Slavko Žitnik is an assistant professor at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty for Computer and Information Science, Laboratory for Data Technologies. His research interests are related to databases, natural language processing, semantic Web, information retrieval, and information extraction. He is also teaching courses in natural language processing, web information extraction and retrieval, database design and management, and information systems and modeling. Internationally he actively cooperates with the Université Paris 1, Sorbonne, the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade (prof. Dražen Drašković), College of Education, University of South Florida (prof. Glenn Gordon Smith), and Harvard University, Department of Biomedical Informatics (prof. Marinka Žitnik). Apart from research projects in the fields of data science and natural language processing, he is actively engaged in professional projects with industry.
