Curriculum Vitae

Danica Porobić
Stojana Novakovida 29, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
phone: +381-64-129-5508 +381-21-401-045
e-mail: dporobic@gmail.com

Education:
 2008-present
o University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Department of
Mathematics and Informatics – Master’s program
o Expected graduation date: February 2010
 2004-2008
o University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, BSc in
Informatics, GPA 10/10
o Best student of Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
o Best student in the field of study, University of Novi Sad
 2000-2004
o High school “Jovan Jovanovid Zmaj“ Novi Sad, GPA 5/5, Best Student of the Class
award
 1992-2000
o Primary school “Prva vojvođanska brigada“ Novi Sad, GPA 5/5, Best Student of the
Class award

Professional experience:
 February 2008-Present – Microsoft Development Center Serbia, Belgrade
o Software Development Engineer in SQL Engine Team
o Working on core geometry fundamental of SQL Spatial Library
 August-October 2007 – Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, USA
o 3 month internship with Windows Serviceability division, networking team
o Projects: Development of extension of standard tests for networking components in
Windows Vista and code coverage analysis of sample WDK driver for wireless
network cards
 July-October 2006 - Microsoft Development Center Serbia, Belgrade
o 4 month internship program with tablet PC reco breadth team developing European
language handwriting recognizers for Microsoft Tablet PC
o Project: A novel non-language specific approach to ink segmentation tools and
algorithms for labeling electronic ink samples used in training of handwriting
recognizer engines for tablet PC.
Awards/Competitions:
 „Aleksandar Sasa Popovic“ University award for exceptional graduation thesis in the field of
Computer Science
 University and faculty award for excellent results in first, third and fourth year of studies
 University and faculty award for excellent results during undergraduate studies
 Imagine Cup 2006 - World semi-finalist in Algorithms.
 Imagine Cup 2005 - World semi-finalist in Visual Games and Algorithms
 Bronze medal at International Olympics in Informatics, Athens, Greece, 2004
 Bronze medal at Balkan Olympics in Informatics, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 2004
 Silver medal at Balkan Olympics in Informatics, Iasi, Romania, 2003
 National competitions in Yugoslavia:
o Mathematics: 3rd in 1998, 1st place in 2002;
o Computer Science: 2nd in 2003, 1st in 2004
o Physics: 2nd place in 2000 and 2002
 National competitions in Serbia:
o Mathematics 1st place 2002, 3rd place in 1998,2000,2001, 2004;
o Computer Science: 3rd place in 2003;
o Physics: 1st place in 2002, 2nd in 2000, 3rd in 2003
 Second prize for student paper “Algebraic Algorithms” at 32. “Primatijada“

Fellowships:
 10/2002-10/2003 - Serbian Foundation of Scientific Youth Development
 10/2003-12/2003 - Serbian Ministry of Science and Environment
 01/2004-12/2004 - Telekom Srbija
 01/2005-09/2008 - Serbian Ministry of Science

Papers
 D.Porobid, M.Vasid: "Introduction to UML for novices", 6th Workshop “Software Engineering
Education and Reverse Engineering”, Bulgaria, 09/18-23/2006.
 D.Porobid: “Efficient distance computation between sets of planar geometric objects” (in
Serbian), Telfor 2009, Belgrade, 11/24-26/2009.

Other information:
 Represented University of Novi Sad at international student competitions: ACM ICPC
Regional Contests in 2005 and 2006 in Bucharest, Romania and “Vojtech Jarnik” Annual
International Mathematical Competition 2005, Czech Republic
 Attended 3rd Central European Summer School on Functional Programming,
Budapest/Komarno, 2009
 Member of Scientific Committee for High School Competitions in Informatics
 Presenter at Festival of Science, Novi Sad, 2009.
 Professional memberships: ACM since 2005, IEEE since 2006
 Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English

Languages:
 Native: Serbian
 Active knowledge: English