Milan Kalajdzic, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the Department of Naval Architecture, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade. He is a Naval Architect with 13 years of experience in research, design and teaching, primarily in hydrodynamics, mathematical modeling, nonlinear ship motion of conventional and unconventional vessels, and its 3 applications on sailing yachts and planing craft. He was also engaged on application of ANN methods for analysis of experimental data. M Kalajdzic was involved in various industry projects, primaly dealing with small craft, unconventional vessels and yachts. In recognition of his work, as a member of the research team, he received RINA-Lloyd's Register Educational Trust Ship Safety Award for 2007 and RINA WAKEHAM Prize for 2010. He is a member of SNAS (Society of Naval Architects of Serbia) and RINA.
Aleksandar Simic, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Naval Architecture, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade. He is a Naval Architect with 20 years of experience in research, design and teaching, primarily in hydrodynamics of conventional and unconventional vessels. He was involved in development of several mathematical models based on the experimental data derived on models representing unconventional high-speed hull series. In recognition of his work, as a member of the research team, he received in 2015 SNAME's The Vice Admiral E.L.Cochrane Award for best peer-reviewed paper published by SNAME. He is a member of SNAS (Society of Naval Architects of Serbia), RINA and SNAME.