Dr Ferdian Jovan

About

Office Address Meston BuildingOld Aberdeen CampusMeston Walk AB24 3UEView on Map School/DepartmentSchool of Natural and Computing Sciences Personal WebsiteGoogle ScholarLinkedin Biography I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Aberdeen - South China Normal University Joint Institute in the School of Computing and Natural Sciences, University of Aberdeen. I am part of Aberdeen Ageing Well group. I am also a visiting research fellow in the Faculty of Engineering, University of Bristol. Prior to joining University of Aberdeen, I had been a research fellow in various universities: I worked with Prof. Ian Craddock and Dr. Ryan McConville at University of Bristol developing machine learning models to identify potential digital biomarkers on a person living with Parkinson’s disease with IoT

Education

• PhD Computer Science 2019 - University of Birmingham
• MSc Computational Logic 2014 - Technische Universitaet Dresden
• BSc Computer Science 2010 - Universitas Indonesia

Selected publications

• Subterranean Mine Inspection Using the Prometheus Re-Configurable Drone 2026 - PublishedBrown, L., Clarke, R., Akbari, A., Jovan, F., Marafie, J., Marjanovic, O., Bernardini, S., Richardson, T., Watson, S. Journal of Field Robotics, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 1646-1660Contributions to Journals: Articles[ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/rob.70112[OPEN ACCESS] https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/4562d9a6-6c47-4f71-9f75-4ddcbacc15e2/download[ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
• [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/rob.70112
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• Optimising TinyML with quantization and distillation of transformer and mamba models for indoor localisation on edge devices 2025 - PublishedSuwannaphong, T., Jovan, F., Craddock, I., McConville, R. Scientific Reports, vol. 15, 10081Contributions to Journals: Articles[ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-94205-9[OPEN ACCESS] https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/914035d0-4524-4c8c-a2d5-d752a05313ed/download[ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
• [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-94205-9
• [OPEN ACCESS] https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/914035d0-4524-4c8c-a2d5-d752a05313ed/download
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• A multimodal dataset of real world mobility activities in Parkinson’s disease 2023 - PublishedMorgan, C., Tonkin, E. L., Masullo, A., Jovan, F., Sikdar, A., Khaire, P., Mirmehdi, M., McConville, R., Tourte, G. J., Whone, A., Craddock, I. Scientific Data, vol. 10, no. 1, 918Contributions to Journals: Articles[ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02663-5[OPEN ACCESS] https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/729346fb-0116-4a9a-954e-acd51dfec0ea/download[ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
• [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02663-5