Zoran Budimac was born in 1960. in Sombor, Serbia. He got the academic rank title of full professor from the University of Novi Sad in 2004. He worked at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. He was one of the best students of the rst generation of Informatics studies at Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad. He was one of a few colleagues from the Department who established, lead and continuously improved modern studies in Informatics, Computer Science and Software Engineering at Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad.
During his long fruitful academic career, he had a signi cant and essential impact and in uence on study programs, innovations, and scienti c work with young colleagues and assistants for informatics part of Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Sciences. As a creative and visionary person, he persistently insisted on the introduction of world standards into educational and teaching processes. All these activities were based on several important and in uential international projects and cooperation with recognized numerous European Universities. His academic network and cooperation with international institutions and colleagues encompasses more than 20 countries all over the world. He is meritorious for getting rst big international projects in the eld of Computer Science and Informatics at Faculty of Sciences.
He has published more than 300 research papers in the areas of Agent technologies, Software engineering, Learning technologies, 16 books, one international monograph and presented his work at more 1Authored by the Proceedings editors and taken from the o cial IN MEMORIAM web page published by the Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia at the link https://www.dmi.uns.ac. rs/o-departmanu/secanja/zoran-budimac/ accessible 01.10.2024. than 180 international conferences. He also delivered numerous invited speeches at di erent Universities all over the world (Austria, Australia, Bulgaria, China, Germany, Hungary, Thailand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, and so on). He was the principal investigator of numerous large national and international projects.
During his fruitful academic career, he was a member of di erent important Faculty and University bodies. For a long period, he served as the Head of several Computer Laboratories and the Head of Chair of computer science, a member of University council for Informatics and member of Management committee of an international journal. In the last ten years his scienti c interests were in various aspects of software quality.
He was an adored and outstanding teacher, excellent scientists, but also exceptional person with a speci c sense of humor.