Nina Žižakić
Machine Learning Engineer at In The Pocket
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolNina Žižakić is a Machine Learning Engineer based in Ghent with eight years of experience bridging academic research and production ML. She holds a PhD in machine learning for computer vision and has applied unsupervised deep learning to biomedical imaging, virtual art restoration, and explainable skin lesion detection before moving to industry at In The Pocket. Comfortable with both research and engineering, she has supervised master students, taught AI tutorials, and maintained research infrastructure while shipping models and pipelines for real-world use. Early software roles in backend and Android development give her a pragmatic, full-stack sensibility, and her top academic grades hint at strong mathematical rigor underpinning her work. An intriguing thread through her career is applying cutting-edge computer vision methods to cultural heritage and life sciences, signaling a talent for cross-disciplinary problem solving.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Student exchange, Computer Science, Student exchange, Computer Science at Paderborn UniversityBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 9.96/10.0, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 9.96/10.0 at University of Novi Sad, Faculty of SciencesGymnasium "Jovan Jovanović Zmaj" Novi SadDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine learning for computer vision, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine learning for computer vision at UGent
Serbian, English, French, German, Dutch
Github Skills (73)
prediction-model10
markov-random-field10
markov10
lidar10
hidden-markov-model10
markov-chain9
statsmodels9
stochastic-processes9
python9
pls9
statistical-inference9
jupyter-notebook9
bounding-box8
deep-learning8
inpainting8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nimpy/local-img-descr-ae
Nov 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:82 commits, 81 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
nimpy/learned-sift
Oct 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:44 commits, 41 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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