Dragan Maćoš was born on April 18, 1967, in Zrenjanin. From 1974 to 1982, he attended Miloje Čiplić Primary School in Novi Bečej. At the “Koča Kolarov” Gymnasium in Zrenjanin, he successfully graduated from the information technology program as one of the top students of his generation.
In 1993, he graduated from the Faculty of Science and Mathematics in Novi Sad with a degree in mathematics and informatics. While still a student, Prof. Maćoš began engaging in scientific research and published several scientific papers in the field of programming languages and artificial intelligence. After completing his studies, he started working at the Faculty of Science and Mathematics in Novi Sad but soon accepted an offer for doctoral studies at Humboldt University in Berlin, where renowned scientists and philosophers such as Max Planck, Robert Koch, G.W.F. Hegel, and Albert Einstein had worked in the past.
He successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on the implementation of programming languages for artificial intelligence in July 1998. He spent his postdoctoral studies on a cooperative project between German Telekom and Humboldt University. After completing his postdoctoral studies, he worked as a manager in major German companies: Siemens, Bertelsmann, and Mercedes.
In 2006, he earned a professorship in software engineering at Beuth Faculty in Berlin and soon became the head of the software development laboratory and study dean. He has published several dozen scientific papers and co-authored two books.
Prof. Maćoš is married to Nicola Maćoš, a German, with whom he has two daughters, Julia and Franziska. He is a great jazz enthusiast and in his free time plays tennis and golf.
Dragan Maćoš supports his close friend, Günter Beining – the founder of the eponymous humanitarian foundation – in implementing projects to help disadvantaged children in Nicaragua. Prof. Maćoš still collaborates with his unforgettable friends who had a significant influence on the early development of his scientific thought, professors from the Faculty of Science in Novi Sad: Dr. Mirjana Ivanović and Dr. Zoran Budimac.
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