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Work experience
| 2021- | Senior Researcher, Department of Knowledge Technologies, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
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| 2015-2020 | Researcher, Department of Knowledge Technologies, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| 2014-2015 | Visiting research fellow, Department of Informatics, Universita degli studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy |
| 2011-2014 | Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Knowledge Technologies, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| 2008-2011 | Research assistant, Department of Knowledge Technologies, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
Education
| 2005-2011 | Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Ljubljana, Slovenia PhD Program: New Media and e-Science Dissertation: Ensembles for predicting structured outputs |
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| 2000-2005 | Ss Cyril and Methodius University, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Skopje, Macedonia BSc Program: Computer Science, Informatics and Automation Thesis: Inductive querying environment for learning predictive clustering trees |
Project participation
| 2014-2017 | MAESTRA - Learning from Massive, Incompletely annotated, and Structured Data, FP7 FET Open Xtrack, grant no. ICT-2013-612944; co-coordinator |
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| 2014-2016 | HBP - Human Brain Project, FET Flagship, grant no. 604102 |
| 2008-2012 | PHAGOSYS - Systems biology of phagosome formation and maturation - modulation by intracellular pathogens FP7 STREP, grant no. HEALTH-F4-2008-223451 |
| 2005-2008 | IQ - Inductive Queries for Mining Patterns and Models FP6 STREP, grant no. IST-2004-516169 |
| 2013-2013 | Structured annotation, storage and retrieval of images and videos bilateral research project between Slovenia and Macedonia |
| 2009-2012 | Data mining for integrative data analysis in systemic biology basic research project, ARRS, grant no. J2-2285 |
| 2009-2010 | GardenTox - A decision support system for ensuring safe cultivation of vegetables in urban gardens bilateral research project between Slovenia and France |
| 2007-2008 | WAS - Waste application and soil functioning: identifi cation and classifi cation of soil physico-chemical and biological parameters affecting plant nutrition bilateral research project between Slovenia and France |
| 2007-2008 | Inductive Databases for Genomics and Proteomics bilateral research project between Slovenia and Croatia |
| 2007-2008 | Knowledge Discovery for Ecological Modeling of Lake Ecosystems bilateral research project between Slovenia and Macedonia |
Scholarships and awards
| 2007-2008 | Scholarship for doctoral students from the Department of Knowledge Technologies, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
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| 2005-2009 | Scholarship for doctoral studies from the Slovene Human Resources and Scholarship Fund Ad Futura, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| 2000-2005 | Scholarship for talented university students from the Ministry of Education of Macedonia, Skopje, Macedonia |
| 1997-2000 | Scholarship for talented high school students from the Ministry of Education of Macedonia, Skopje, Macedonia |
| 2005 | Diploma for graduation summa cum laude from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Skopje, Macedonia |
| 2001-2005 | Diploma for finishing each study year with high grade-point average at the Faculty of Electrical engineering, Skopje, Macedonia |
Competitions
| ESA 2016: Mars Express Power Challenge @ European Space Agency - ranked 1st |
| ImageCLEF 1013: Automatic modality classification of medical images - ranked 2nd |
| ImageCLEF 1013: Ad-hoc medical image retrieval - ranked 3rd |
| ImageCLEF@ICPR 2010: Automatic image annotaion - ranked 2nd and 3rd according to the two evaluation measures |
| ImageCLEF 2009: Automatic annotaion of medical images - ranked 3rd |
Service to the community
Program committee co-chair
| DS2014 17th International Conference on Discovery Science, Bled, Slovenia, October 8-10, 2014 |
Journal track co-chair
| ECML/PKDD 2017 European Conference on Machine Learning / Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD), Skopje, Macedonia, September 18-22, 2016 |
Program committee member
| DS2016 19th International Conference on Discovery Science, Bari, Italy, October 19-21, 2016 |
| NFMCP2016 Workshop on New Frontiers on Mining Complex Patterns held at ECML/PKDD 2016, Riva del Garda, Italy, September 19, 2015 |
| MIDAS2016 The First Workshop on MIning DAta for financial applicationS held at ECML/PKDD 2016, Riva del Garda, Italy, September 19, 2015 |
| IJCAI 2015 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 25-31, 2015. (Senior PC member) |
| ECML PKDD 2015 European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Porto, Portugal, September 7-11, 2015 |
| NFMCP2015 Workshop on New Frontiers on Mining Complex Patterns held at ECML/PKDD 2015, Porto, Portugal, September 7, 2015 |
| NFMCP2014 Workshop on New Frontiers on Mining Complex Patterns held at ECML/PKDD 2014, Nancy, France, September 19, 2014 |
| MLD09 First Workshop on Learning from Multi-Label Data held at ECML/PKDD 2009, Bled, Slovenia, September 7, 2009 |
Organizing committee
Reviewing
| Guest editor | Machine learning journal - Special issue on Discovery science Machine learning journal - Special issue on ECML/PKDD Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery journal - Special issue on ECML/PKDD |
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| Journals | Machine Learning, Information Sciences, Pattern Recognition, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge and Information Systems, Neurocomputing, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Remote Sensing, Ecological Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Information Systems, Information Fusion, Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, Journal of Computer Systems and Sciences, Expert Systems With Applications, Journal of Bioinformatics, Computers in Biology and Medicine, Journal of Pattern Recognition Research, International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, Protein and Peptide Letters, International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making, International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications, Acta geographica Slovenica (slo. Geografski Zbornik), Informatica (Ljub.), Organizacija |
| Conferences | European Conference on Machine Learning / Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD) 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016; Discovery Science (DS) 2008, 2009, 2013; National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2008; SIAM International conference on Data Mining (SDM) 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015; International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) 2009; European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) 2010,2016; International Conference on Knowledge Discovery in Databases (SIGKDD) 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016; International Conference on Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA) 2011; IEEE International Conference on Data Mining 2014, 2015, 2016; IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2014 |