Focus Period Halmstad University 2026
Full Professor
Jozef Stefan International Postgraduate School (Slovenia)
Sašo Džeroski is Head of the Department of Knowledge Technologies at the Jozef Stefan Institute and full professor at the Jozef Stefan International Postgraduate School, both in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is a fellow of EurAI, the European Association of AI, in recognition of his “Pioneering Work in the field of AI”. He is a member of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts and a member of Academia Europea. He is past president and current vice-president of SLAIS, the Slovenian Artificial Intelligence Society.
His research interests focus on explainable machine learning, computational scientific discovery, and semantic technologies, all in the context of artificial intelligence for science. His group has developed machine learning methods that learn explainable models from complex data in the presence of domain knowledge: these include methods for multi-target prediction, semi-supervised and relational learning, and learning from data streams, as well as automated modelling of dynamical systems.
Professor Džeroski has lead (as coordinator) many national and international (EU-funded ) projects and has participated in many more. He is also the technical coordinator of the Slovenian Artificial Intelligence Factory. The work of Professor Džeroski has been extensively published and is highly cited: with more than 27000 citations and an h-index of 75 (in the GoogleScholar database), Professor Džeroski is the most frequently-cited computer scientist in Slovenia (according to the 2025 ranking by Research.com).