dr. Erik Novak

Researcher in Artificial Intelligence

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I am a Researcher at the Department for Artificial Intelligence, Jozef Stefan Institute. My research interests are in NLP, more specifically, text documents and text stream analysis, (semi-)automatic data exploration, and text data visualization.

I am also a Teaching Assistant at the Jozef Stefan International Postgraduate School.

Latest Publications (see more)

Evaluating Open-Source Large Language Models for Synthetic Non-English Medical Data Generation Using Prompt-Based Techniques. L. Dolinar, E. Calcina, E. Novak. Informatica, 2025.

TARNet for the Classification of Time Series with Missing Values: A Strong Baseline. K. Buza, E. Novak. Acta Univ. Sapientiae, Informatica, 2024.

Exploring Kleefstra Syndrome Cohort Phenotype Characteristics: Prevalence Insights from Caregiver-Reported Outcomes. T. Zdolšek Draksler, A. Bouman, A. Guček, E. Novak, P. Burger, F. Colin, T. Kleefstra. European Journal of Medical Genetics, 2024.

Active Projects (see more)

PREPARE

June 2023 - Present | Horizon Europe

PREPARE aims at advancing rehabilitation care for patients with chronic non-communicable diseases. As rehabilitation is a complex, multifaceted, and highly personal process, we currently lack reliable patient stratification and outcome prediction tools. While big data approaches provide a path forward, existing data sets pose numerous challenges. These challenges can be overcome by combining advances in clinical research, socio-behavioral and public health research, data science, and advanced statistical and AI learning methods.

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