Academic

Academic Background

Education, • Ph.D., Computer Science (AI), University of Ljubljana, February 1999. Dissertation: Machine learning on non-homogeneous, distributed text data. Thesis advisors: Ivan Bratko, Tom Mitchell., • M.Sc., Computer Science (AI), University of Ljubljana, December 1995. Thesis: Domain-Tailored Machine Learning. Thesis advisors: Ivan Bratko, Nada Lavrac., • B.Sc., Computer Science, University of Ljubljana, December 1990.Thesis:Machine Learning System: Magnus Assistant. Thesis advisor: Ivan Bratko., • High School, emphases on mathematics and computer science, Rijeka, Croatia, May 1985.

Academic Qualifications

Research interests: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Text and Web Mining, Data Mining, Semantic Web, Intelligent Agents, Applications of Machine Learning, Data (Text, Web) Mining. Most of my research work is connected with the study and development of machine learning and data mining techniques and their applications on real-world problems from different areas, for instance, medicine, pharmacology, manufacturing, economy and recently learning from the Web., Editor of the following books:, • Data mining and decision support: integration and collaboration (Mladenic, Lavrac, Bohanec, Moyle, eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003., • Web Mining: from Web to Semantic Web (Berendt, Hotho, Mladenic, Someren, Spiliopoulou, Stumme, eds.) Lecture notes in AI, Berlin; Heidelberg; New York:Springer, 2004., • Semantics, Web and Mining: Joint International Workshop, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Berendt, Grobelnik, Hotho, Mladenic, Semeraro, Schinke, Someren, Spiliopoulou, Stumme, eds.), Springer, 2006.