Assistant Professor Damjan Vlaj, Ph.D., University Graduate Engineer in Electrical Engineering, is a university teacher habilitated in the subject area of telecommunications. He is a member of the Digital Signal Processing Laboratory at the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications. He is scientifically active in the field of digital signal processing, speech activity detection, robust speech processing, automatic speech recognition and feature extraction. He is the author or co-author of 6 scientific articles published in foreign and domestic scientific journals, 35 articles published in proceedings of domestic and foreign scientific conferences, mentor at 6 and co-mentor at 3 graduation papers. He is a review writer in two international journals with an impact factor. In the past, he has participated in many applied projects with domestic and foreign industries.