Dr. Rastko Selmic is a Professor Emeritus in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, where he served as an Associate Chair of graduate studies, a Graduate Program Director, and was a Full Professor until 2025. Currently he is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Nicholas K. Akins Eminent Scholar Chair at Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana, USA. He was a Research Fellow at the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). From 2000 to 2002, he was a Lead DSP Systems Engineer at Signalogic Inc. in Dallas, Texas.
He received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Belgrade, Serbia in 1994, followed by M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington, USA in 1997 and 2000, respectively, under the supervision of Dr. Frank L. Lewis.
Dr. Selmic’s current research interests include intelligent control, neural networks, applied AI in control of multi-agent systems, control of opinion dynamics, and smart sensors and actuators. He is the author/co-author of a US patent with four additional reports of invention, more than 160 journal and peer-reviewed conference papers, four book chapters, and books Wireless Sensor Networks: Security, Coverage, and Localization, Springer 2016, and Neuro-Fuzzy Control of Industrial Systems with Actuator Nonlinearities, SIAM Press, Philadelphia, PA, 2002.
Dr. Selmic received the 2023 Teaching Excellence Award from Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University, the 2009 IFM Award for Outstanding Publication, ARRI Invention Award in 2000, the first prize at the IEEE Fort Worth Section Graduate Paper Contest in 1999, and ARRI Best Paper Award in 1997. He served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and currently serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics and Frontiers in Control Engineering. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Professional Engineer of Ontario (PEO).