Branislav Anwarzai is the founder and director of the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS), managing director of the technology consultancy INNO, s. r. o. and chief technology executive at NEVIA SE. His work sits at the intersection of applied physics, electronic engineering and software architecture — from the design of sensors and digital systems to the deployment of platforms that turn measured data into decisions.
Professional record
| Period | Position | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| present | Institute of Advanced Studies — founder and director | research and development at the intersection of artificial intelligence, sensing, IoT and cyber security |
| present | INNO, s. r. o. — managing director | technology consulting, system design and delivery |
| present | NEVIA SE — chief technology executive | technology strategy |
| 8+ years | Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences — research scientist | multilayer magnetic thin-film structures, sensors of mechanical strain |
| 11 years | Slovak and Czech technical universities — university lecturer | electronics, sensing, signal processing |
| — | GE Inspection Technologies, Germany | research and engineering positions, non-destructive testing |
| — | PSL a. s. | research and engineering positions |
Scientific profile
The core of his scientific work is multilayer magnetic thin-film structures and their use as sensing elements of mechanical strain — systems in which the functional property is determined by layer thicknesses at the level of single nanometres and by the quality of their interfaces. The results were published in international journals indexed in Current Contents and cited by groups working on flexible spintronics, including a citation in Nature Electronics.
| 25+ | years across research, engineering and innovation |
| 40+ | international scientific papers and conference contributions |
| 48 | citations in indexed scientific literature (Scopus) |
| 2 | granted patents in magnetostrictive sensing |
Author profiles: Scopus (Author ID 6505731682) · IEEE Xplore.
Selected publications
- Anwarzai, B.; Áč, V.; Lúby, Š.; Majková, E.; Senderák, R. Pseudo spin-valve on plastic substrate as sensing elements of mechanical strain. Vacuum, vol. 84, no. 1, 2009, pp. 108 – 110. (cited in Nature Electronics, 2018)
- Lúby, Š.; Anwarzai, B.; Áč, V.; Majková, E.; Senderák, R. Pseudo spin-valves with different spacer thickness as sensing elements of mechanical strain. Vacuum, vol. 86, no. 6, 2012, pp. 718 – 720.
- Lúby, Š.; Majková, E.; Debnárová, A.; Senderák, R.; Áč, V.; Anwarzai, B. Effect of magnetic flux distribution on GMR in Ag/Co multilayers. Thin Solid Films, vol. 433, 2003, pp. 243 – 246.
- Áč, V.; Anwarzai, B.; Lúby, Š.; Majková, E. Influence of mechanical strain on magnetic characteristics of spin valves. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 100, 2008.
Patents
- WO2009088378 — magnetostrictive sensor; international PCT publication (WIPO).
- SK 50001/2008 — magnetostrictive sensor; Slovak national patent.
Areas of expertise
Sensing and measurement. GMR, spin-valve and TMR magnetic sensors, magnetostrictive sensors, strain gauging, ultrasound, distributed fibre-optic sensors (DFOS), intelligent sensor systems.
Hardware and embedded systems. Mixed-signal, FPGA, RF and PCB design including EMC pre-compliance; development and modelling of microprocessor architectures; RTOS firmware, real-time signal-processing chains, secure over-the-air updates.
Artificial intelligence and computing infrastructure. Model development and deployment in edge computing; building the compute structure from embedded units through FPGA to GPUs and inference accelerators; MLOps, quantisation and model validation; parallel and distributed computing for IoT.
Digital twins and Smart City. The IntelliTwin platform — a modular solution for integrating existing Smart-City installations, IoT sensor networks and security systems with hardware-accelerated inference and a library of more than 462 ready-to-use models.
Cyber security and compliance. Qualification as a cyber security manager and ISO/IEC 27001 certification; security architecture, audit trail and its portability into a SIEM, NIS2, GDPR, the AI Act, preparing organisations for audit.
Enterprise software and data. Cloud-native services, data analytics and data mining, information-system architecture.
Innovation management. Technology foresight under a UNIDO-certified methodology; contributions to the European state-aid framework for innovative companies, approved in more than 11 EU countries.
Memberships and certifications
| IEEE | Professional Member (2007 – 2011) |
| Slovak Physical Society | member (2006 – present) |
| UNIDO | Technology Foresight for Corporations certificate (2006) |
| RIS INSTIT | management unit, work-package coordinator (2005 – 2008) |
| Cyber Security Manager | certification |
| ISO/IEC 27001 | certification |
| TOGAF · ITIL | international certifications in enterprise architecture and service management (2022) |
Forms of cooperation
Three are the most frequent — and all three begin with a single e-mail:
director@ioas.pro · +421 903 667 654
The institute’s mission
The Institute of Advanced Studies was founded for the work that neither academia nor product engineering alone covers well: carrying a verified finding through to a deployed system. It combines research methodology with delivery across the full range — data, models, hardware, software, deployment, operation — so that the outcome is not merely an answer but a working capability the client can operate, extend and evidence.