User:Twentywaystolook/sandbox/Nikola Bozinovic
Nikola Bozinovic | |
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 Bozinovic in June 2011 | |
| Born | Nikola Bozinovic September 12, 1974 |
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| Known for | Founder and CEO of Frame |
| Spouse | Mina Bozinovic (m. 2002) |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | www |
Nikola Bozinovic (born September 12, 1974) is an American entrepreneur and a CEO and founder of Frame, an enterprise cloud computing company.
Early Life and Education[edit]
Bozinovic was born 1974 in Nis, Serbia (former Yugoslavia). Bozinovic attended Bora Stankovic Gymnasium (High School) in Nis, where he won the sum of 12 medals in national competitions in physics, mathematics, chemistry, and astrophysics.
Bozinovic earned his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Nis in 1998. In 2000, he was awarded Dean’s Fellowship Award to attend graduate studies at College of Engineering, Boston University. He spent the summers 2003 and 2004 as a visiting researcher at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France. In the summer of 2005, he won the National Science Foundation grant to research wavelet-based video compression at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) in Beijing, China. For the work he did with his mentor, Prof. Janusz Conrad, in the field of video processing, he won the European EURASIP Image Communications Award for 2004-2005.[1] Bozinovic earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Boston University in 2006.[2]
Political Activism[edit]
In Serbia, Bozinovic raised to national fame when as a 22-year-old student of the University of Nis, he organized and led rallies protesting the rigged election of 1996, which kept the infamous regime of Slobodan Milosevic in power. Opposing the regime was dangerous--dissenters were often persecuted--so Bozinovic successfully courted international news for coverage and protection. [3] CNN, BBC, PBS, and The New York Times all ran reports on the three month long, state-wide protest against Milosevic.[4][5][6][7]
The tipping point for the protest was a 150-mile march from Nis to Belgrade. After a 48-hour march, Bozinovic and a delegation of two other students met with president Milosevic and presented proofs of fraud in a nationally televised meeting. [8] Addressing Milosevic in a much anticipated sit-down, Bozinovic said: “Mr President, in the hope of preventing another Civil War in Serbia and fully resolved not to let our country sink into dictatorship, we are asking you to please return to the limits of law, which will protect you, too, once you become an ordinary citizen again, from the self-will of others." [9] The result of the election was undone, with Milosevic being forced to formally concede opposition victories. [10]
In the period following the protest, Bozinovic was actively involved in the creation of pro-democracy student organizations such as Student Parliament and Otpor! (English: Resistance!), which were crucial in removing Milosevic from power in October 2000.
Career[edit]
MotionDSP In 2006, Bozinovic started MotionDSP and was its first CTO and VP of Engineering. He developed software for real-time video analytics and enhancement used by some of the world’s largest forensic labs, such as the United States Secret Service and Metropolitan Police Service (Scotland Yard).
Frame In 2012, Bozinovic founded Frame, a platform for easy delivery of Windows applications from the cloud. The company came out of stealth in November 2013. Within days of release, tens of thousands of people from 190 countries were using the platform on desktops, tablets, and phones. Since then, Frame has secured $32 million in venture capital funding and is servicing enterprise companies and independent software vendors such as Hewlett Packard, Siemens, Adobe, Autodesk, SolidWorks, and ANSYS.[11]
References[edit]
- ^ "Motion Analysis in 3D DCT Domain and its Application to Video Coding". Signal Processing. 2005.
- ^ "ECE Alumni Spotlight, Nikola Bozinovic".
- ^ "Protests in Belgrade and Throughout Yugoslavia". 1996. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
- ^ "Anti-Milosevic Protesters Take to Streets despite Threats". CNN. December 2, 1996. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
- ^ "U.S. Warns Milosevic Not to Use Force Against Protesters". CNN. December 3, 1996. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
- ^ "Milosevic Opponents Wont' Back Down, Despite Shooting". CNN. December 24, 1996. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
- ^ "100,000 Serbs Take to Streets Against Milosevic". The New York Times. November 26, 1996.
- ^ "Student Foes Present Demands to Milosevic". The Washington Post. December 18, 1996. Retrieved November 9, 2016.
- ^ "The Winning over of the Top of Serbia". December 12, 1996. Retrieved November 9, 2016.
- ^ "Milosevic Accepts Opposition Victories". CNN. February 4, 1997. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
- ^ Blattberg, Eric (November 14, 2013). "Play with Photoshop in this Post: This is What the Future of Virtualized Software Looks Like". VentureBeat. Retrieved November 14, 2015.