Marko Beko

Marko Beko was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in November 1977. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, in 2008. He received the title of the Professor with Aggregation/Habilitation of electrical and computer engineering from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, in 2018. He is currently an Associate Professor with IST. He is also one of the founders of Koala Tech. He has published 60 journal articles, 85 conference papers, three book chapters, and one book. He holds eight patents (granted and pending) in USA and Portugal. His current research interests include the area of signal processing for wireless communications. He serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society and Journal on Physical Communication (Elsevier). He was the winner of the 2008 IBM Portugal Scientific Award. According to the methodology proposed by Stanford University, he was among the most influential researchers in the world, in 2019, where he joined the top 1 of scientists whose work is most cited by other colleagues in the field of information and communication technologies, sub-area networks and telecommunications.

In 2025 Marko Beko has joined the Center of Technology and Systems (CTS) as an integrated member.