Student Council

“The Next Chapter in the ICST Society – Nurturing the Creativity of Research and Innovation”

Through its free membership program and AGORA concept, ICST sees the promotion of talent and new ideas as one of the central missions of the Society, providing a radical approach to how researchers interact, inviting the next generation of students to continually refine that view.
To support this vision, the ICST Student Council has established ICST Student Technology Forums (STFs) dedicated to emerging technology areas, whose objective is to provide an organizational framework and a set of dissemination and collaboration tools and services that facilitate the global co-operation among student communities and serve the research advancement of their members. As such, they will support students’ interests, career development and advancement of academic goals in ICT related fields.

Read more about the ICST Student Technology Forums.

Aleksandar Matic - Vice Chair

Aleksandar Matic is a PhD student in Telecommunications at the University of Trento  (Italy) since November 2008. His research interests include ambient intelligence, assisted living, technology to support healthcare and machine learning. He is currently a researcher at CREATE-NET, being actively involved in the European-funded project INTERSTRESS and ACUBE project funded by the Province of Trento. Aleksandar graduated from the School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Belgrade in Serbia. He was engaged several times as a lecturer and Lab assistant. Aleksandar has also 5 years experience within the media, working as a TV host and journalist on national television.  For more information, please see http://aleksandarmatic.eu 

Alexey Baraev - Vice Chair

Alexey Baraev is a researcher at the CREATE-NET international research center where he develops optimization solutions for mobile networks operators and equipment vendors. Alexey’s past experience is in the telecom industry and includes several engineering and leadership positions with suppliers of telecom equipment and services. Formerly with Motorola Inc. as a Lead System Engineer in networks support in the CIS region, Alexey’s expertise covers delivery and management of high-tech support services for industrial customers and mobile networks integration.

Alexey completed a master’s degree in electrical engineering in 2001 at the St. Petersburg State Transport University in Russia where he won the university’s Best Thesis Award of 2001 and the Prize for Thesis’ Industrial Applicability 2001 from the Russian State Railways. In 2003-2004 Alexey was a recipient of the Swedish Institute scholarship and subsequently in 2005 Alexey earned his M.Sc. degree in electronics at the University of Gavle in Sweden where he emphasized the telecom front-end electronics. Alexey is currently working on his Ph.D. targeting the development of optimization mechanisms for combined circuit and packet switched cellular networks.

Patrick Bond - Vice Chair

ICST Scientific Council Co-ordinator
Managing Director, Podo Consulting, Trento, Italy.

Patrick Bond is currently the Vice Chair of the ICST Student Council and ICST Scientific Council Co-ordinator. He also provides consultancy in the field of innovation and broadband communications. His background is both technical and commercial in nature with technical focus in broadband technology (optical, WDM, wireless, FTTx, RF etc.) and commercial focus on customer sales and support.

With over 15 years experience in telecommunications, Patrick combines a successful track record in Business being the Technical Director of the Asia Pacific Region for companies such as Philips Electronics and C-COR (now known as ARRIS) as well as Sales Director for C-COR, starting up the company in Singapore and providing key Account support to telecommunications companies in the region. He also has extensive experience in project management, marketing and product research and development providing keynote presentations at a number of conferences and seminars internationally.

In Science and Research, Patrick served as the General Chair for the first ICST International ChinacomBiz Conference and Volume Editor of Springer’s CCIS ‘Communications and Networking in China’ series, 2008. Earlier he worked as a Research Associate for the Microelectronics and Materials Technology Centre (MMTC) at the RMIT University, Australia. There he completed his M. Eng by research on integrated InP/InGaAs optical waveguide photo-detectors utilising UHV technology. Parts of his research were published in papers of the prestigious Materials Research Society (MRS). He also lectured IT and Computers at the Dept. of Medical Radiation and tutored Engineering and Design Innovation and Signals and Systems at the Dept. of Communications and Electronic Engineering.

Patrick’s postgraduate qualifications include a Master of Business Administration, (2002) Nanyang University Singapore and a Master of Engineering (by Research, Electronics) (1995) RMIT University Australia. He graduated as a Bachelor of Engineering (with Honours, Electronics), (1991), RMIT University, Australia. Other noted studies include, PRINCE II Foundation (2006) graduate Australia, Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) course (2002) Singapore, Marketing II Graduate (1997) School of Management University of NSW Australia.