Slavko Žitnik
Associate Professor
Slovenia
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Top SchoolSlavko Žitnik is an Associate Professor at the University of Ljubljana's Faculty of Computer and Information Science with 12 years of experience in academia and a research focus on information retrieval and text information extraction. Since 2023 he has served as Vice Dean for Education, shaping curriculum and educational strategy across the faculty. He leads several professional initiatives, chairing the Slovenian Society INFORMATIKA and the Slovenian Language Technologies Society, and contributes to policy and governance roles on AKOS's Supervisory Board and the Slovenian National and University Library Advisory Council. He earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science with a specialization in information retrieval and extraction from the University of Ljubljana in 2010, underpinning a career that blends research, teaching, and leadership. Based in Slovenia, he combines academic leadership with active community involvement to advance informatics education and language technologies.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Information Retrieval, Information Extraction from Text, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Information Retrieval, Information Extraction from Text at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information ScienceUniverzitetni diplomirani inženir računalništva in matematike, Interdisciplinarni študij računalništva in matematike, Univerzitetni diplomirani inženir računalništva in matematike, Interdisciplinarni študij računalništva in matematike at Faculty of Computer and Information Science and Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Uni. of Lj.High school of Electrical and Computer Technologies - Vegova, Ljubljana, Technical Gymnasium
English, German, slovene
Github Skills (76)
bitly9
urlshortener8
autocomplete8
tinyurl7
lda7
lumen-framework7
compose7
sentiment-analysis7
nlp7
stanford-nlp7
ojs7
natural-language-processing7
sentiment7
similarity7
php7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
szitnik/SoftwareAnalysis
Feb 2013 - Mar 2013
Contributions:8 commits in 6 days
UL-FRI-Zitnik/NLP-Course-Tutorials
Mar 2021 - Mar 2023
Contributions:26 commits, 1 PR, 37 pushes in 2 years
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