Mateja Putic is a US Citizen.
Mateja received his Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Engineering and Masters of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, both from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va.
As part of his graduate thesis, he developed a hardware/software co-design methodology for ultra-low power embedded systems, achieving energy reduction as high as 37% over traditional designs. This work facilitated the establishment of research that has produced proposals to the National Science Foundation (NSF) and other funding agencies to procure over $300,000 in research grants.
Prior to Luna, Mateja was Chief Product Developer for Energy Guardian, a smart home energy monitoring venture based in Charlottesville, Va. This effort was selected as a finalist in the 2009 Darden-UVa Business Plan Competition (22% acceptance).
He held the position of Research Engineer at Luna Innovations where focused on developing innovative low power (< 10 uW) embedded wireless sensing, energy harvesting, and energy management electronics. He has acted as Principal Investigator for the Air Force Distributed Plant Monitoring SBIR program that developed a miniature (< 500g) wireless sensor for the assessment of rotating machinery, powered solely by harvested energy.
Mateja is currently pursuing his Ph.D in Computer Engineering at UVA in the field of Inexact Computer Design.
Mateja is a member of the IEEE and of Eta Kappa Nu, a national electrical and computer engineering honor society.