Ivica Kostric
PhD Fellowship In Conversational Artificial Intelligence
Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolIvica Kostric is a PhD candidate and applied scientist specializing in conversational AI with 9 years of professional experience across data science and software engineering. Based at the University of Stavanger and a member of the iai-group, he combines academic research with applied work, including a recent Applied Scientist internship at Amazon and multi-year roles at Presight Solutions. His background spans from building production data products to research-driven conversational models, underpinned by an MSc in Applied Data Science and a BE in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Prior to tech, he spent nearly a decade as a professional poker player, a non-obvious experience that sharpened his probabilistic reasoning and decision-making under uncertainty. Ivica is focused on translating cutting-edge NLP research into practical, deployable systems that improve real-world interactions.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Stavanger (UiS)Applied Data Science, Master's degree Programme, Computer Science, A, Applied Data Science, Master's degree Programme, Computer Science, A at University of Stavanger
Croatian, English, Norwegian
Github Skills (1)
ios4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
IKostric/moviebot
Sep 2020 - Feb 2023
IAI MovieBot
Contributions:72 pushes, 34 branches in 2 years 5 months
python3
iai-group/MovieBot
Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
IAI MovieBot
Contributions:1 release, 248 reviews, 20 commits in 1 year 11 months
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