I am a professor at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, where I lecture on subjects that mostly include machine learning, data mining and decision support. My primary research interest are data mining, machine learing and data visualization, and applications of these in bioinformatics and systems biology. I am co-author of open-source data mining software Orange, which features Python scripting and visual programming, and GenePath, an epistasis analysis system which can be used to infer genetic networks from a set of experimental data. Our most recent web application is dictyExpress, a Web 2.0 software for Dictyostelium gene expression data analytics.
Activities and Events
Member of program committees of IV10 in 2010, and AIME, IDAMAP, EvoBIO, OSDM, CBMS in MLSB, all in 2009. I am an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Current Bioinformatics, Open Bioinformatics Journal in Informatica Medica Slovenica.
Education
- B.Sc., 1991, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana
- M.Sc., 1993, University of Houston, Department of Computer Science
- Ph.D., 1997, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana
Projects
Current Projects
- Qualitative modeling from data, Basic Research and Application Project, J2-2194 (B), 2009−2012
- Data and knowledge integration methods for network systems biology, Basic Research and Application Project, J2-2197, 2009−2012
- , Research Programme, P2-0209, 2009−2014
- Computational methods and tools for functional and chemogenomics of Dictyostelium, Bilateral Collaboration Project, BI-ZDA/08-10-73, 2008−2010
- Knowledge technology approaches in drug discovery: analysis and experiment planning in high-throughput genetics, Basic Research and Application Project, L2-1112, 2008−2010
Closed Projects
- Computational Phenomics, Basic Research and Application Project, J2-9699, 2007−2009
- Knowledge discovery and visualization methods for textual data, Bilateral Collaboration Project, PROTEUS 07-08, 2007−2008
- Preventive effects of antioxidants on development of hyperlipidemia and atherosclerosis in the animal model of obesity, Target Research programmes, V3-0365, 2006−2008
- Knowledge technologies and decision support in health information portals, Target Research programmes, V2-0221, 2006−2008
- X-MEDIA: Large Scale Knowledge Sharing and Reuse Across Media, European Project (Framework Programmes), FP6-26978, 2006−2010
- Artificial intelligence approaches to knowledge discovery in functional genomics, Bilateral Collaboration Project, BI-IT/05-08-011, 2006−2009
- Artificial intelligence approaches to knowledge discovery in functional genomics, Bilateral Collaboration Project, BI-IT/05-08-011, 2006−2009
- STEROLTALK: Functional genomics of complex regulatory networks from yeast to human: cross talk of sterol homeostasis and drug metabolism, European Project (Framework Programmes), LSHG-CT-2005-512096, 2005−2008
- Artificial Intelligence Approaches for Knowledge Discovery in Functional Genomics, Bilateral Collaboration Project, 2005−2006
- Artificial intelligence and inteligent systems, Research Programme, P2-0209, 2004−2008
- ASPIC: Argumentation Service Platform with Integrated Components, European Project (Framework Programmes), IST-002307, 2004−2007
- Artificial Intelligence Approaches for Knowledge Discovery , Basic Research and Application Project, J2-3387 (C), 2001−2004
Selected publications
Graduate Students
Minca Mramor, Lan Umek, Marko Toplak, Lan Žagar, Gregor Rot.
