Researcher & Teaching Assistant
Laboratory for Data Science, University of Ljubljana
TA for Machine Learning for Data Science 1 in the Data Science master's programme.
2023 — present
I am a PhD student and teaching assistant at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, where I am a member of the Laboratory for Data Science, advised by Prof. Erik Štrumbelj. My research asks how people perceive and interpret visualizations of uncertainty, combining experimental design, user studies, and statistical analysis. I co-developed a general method for visualizing uncertainty in statistical graphics, published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, and I maintain its open-source Python implementation, bootplot.
Before the PhD, I completed an M.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Ljubljana with a thesis on cost-sensitive learning for click-through-rate prediction in online advertising (in collaboration with Teads), and worked as a software engineer at SRC d.o.o., building Java full-stack applications. I represent PhD students of the University of Ljubljana on the EUTOPIA Student Council.
Publications
A General Approach to Visualizing Uncertainty in Statistical Graphics
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2026
Position: Explainable AI Cannot Advance Without Better User Studies
ICML 2025, Position Paper Track — presented in Vancouver; preliminary uncertainty-visualization results at the WiML @ ICML 2025 poster session
Experience
Software Engineer
SRC d.o.o., Ljubljana
Java full-stack development: backend services, APIs, databases, and frontend components.
2021 — 2023
Web Developer
University of Maribor, Faculty of Arts
Hotel Slovenščina, an educational platform for Slovene language learning.
2020
Education
PhD, Uncertainty Visualization
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science
2023 — 2027 (exp.)
M.S., Mathematics & Computer Science
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Thesis: Optimizing Click-Through Rate in Online Advertising Using Cost-Sensitive Learning (10/10).
2020 — 2023
Erasmus+ Mathematics Exchange
University of Groningen, Faculty of Science and Engineering
2019
B.S., Mathematics
University of Maribor, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
2016 — 2020