General

Teachers of this re-training (from UP):

Assist. prof. Branko Kavšek, Ph.D. Assistant Professor in Computer Science at The Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies (UP FAMNIT) – University of Primorska in Koper and Researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (AI LAB) – “Jožef Stefan” Institute in Ljubljana.
His research includes machine learning, data mining, association rules, graphs, time series and data analysis in general. He closely collaborates with researchers from the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the Department of Information Sciences and Technologies.
He teaches courses Formal Languages and Computability, Introduction to Machine Learning and Data Mining, and Intelligent Systems to both undergraduate and master’s students at the university where he is the coordinator of the undergraduate study program Computer Science and vice head of the Department of Information Sciences and Technologies.

Assoc. prof. Jernej Vičič, Ph.D. Associate Professor in Computer Science at The Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies (UP FAMNIT) – University of Primorska, and Senior Researcher at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He received Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer Science and Informatics with the thesis "A Fast Implementation of Rules-Based Machine Translation Systems for Similar Natural Languages" in August 2012.
He is the head of the Blockchain and Language Technologies Lab at UP FAMNIT.
His major research interests involve language technologies in general, specifically, he focuses on the field of Natural Language Translation and Distributed Ledger Technologies.
Among his major achievements in the presented fields (apart from his Ph.D. thesis) is the machine translation system for the related languages: Slovenian – Croatian based on the open-source Apertium translation system toolkit. Jernej is one of the developers of the Apertium toolkit.