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Saso Dzeroski
Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Head of Department of Knowledge Technologies
Description
Sašo Džeroski is Head of the Department of knowledge technologies at the Jozef Stefan Institute and full professor at the Jozef Stefan International Postgraduate School, both in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is a fellow of EurAI, the European Association of AI, in recognition of his "Pioneering Work in the field of AI”. He is a member of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts and a member of Academia Europea. He is past president and current vice-president of SLAIS, The Slovenian Society of Artificial Intelligence.
His broad range of activities covers many facets of Artificial Intelligence, from basic and applied research through education to regulation. His research interests focus on machine learning, computational scientific discovery, and semantic technologies. His group has developed machine learning methods that learn explainable models from complex data in the presence of domain knowledge: These include methods for multi-target prediction, semi-supervised and relational learning, and learning from data streams, as well as automated modelling of dynamic systems. The developed methods, released in open-source software, have been used to solve important problems in science and society, including agriculture and environmental sciences, medicine and life sciences, physics and material sciences, and space operations/Earth observation.
Professor Džeroski has lead (as coordinator) many national and international (EU-funded ) projects and has participated in many more. He currently leads a national project on the topic of Artificial Intelligence for Science. The work of professor Džeroski has been extensively published and is highly cited, with more than 25000 citations and an h-index of 75 (in the GoogleScholar database). Prof. Džeroski is recognized as the best (most cited) Computer Scientist in Slovenia – according to the ranking by Research.com. He has supervised many PhD students, as well as PostDoc fellows, who are now active in both academia and industry in many countries across three continents.
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