About me

I am an assistant professor at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty for computer and information science, Laboratory for Data Technologies. I interested into databases, natural language processing, semantic Web, information retrieval and information extraction.

I am also teaching courses of natural language processing, web information extraction and retrieval, database design and management and information systems and modeling. I also work on projects in the fields of Internet of Things (EkoSMART), information extraction (Ministry of Public Administration), text search in NoSQL databases (Iskratel), data warehouse design for large real-time streams processing (DRI) and digitalization of a company processes for optimization and assets numbering and tracking (Kolektor d.o.o.). Internationally I actively cooperate with the Universit ́e Paris 1, Sorbonne, the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, College of Education, University of South Florida and Harvard University

Once you have a truly massive amount of information integrated as knowledge, then the human-software system will be superhuman, in the same sense that mankind with writing (or language itself) is superhuman compared to mankind before writing (or language itself). We look back on pre-linguistic cavemen and think 'they weren't quite human, were they?' In much the same way, our descendants will look back on pre-AI homo sapiens with exactly that mixture of otherness and pity.
—Doug Lenat

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My office hours are every Wednesday at 2pm in Laboratory for Data Technologies (south, room 2.44) or by arrangement via e-mail.

Work: Harvard University, Department of Biomedical Informatics, 2022, Visiting Professor; University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, Autumn 2018-now, Assistant Professor; University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, Autumn 2014-Autumn 2018, Assistant with a PhD; Laboratory for Data Technologies, reporting to Prof. Dr. Marko Bajec, Vecna pot 113, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Junior Researcher from Industry; Microsoft Development Center Norway, Oslo (Torggata 2-4-6, NO-0181 Oslo), Summer-Autumn 2014, Software Development Engineer in Test Intern; Optilab d.o.o. & Laboratory for Data Technologies, 2011-2014, Junior Researcher from industry

Education: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of computer and information science, 2010-2014, PhD in computer science; University of Ljubljana, Faculty of computer and information science, 2006-2010, Bsc. in computer science and mathematics; Electrotechnical and Computer Technical School and Gymnasium Ljubljana, 2002-2006, Technical Gymnasium, General Graduation; Primary school Sostro, 1998-2002, 5th-8th grade; Primary school Mali Lipoglav, 1994-1998, 1st-4th grade; Kindergarten Kekec, 1993-1994, pre-school education

Contacts: slavko AT zitnik.si; slavko.zitnik AT fri.uni-lj.si; @szitnik; LinkedIn profile; Personal blog; Skype: slavkozitnik; Mobile: +386 31 543 547

Research indexing: Slovenian research agency profile, SICRIS number 34156; Google Scholar

DODATI RR sodelovanja

Marko Sumina (PhD co-supervision)
Timotej Knez (PhD supervision)