M.: Error-Correcting Codes in Spaces of Sets and Multisets and Their Applications in Permutation Channels, Novi Sad, Fakultet tehničkih nauka, Novi Sad, 2014