Erik Novak

Researcher in Artificial Intelligence

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Active Projects (see more)

PREPARE

June 2023 - Present | Horizon Europe

PREPARE is a Horizon Europe project aimed at improving the lives of people with chronic noncommunicable diseases by developing tools that enable patients and healthcare providers to select optimal therapy strategies. The project transforms rehabilitation through personalized care approaches, combining advances in clinical research, socio-behavioral science, data science, and AI methods to overcome challenges in patient stratification and outcome prediction.

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.

Semantic Prompting for Large Language Models in Biomedical Named Entity Recognition. E. Calcina, E. Novak, D. Mladenić. Proceedings of the Slovenian KDD conference, Ljubljana, 2025.

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

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Python

PyTorch

HuggingFace

Python Pandas

Numpy

Jupyter

NodeJS

React

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