Dr. Dunja Mladenic

J. Stefan Institute
Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

E-mail: Dunja.Mladenic@ijs.si

Dr. Dunja Mladenic works at the Department of Intelligent Systems of the J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia since 1987, first as an undergraduate student and since 1992 as a researcher. She graduated in Computer Science at Faculty of Information and Computer Science, University of Ljubljana and continued as a PhD student focused on Artificial Intelligence.

She got her MSc and PhD in Computer Science at University of Ljubljana in 1995 and 1998 respectively. Most of her research work is connected with the study and development of machine learning and data mining techniques and their application on real-world problems from different areas e.g., medicine, pharmacology, manufacturing, economy. Her current research focuses on using machine learning in data analysis, with particular interest in learning from Text and the Web including personal intelligent agents. She was visiting School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, as a visiting researcher in 1996-1997 and as a visiting faculty in 2000-2001. During the visits she cooperated on several research projects related to Text Mining: "Personal WebWatcher: using machine learning for better Web browsing", "WebWatcher", "CorpusBuilder: automatically building web search queries to construct language-specific corpora", "The World Wide Knowledge Base (Web->KB)", and also some projects related to Data Mining: "Data Mining on the market basket analysis", "Data Mining in Biomedicine on the AHRQ Bioterrorism".

Dunja Mladenic is coordinating EU Fifth RTD Framework Programme project "Data Mining and Decision Support for business competitiveness: A European virtual enterprise (Sol-Eu-Net)" involving 12 partners from 7 countries (2000-2002), inside which she is also responsible for the area of Development of an open information source on the Web including Text and Web Mining applications. She is management board member of EU IST project "The European Knowledge Discovery Network of Excellence (KDNet)" (2002-2004), and a responsible person at J.Stefan Institute for EU project "A Forum for the Exchange of European Knowledge Management Expertise (KMForum)" (responsible at IJS: Marko Grobelnik and Dunja Mladenic), (2001-2003) and a tow-partner RTD project "Natural Language Processing for Text Classification" for Microsoft Research, Ltd. (responsible: Dunja Mladenic and Marko Grobelnik), (2000-2002). She was recently involved in several other national research projects including: "Analysis of large text data-sets", "Development of Digital Publishing with Distance Learning Support", "Reflection in Machine Learning", "Slovenian Economy in Transition towards Market Economy".

She has published several papers in refereed conferences and journals. She has served in the program committee of different international conferences (e.g., International Conference on Machine Learning, SIAM Conference on Data Mining, International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery). She co-organized several international conferences and workshops including ICML-99 International Conference on Machine Learning, AWAMIDA-99 Conference on Analysis, Warehousing and Mining the data, SiKDD-2001 conference, Information Society Conferences (IS-1999, IS-2000, IS-2001), Workshop on Machine Learning in Text Data Analysis (at ICML-99) , KDD-2000 Workshop on Text Mining, IEEE ICDM-2001 Workshop on Text Mining TextDM-2001, ICML-2002 Workshop on Text Learning.

Languages: Slovenian, English and German