Ivan Kitanovski
Associate Professor
Skopje, Skopje Statistical Region, North Macedonia
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Top SchoolIvan Kitanovski is an associate professor of computer science and a hands-on tech advisor with nine years of professional experience bridging academic research and production software. He leads and contributes to applied AI projects for Earth observation, multimedia, and fairness-aware search, turning state-of-the-art models into usable tools such as the AiTLAS toolbox and open-source fair-ranking plugins. His background spans data science and engineering roles in industry—building recommendation and ETL systems, NLP pipelines, and crisis-management models for social media—alongside teaching and mentoring at multiple university levels. Ivan blends rigorous PhD-level research with pragmatic engineering, frequently shipping Dockerized Python and Java solutions for real-world problems. Based in Skopje, he has a proven track record of founding and leading small teams, and a subtle strength in translating complex ML research into operational software and datasets for practitioners.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Univerzitet 'Sv. Kiril i Metódij' vo Skopje
English, German, Serbian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (44)
earth-observation10
pytorch10
artificial-intelligence10
satellite-data10
exploratory10
classification10
image-classification10
geospatial10
segmentation10
predictive10
vision-transformer10
object-detection10
computer-vision10
satellite10
satellite-images10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ivankitanovski/internet-programiranje
Jan 2024 - Aug 2024
Contributions:23 reviews, 13 PRs, 21 pushes in 6 months
fair-search/fairsearch-fair-python
Feb 2019 - Jun 2019
Python library with the core algorithms used to do FA*IR ranking.
Contributions:1 release, 28 commits, 25 pushes in 3 months
python-librarypythonto-dorankingpython3
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