Ljupčo Kocarev is a Macedonian scientist, academic and professor of physics and electrical engineering and the President of the national Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
In 2006, he was elected a member of the IEEE. He was elected an associate member of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts on May 27, 2003, and a full member on May 1, 2007. As of January 1, 2020, he was elected President of national Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
The scientific field of activity and contribution of Ljupčo Kocarev includes several fields physics and technical sciences, from nonlinear physics, complex systems and networks (electrical circuits and systems) to information theory, cryptography, machine learning and data processing. In the period from 1986 to date, he has published more than 140 publications in international journals and more than 150 publications in proceedings of peer-reviewed papers from international conferences. He was the editor of six books and the author of six patents granted in the United States and Europe.