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Marko Robnik-Šikonja, Scientific Resume 04/2017
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Associate Professor of Computer and Information
Science, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer
and Information Science
University of Ljubljana, FRI, Večna pot 113, 1000
Ljubljana, Slovenia
+386 1 479 8241, Fax: +386 1 2419 350
https://www.fri.uni-lj.si/en/employees/markorobnik-sikonja
marko.robnik@fri.uni-lj.si
21 April 1970
Slovene
Subject: computer science
Technical areas: machine learning, data mining, language technologies
Application areas: medicine, pharmacology, finance, language
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1232-3320
Research statement:
Marko Robnik-Šikonja is interested in high quality open data science with perspective for practical
applications. To this aim, he connects his basic research areas with interdisciplinary applications. His
research interests are based on knowledge extraction from data and discovery of novel machine
learning methodology to capture insights otherwise hidden from human perception. He employs
artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, cognitive modeling, and natural language
processing.
Short professional biography:
Marko Robnik-Šikonja is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Informatics at University of
Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science
and Informatics from University of Ljubljana in 2001. His research interests span machine learning,
data mining, knowledge discovery in databases, cognitive modeling, natural language processing and
application of data mining techniques. His most notable scientific results concern feature evaluation,
ensemble learning, probabilistic modeling, cost-sensitive learning, and regression. He is (co)author of
approximately 90 scientific publications that were cited more than 2600 times according to Google
Scholar. He is author and maintainer of three open source R data mining packages.
Employment history:
2011 - present Associate Professor, Faculty of Computer Science and Informatics, University of
Ljubljana
2010-2012
Vice-Dean of Development, Faculty of Computer Science and Informatics,
University of Ljubljana
2004 - 2010
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Computer Science and Informatics, University of
Ljubljana
1997 – 2004
Assistant, Faculty of Computer Science and Informatics, University of Ljubljana
1994-1997
Junior Researcher, Faculty of Computer Science and Informatics, University of
Ljubljana
Education
2001
Ph.D in Computer Science, Faculty of Computer Science and Informatics, University of
Ljubljana
1997
M.Sc. in Computer Science and Informatics, Faculty of Computer Science and Informatics,
University of Ljubljana
1993
Awards
2015
Diploma in Computer Science, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of Ljubljana
The golden medal for outstanding merits in the development of scientific, educational or
artistic creation and to enhance the reputation of the University of Ljubljana
Grants
2017-2022
2017-2020
2015-2018
2016-2018
1999-2020
2001-2003
Quality of Slovene textbooks, coordinator of computer science part
New grammar of modern standard Slovene: resources and methods, coordinator of computer
science part
Upgrade of corpuses Gigafida, Kres, ccGigafida and ccKress, coordinator of computer
science part
Automatic detection and localization of ischemia by the use of data mining algorithms,
Bilateral Slovene-Serbian project, principal investigator
Member of the research programme Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems
which is one of the best Slovene research programmes
Cost sensitive intelligent data analysis
Services to the international research community in last five years
2017
Co-chair of ECML-PKDD journal track Machine Learning Journal, Data Mining and
Knowledge Discovery
2000-2016
European Conference on Machine Learning, ECML, Program Committee member
2012-2016
European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Program Committee member
2012, 2015
2014
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, AAAI, Program
Committee member
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM, Program Committee member
2015, 2016
Knowledge Discovery in Databases, KDD, Program Committee member
2011, 2013,
2016, 2017
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI, Program Committee
member
2011
International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML, Program Committee member
2014, 2015
Decision Science, Program Committee member
2016
Language Resources and Evaluation, Program Committee member
2014-present
Neurocomputing, reviewer
2014-present
Expert Systems with Applications, reviewer
2014-present
Advances in Data Analysis and Classification, reviewer
2015-present
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
2013-present
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, reviewer
2015-present
IEEE Intelligent Systems, reviewer
2015-present
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
2014-present
Advances in Data Analysis and Classification
2015-present
Journal of Applied Statistics, reviewer
2015-present
The Journal of Signal Processing Systems
2012
Encyclopedia of Bussines Analytics and Optimization, reviewer
2011-present
Artificial Intelligence, reviewer
2015-present
International Journal of Computer Mathematics, reviewer
2000-present
Machine Learning Journal, reviewer
2016
International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing
2016
Advances in Methodology and Statistics
2013
FWO-research foundation Flanders, evaluator
2011-present
Registered evaluation expert for the Slovene Quality Assurance Agency for Higher
Education (SQAA)
Editorial positions
2015-present
International Journal of Data Science (IJDS), Associate Editor
2016-present
Cogent Engineering, Editorial board member
2009-present
International Journal of Data Mining, Modelling and Management (IJDMMM),
Editorial board member
Slovenščina 2.0: empirical, applied and interdisciplinary research, Editorial board
member
2017-present
Recent university teaching
2010-present
Intelligent systems, 3 ECTS, 1st cycle
2010-present
Artificial Intelligence, 3 ECTS, 1st cycle
2010-present
Computational Complexity and Heuristic Programming, 6 ECTS, 1st cycle
2011-present
Algorithms, 6ECTS, 2nd cycle
2011-2013
Artificial Intelligence – Ensemble methods, 2 ECTS, 3rd cycle
2016-
Natural language processing, 6 ECTS, 2nd cycle
2004-
Mentorship:
BSc diplomas: 55
co-author of four textbooks, several hand-outs and software packages supporting
university teaching
Master theses: 10
PhD theses: 2
Professional activity (recent, selected)
President of Governing Board of University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information
2015Science (UL FRI)
2013-2016
President of UL FRI Quality Committee
2011-
Vice-president of programme council of Cognitive Science studies at UL
2013-
Member of UL FRI Curricular Committee, UL FRI Committee for Research Work and Doctoral
Studies, and UL Quality Committee
2012-
President of several expert evaluation groups for Slovenian Quality Assurance Agency for
Higher Education and registered evaluation expert
2015-
President of programme council of UL Centre for language resources and technologies
2013-
Member of Slovenian council of European language infrastructure CLARIN
2017-
Member of the Slovene government board for development of language resources and
technologies
ORIGINAL PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL CONTRIBUTIONS (selected, in last 5 years)
KRANJC, Janez, ORAČ, Roman, PODPEČAN, Vid, LAVRAČ, Nada, ROBNIK ŠIKONJA, Marko.
ClowdFlows : online workflows for distributed big data mining. FGCS, 2017, vol. 68, pp. 38-58
KRALJ, Jan, ROBNIK ŠIKONJA, Marko, LAVRAČ, Nada. HINMINE : heterogeneous information network
mining with information retrieval heuristics. Journal of intelligent information systems, 2017, vol. 33
BOHANEC, Marko, KLJAJIĆ BORŠTNAR, Mirjana, ROBNIK ŠIKONJA, Marko. Explaining machine
learning models in sales predictions. Expert systems with applications, 2017, vol. 71, pp. 416-428
VRAČAR, Petar, KONONENKO, Igor, ROBNIK ŠIKONJA, Marko. Obtaining structural descriptions of
building façades. Computer science and information systems, 2016, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 23-43
VALMARSKA, Anita, LAVRAČ, Nada, FÜRNKRANZ, Johannes, ROBNIK ŠIKONJA, Marko. Refinement
and selection heuristics in subgroup discovery and classification rule learning. Expert systems with
applications, 2017, vol. 81, pp. 147-162
ROBNIK ŠIKONJA, Marko. Data generators for learning systems based on RBF networks. IEEE
transactions on neural networks and learning systems, May 2016, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 926-938
ČUFAR, Andreja, MRHAR, Aleš, ROBNIK ŠIKONJA, Marko. Assessment of surveys for the management
of hospital clinical pharmacy services. Artificial intelligence in medicine, 2015, vol. 64, iss. 2, pp. 147158.
ŠTRUMBELJ, Erik, ROBNIK ŠIKONJA, Marko. Predictive power of fantasy sports data for soccer
forecasting. International journal of data mining, modelling and management, 2015, vol. 7, no. 2, pp.
154-163
PIČULIN, Matej, ROBNIK ŠIKONJA, Marko. Handling numeric attributes with ant colony based
classifier for medical decision making. Expert systems with applications, Nov. 2014, vol. 41, no. 16,
pp. 7524-7535
ROBNIK ŠIKONJA, Marko, ŠTRUMBELJ, Erik, KONONENKO, Igor. Efficiently explaining the predictions
of a probabilistic radial basis function classification network. Intelligent data analysis, 2013, vol. 17,
no. 5, pp. 791-802
ŠTRUMBELJ, Erik, VRAČAR, Petar, ROBNIK ŠIKONJA, Marko, DEŽMAN, Brane, ERČULJ, Frane. A decade
of Euroleague basketball : an analysis of trends and recent rule change effects. Journal of Human
Kinetics, 2013, vol. 38, pp. 183-189
KONONENKO, Igor, ŠTRUMBELJ, Erik, BOSNIĆ, Zoran, PEVEC, Darko, KUKAR, Matjaž, ROBNIK ŠIKONJA,
Marko. Explanation and reliability of individual predictions. Informatica, mar. 2013, vol. 37, no. 1, pp.
41-48
ROBNIK ŠIKONJA, Marko, KONONENKO, Igor, ŠTRUMBELJ, Erik. Quality of classification explanations
with PRBF. Neurocomputing, Nov. 2012, vol. 96, pp. 37-46
ORIGINAL PEER-REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTERS (selected, in last 5 years)
KRALJ, Jan, VALMARSKA, Anita, GRČAR, Miha, ROBNIK ŠIKONJA, Marko, LAVRAČ, Nada. Analysis of
text-enriched heterogeneous information networks. In: JAPKOWICZ, Nathalie, STEFANOWSKI, Jerzy
(Eds.). Big data analysis: new algorithms for a new society, Cham: Springer, 2016, pp. 115-139.
BOHANEC, Marko, KLJAJIĆ BORŠTNAR, Mirjana, ROBNIK ŠIKONJA, Marko. Integration of machine
learning insights into organizational learning: a case of B2B sales forecasting. V: D'ASCENZO, Fabrizio
et al. (Eds.), Blurring the boundaries through digital innovation: individual, organizational, and
societal challenges, Lecture notes in information systems and organisation, Cham: Springer, 2016, pp.
71-85
ROBNIK ŠIKONJA, Marko, ŠTRUMBELJ, Erik. Explaining predictive model decisions. In: WANG, John
(Ed.). Encyclopedia of business analytics and optimization. Hershey (PA): Business Science Reference:
IGI Global, 2014, vol. 2, pp. 909-918
ROBNIK ŠIKONJA, Marko, VANHOOF, Koen. Visual survey analysis in marketing. In: ZHANG, Qingyu,
SEGALL, Richard S., CAO, Mei (Eds.). Visual analytics and interactive technologies : data, text, and
web mining applications. Hershey (PA); New York: Information Science Reference: IGI Global, 2011,
pp. 151-168
ORIGINAL PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PAPERS (selected, in last 5 years)
KRALJ, Jan, ROBNIK ŠIKONJA, Marko, LAVRAČ, Nada. Heterogeneous network decomposition and
weighting with text mining heuristics. In: CECI, Michelangelo (Ed.). New frontiers in mining complex
patterns : 4th International Workshop, NFMCP 2015 held in conjunction with ECML-PKDD 2015
Porto, Portugal, September 7, 2015 : revised selected papers, (Lecture notes in computer science,
ISSN 0302-9743, Lecture notes in artificial intelligene, 9607). Springer, 2016, vol. 9607, str. 194-208.
ŠKVORC, Tadej, LAVRAČ, Nada, ROBNIK ŠIKONJA, Marko. Co-bidding graphs for constrained paper
clustering. V: MERNIK, Marjan (ur.), LEAL, José Paulo (ur.), OLIVEIRA, Hugo Gonçalo (ur.). 5th
Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies : SLATE'16, June 20-21, 2016, Maribor,
Slovenia, vol. 51. Wadern: Schloss Dagstuhl, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2016 , str. 1-13
KRALJ, Jan, VALMARSKA, Anita, ROBNIK ŠIKONJA, Marko, LAVRAČ, Nada. Mining text enriched
heterogeneous citation networks. In: CAO, Tru (Eds.). Advances in knowledge discovery and data
mining : 19th Pacific Asia Conference, PAKDD 2015, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, May 19 - 22, 2015.
part 2 : proceedindgs
VALMARSKA, Anita, MILJKOVIĆ, Dragana, LAVRAČ, Nada, ROBNIK ŠIKONJA, Marko. Towards multiview approach to Parkinson's disease quality of life data analysis. In: ECML-PKDD 2016, The European
Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Databases : 5th International
Workshop on New Frontiers in Mining Complex Patterns, 2016
VOLK MARKOVIČ, Petra, LAPTOŠ, Tomislav, ROBNIK ŠIKONJA, Marko, ČUFAR, Andreja. Evaluation of
drug and disease influence on occurrence of hyperkalemia : a data mining approach. In: CORNET,
Ronald (Ed.). Digital Healthcare Empowering Europeans : proceedings of MIE2015, (Studies in health
technology and informatics, IOS Press, 2015, pp. 1026-1027
BOHANEC, Marko, KLJAJIĆ BORŠTNAR, Mirjana, ROBNIK ŠIKONJA, Marko. Integration of machine
learning insights into organizational learning : a case of B2B sales forecasting. In: BONS, Roger et al.
(Eds.), eWellBeing : conference proceedings. Kranj: Moderna organizacija, 2015, pp. 338-352
BOHANEC, Marko, KLJAJIĆ BORŠTNAR, Mirjana, ROBNIK ŠIKONJA, Marko. Machine learning data set
analysis with visual simulation. In: 27th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics
and Cybernetics, Baden-Baden, Germany, August 3 - 8, 2015. KLJAJIĆ, Miroljub, LASKER, George Eric
(Eds.). Advances in simulation-based decision support & business intelligence : volume V. Tecumseh:
International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics, 2015, pp. 16-20
BOHANEC, Marko, KLJAJIĆ BORŠTNAR, Mirjana, ROBNIK ŠIKONJA, Marko. Modeling attributes for
forecasting B2B opportunities acquisition. In: DOUCEK, Petr, NOVAK, Aleš, PAAPE, Björn (Eds.).
Internationalization and cooperation : proceedings of the 34th International Conference on
Organizational Science Development. Kranj: Moderna organizacija, 2015, pp. 143-151
VALMARSKA, Anita, ROBNIK ŠIKONJA, Marko, LAVRAČ, Nada. Inverted heuristics in subgroup
discovery. In: MLADENIĆ, Dunja, GROBELNIK, Marko (Eds.). Data mining and data warehouses (SiKDD
2015) : proceedings of the 18th International Multiconference Information Society - IS 2015, October
5th, 2015, Ljubljana, Slovenia : volume E. Ljubljana: Institut Jožef Stefan, 2015
BOHANEC, Marko, KLJAJIĆ BORŠTNAR, Mirjana, ROBNIK ŠIKONJA, Marko. Feature subset selection for
B2B sales forecasting. IN: 13th International Symposium on Operational Research in Slovenia, Bled,
Slovenia, September 23-25, 2015. ZADNIK STIRN, Lidija et al. (Eds.), SOR '15 proceedings. Ljubljana:
Slovenian Society Informatika, Section for Operational Research, 2015, pp. 285-290
KONONENKO, Igor, ŠTRUMBELJ, Erik, BOSNIĆ, Zoran, PEVEC, Darko, KUKAR, Matjaž, ROBNIK ŠIKONJA,
Marko. Explanation and reliability of individual predictions : recent research by LKM. In: BOHANEC,
Marko et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th International Multiconference Information Society - IS
2012, October 8th-12th, 2012, volume A, Ljubljana: Institut Jožef Stefan, 2012
ROBNIK ŠIKONJA, Marko, LIKAS, Aristidis, CONSTANTINOPOULOS, Constantinos, KONONENKO, Igor,
ŠTRUMBELJ, Erik. Efficiently explaining decisions of probabilistic RBF classification networks. In:
DOBNIKAR, Andrej, LOTRIČ, Uroš, ŠTER, Branko (Eds.). Adaptive and natural computing algorithms :
10th international conference, ICANNGA 2011, Ljubljana, Slovenia, April 14-16, 2011 : proceedings,
Springer, 2011, part 1, pp. 169-179