Sašo Karakatič
Associate Professor
Slovenia
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Top SchoolSašo Karakatič is an Associate Professor and experienced machine learning engineer with nine years applying data mining and ML across academia and applied projects at the University of Maribor. He develops end-to-end models and production-ready implementations using Python (TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn), R, Java (Deeplearning4j), Spark and MongoDB, and has practical experience in web and mobile stacks. Holding a PhD in Computer Science, he combines rigorous research with hands-on engineering—teaching, supervising and deploying ML solutions in research labs and courses. Notably, his toolkit spans both NLP (spaCy, NLTK) and model interpretability/production libraries (xgboost, bokeh), reflecting a focus on usable, explainable analytics rather than pure theory. Based in Slovenia, he bridges academic research and real-world systems, often translating complex algorithms into maintainable code and classroom-ready material.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Univerza v MariboruHighschool graduate, Highschool graduate at Gimnazija Murska Sobota
English, Croatian, Slovenian, German, Serbian, Spanish
Github Skills (16)
feature-selection9
evolutionary-algorithms9
sampling9
swarm-intelligence9
placement9
genetic-algorithm9
preprocessing8
evolutionary8
python7
gurobi6
machine-learning6
feature-engineering6
data-science5
algorithms5
data-preprocessing3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
karakatic/EvoPreprocess
Jul 2019 - Jan 2022
A Python Toolkit for Data Preprocessing with Evolutionary and Nature-Inspired Algorithms.
Contributions:8 releases, 19 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 6 months
nature-inspired-algorithmspythondata-preprocessingdata-scienceevolutionary-algorithms
karakatic/DynSelection
Jul 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:2 pushes in 7 months
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