Slavko Žitnik
Associate Professor
Slovenia
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Top SchoolSlavko Žitnik is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Ljubljana with 13 years of experience spanning research, teaching and academic leadership. He holds a PhD in information retrieval and information extraction and has progressed from teaching assistant to vice dean for education and now associate professor, combining deep technical expertise with institutional governance. Active beyond the university, he chairs several national societies and advisory bodies—bridging language technology development, informatics community-building, and public electronic communications policy. His background includes industry internships and applied work in search, entity resolution and enterprise systems, giving him a practical bent alongside scholarly output. Notably, he helps steer both library and regulatory institutions in Slovenia, reflecting trust in his strategic judgment across academia and public sector.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Information Retrieval, Information Extraction from Text, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Information Retrieval, Information Extraction from Text at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information ScienceUniverzitetni diplomirani inženir računalništva in matematike, Interdisciplinarni študij računalništva in matematike, Univerzitetni diplomirani inženir računalništva in matematike, Interdisciplinarni študij računalništva in matematike at Faculty of Computer and Information Science and Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Uni. of Lj.High school of Electrical and Computer Technologies - Vegova, Ljubljana, Technical Gymnasium
English, German, slovene
Github Skills (69)
bitly9
autocomplete8
tinyurl7
lda7
lumen-framework7
compose7
sentiment-analysis7
nlp7
stanford-nlp7
ojs7
natural-language-processing7
sentiment7
similarity7
php7
shorturl6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
szitnik/SoftwareAnalysis
Feb 2013 - Mar 2013
Contributions:8 commits in 6 days
UL-FRI-Zitnik/NLP-Course-Tutorials
Mar 2021 - Mar 2023
Contributions:26 commits, 1 PR, 37 pushes in 2 years
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