Presenters
Dragi Kocev is a researcher at the Department of Knowledge Technologies, JSI. He completed his PhD in 2011 at the JSI Postgraduate School in Ljubljana on the topic of learning ensemble models for predicting structured outputs. He was a visiting research fellow at the University of Bari, Italy in 2014/2015.
His research interests lie in the development of methods for analysis of complex data and their application in a variety of domains (incl. life sciences, environmental sciences and engineering). His work considers developing human-centric AI methods that are trustworthy and provide explainability/unerstandability for the domain experts.
He has participated in several national Slovenian projects, the EU funded projects IQ, PHAGOSYS and HBP. He was co-coordinator of the FP7 FET Open project MAESTRA. He is currently the Principal Investigator of two ESA funded projects: GALAXAI – Machine learning for spacecraft operation and AiTLAS – AI prototyping environment for EO.
He has been member of the PC of premium ML conferences (e.g., DS, ECML PKDD, AAAI, IJCAI, KDD) and member of the editorial board of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Machine Learning Journal, Expert Systems with Applications (as Action Editor) and Ecological Informatics. He served as PC co-chair for DS 2014 and Journal track co-chair for ECML PKDD 2017.
Jasmin Bogatinovski is a research associate in the group of Distributed Operating Systems at TU Berlin. He received his MSc. title in Computer Science
from the IPS Jo\v{z}ef Stefan in 2019 while working at the Department of Knowledge Technologies as collaborator. His research interest are in the areas of: artificial intelligence, machine learning and distributed systems.
More specifically, he is interested in the area of meta learning and its impact across different learning tasks including single-target, multi-target classification/regression and the anomaly detection task. From the practical
aspects he is interested in developing and applying novel machine learning methods in the domain of IT operation (AIOps).
Ana Kostovska is a PhD student at the Department of Knowledge Technologies at the Jozef Stefan Institute. She is a holder of the Young Researcher Grant awarded by the Slovenian research agency. Her research interests lie in the fields of machine learning, and knowledge representation and reasoning. Ana’s research work has focused on formalizing the knowledge in a variety of domains (i.e., machine learning, processed-based modelling, optimization) in the form of ontologies. Her main goal is to improve reusability and reproducibility of the research resources and develop benchmarking systems that rely on the use of semantic web technologies. She has been involved in several national and international research projects (e.g., IMPERATRIX, TAILOR) and is currently working on two ESA funded projects: GalaxAI and AITLAS.
Panče Panov is a researcher at JSI KT and Assistant Professor at the Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School and Faculty of Information Studies in Novo Mesto. He completed his PhD in 2012 in data mining at the JS International Postgraduate School, Ljubljana. His research interests include ML, data mining, knowledge discovery and ontologies for describing them in various applications. He is the principal investigator of the national basic research project IMPERATRIX (2018-2021) and was involved in several other national and EU projects (e.g. IQ, SUMO, MAESTRA). He published over 30 scientific publications and was the co-editor of one book and one journal special issue, both published by Springer. He was program co-chair of the International Conference on Discovery Science in 2014.