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Dražen Šumić is the new director of the Microsoft Development Center in Serbia.
As the director of the Microsoft Development Center in Serbia (MDCS), Dražen Šumić, with the status of Microsoft Partner, will be responsible for the further strategic development of the center in Belgrade, which has long established its reputation within the global company and is considered one of the most important development centers in Europe. MDCS creates the most innovative services of the global company, used by millions of people worldwide, such as cloud services and the development of generative artificial intelligence.
"Thanks to the work we have all put in together, MDCS is significantly different from what it was in 2011 when I joined the team. We now have over 600 engineers, and our center is responsible for some of the key Microsoft services. I would like to thank my predecessor, Dragan Tomić, for his successful leadership so far, from whom I have personally learned a lot. MDCS is a development center with a complete software product development process, as well as working with users to adopt them. Our core strength has not changed, and I believe it never will: unity and the desire to be the best," emphasized Dražen.
Open applications for "Bubble Cup 16"
Microsoft Development Center in Serbia invites all interested students and high school students to apply for the programming competition "Bubble Cup 16," which will gather participants from Serbia this year. The qualifications for this year's competition started today and will last until June 8th, while the final is planned for the fall, live in Belgrade.
Teams for participation must consist of a maximum of three students or three high school students. All members of a student team must attend the same university but can study at different faculties. High school teams can be formed from students from different schools. Bubble Cup is a team programming competition focused on solving algorithmic tasks, organized since 2008. Its aim is to increase the popularity of programming among students, promote teamwork, and gather talented young programmers from across the country. The top 8 high school teams and the top 8 university teams will advance to the final competition. Many previous Bubble Cup finalists have continued their careers in the Microsoft Development Center.
Women Know IT at Sinergija 22
At Sinergija 22, one of the largest technology and business events in the region, in parallel with 33 technical lectures, a full-day Women Know IT program aimed at involving more women in IT was held. Female students studying technology and IT in Serbia had the opportunity to hear first-hand inspiring stories, experiences, and advice on career development, as well as practices in the IT sector from female engineers employed at the Microsoft Development Center in Belgrade who participate in the development of technologies used by millions of people around the world.
One of the goals of the Microsoft Development Center in Serbia is to motivate young women to start their careers in IT. MDCS strives to continuously bring information technologies closer to young people through numerous initiatives and programs.
MDCS at the Heapcon and Data Science Conference
Microsoft Development Center Serbia participated at the Heapcon conference, and employee Ljubica Vujović gave a lecture on Synapse Serverless SQL Pool: SQL without a database. Heapcon is created by a team of experts from various fields, including software engineering, project management, marketing, communications, and publishing.
The conference puts 14 years of IT event management experience into practice. At the Data Science Conference, MDCS employee Andreja Ilić was the keynote speaker on the topic "Bridging the Gap between AI Research and Human-Centered Products." The Data Science Conference is a tech-first grassroots conference that gathers the brightest and sharpest minds in the industry. It is where you can find professionals, academy representatives, and decision-makers.
Published Papers
Our team members simply excel in their respective fields. We want to celebrate their amazing achievements by sharing the papers they’ve published, inspiring them to push the boundaries further.
- Dejan Dundjerski, and others: Graphical processing unit-based parallelization of the Open Shortest Path First and Border Gateway Protocol routing protocols
- Dejan Dundjerski, and others: Automatic Database Troubleshooting of Azure SQL Databases
- Dejan Dundjerski, Stefan Lazic, and others: An extended evaluation of schema issues advisor in the azure SQL database
- Pavle Subotic, and others: Towards Elastic Incrementalization for Datalog
- Pavle Subotic, and others: Building a Join Optimizer for Soufflé
- Pavle Subotic, and others: Scalable Typestate Analysis for Low-Latency Environments
- Pavle Subotic, Milan Stojic, and others: Statically detecting data leakages in data science code
- Pavle Subotic, Milan Stojic, and others: A Static Analysis Framework for Data Science Notebooks
- Ivan Razumenic: Iris Verification with Convolutional Neural Network and Unit-Circle Layer | SpringerLink
- Andrija Jovanovic: Array requirements for scientific applications and an implementation for microsoft SQL server
- Andrija Jovanovic, Miodrag Radulovic, Maja Stikic, and others: Automatically Indexing Millions of Databases in Microsoft Azure SQL Database | Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Management of Data (acm.org)
- Nikola Milosavljevic, Ivan Stojiljkovic, other authors: 3D Face Reconstruction with Dense Landmarks | SpringerLink
- Dani Ljepava: Evaluating Determinants of Innovation Outcome in Information Technology Companies in SEE: Influence of Interorganizational Relationships (IOR) and Knowledge Transfer (KT)
- Dani Ljepava: The Ultimate Freedom of Movement between SQL Server 2022 and Managed Instance
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