CV
DR. INNA NOVALIJA
CURRENT POSITION
01/2021 Senior researcher/Expert Advisor
Department for Artificial Intelligence, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
- Leading research and development tasks in international and national projects.
- Supervising and leading MA and PhD students.
- Presenting research achievements at international events.
- Working on applying text analysis techniques for modelling and forecasting.
- Working on data mining in data science, big data and artificial intelligence domains.
- Working on proposal preparations for research grants.
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
01/2012 – 01/2021 Postdoctoral researcher/Expert Advisor
09/2019 – 09/2020 Parental leave
11/2014 – 11/2015 Parental leave
10/2007 – 12/2011 PhD student
Department for Artificial Intelligence, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
- Working on techniques and methodologies for ontology extension and ontology application for news analysis in business domain.
- Working on reflecting knowledge diversity.
- Working on semantic applications in transportation domain.
- Reviewing for national and international journals and conferences.
EDUCATION
2007 – 2011 PhD in Computer Science Title: Ontology Extension Using Text Mining for News Analysis Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Slovenia
2005 – 2007 Master of Arts in Economics Central European University (Budapest, Hungary)
2003 – 2005 Master of “Intellectual Systems Decision Making“ National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy(Kyiv, Ukraine)
1999 – 2003 Bachelor of Computer Science with honours National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy(Kyiv, Ukraine)
INTERNSHIPS
11/2012 – 03/2013 Visiting Researcher
Knowledge Media Institute, the Open University, UK
Working in the area of Semantic Technologies and Semantic Web with Prof. John Domingue, Dr. Carlos Pedrinaci et al.
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
1999 Gratitude from the Kyiv City State Administration for Considerable Personal Contribution to Creation of Spiritual and Material Values and Achievement of High Skills in Professional Activities, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2000 Grant for the best knowledge of Ukrainian language at the Department of Computer Science, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2005 Open Society Foundation scholarship for Economics studies, Budapest, Hungary.
2007 Ad Futura scholarship for doctorate studies of foreign citizens in Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
DEVELOPED METHODOLOGIES AND TOOLS
OntoPlus (http://ailab.ijs.si/tools/ontoplus) – methodology & software for ontology extension based on content, structure and co-occurrence
DataBench observatory (http://databenchobservatory.ijs.si) – DataBench popularity index, methodology & software for obtaining and visualizing popularity of concepts, tools and technologies in the area of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence.
Data Science Jobs Portal – dashboard representing job posts data around Europe in data science domain.
Learning Analytics Tool for VideoLectures.NET – dashboard with learning analytics metrics and visualizations for VideoLecturNET portal.
MAJOR COLLABORATIONS
International Development Projects
from 2021 European Statistics Awards (https://statistics-awards.eu) Organization of European Statistics Awards competition under the patronage of EUROSTAT
International Research Projects
from 2021 ODEUROPA project (https://odeuropa.eu/) Negotiating Olfactory and Sensory Experiences in Cultural Heritage Practice and Research
from 2021 STAR project (https://star-ai.eu) Safe and Trusted Human Centric Artificial Intelligence in Future Manufacturing Lines
2018 – 2020 DATABENCH project (https://www.databench.eu) Evidence Based Big Data Benchmarking to Improve Business Performance
2018 – 2019 Smart Statistics project
2017 – 2019 EUBUSINESSGRAPH project (https://www.eubusinessgraph.eu) Enabling the European Business Graph for Innovative Data Products and Services
2015 – 2017 EDSA project (https://edsa-project.eu) European Data Science Academy
2013 – 2016 Symphony project (http://projectsymphony.eu) Orchestrating Information Technologies and Global Systems Science for Policy Design and Regulation of a Resilient and Sustainable Global Economy
2010 – 2013 RENDER project (http://render-project.eu) Reflecting Knowledge Diversity
2008 – 2011 ACTIVE project Enabling the Knowledge Powered Enterprise
2008 – 2011 EURIDICE project European Inter-Disciplinary Research on Intelligent Cargo for Efficient, Safe and Environment-friendly Logistics