Aleksandar Kavčić
Aleksandar Kavčić (; born 1968 in Belgrade) is a Serbian electrical engineer, university professor and philanthropist who is currently active as an Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Carnegie Mellon University since 2017 and as a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Biography. He studied at the prestigious Mathematical Grammar School and University of Belgrade School of Electrical Engineering. After completing his studies, Kavčić moved abroad due to the civil war which took place in former Yugoslavia. Prior to 2017, Kavčić served as assistant professor, associate professor and professor of electrical engineering at  Harvard University and the University of Hawai'i at Manoa where he is presently Professor of Electrical Engineering. He also served as visiting associate professor at the City University of Hong Kong in the Fall of 2005 and as visiting scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in the Spring of 2006. In 2016, the Carnegie Mellon University won a lawsuit against the Marvell Technology Group for infringing intellectual property of Kavčić and his mentor Jose Moura, gaining a settlement of US$750,000,000. He is the founded of "Alek Kavčić Foundation" which has the goal to provide high-quality textbooks  available for free download for all elementary school students in Serbia. Over the years, he donated new computers to a number of high schools in Serbia. Kavčić resides in Austin and Belgrade. Political career. In the 2020 Serbian parliamentary elections, he was a candidate for MP on the electoral list of the Enough is Enough (DJB) party, and Kavčić was presented as the president of the party education board. The party failed to pass the electoral threshold, and Kavčić decided to leave the party.