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General Information

Full Name Sebastian Mežnar
Date of Birth 18th April 1997
Languages Slovenian, English, Italian

Education

  • 2019 - 2022
    Master's degree
    University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Ljubljana, Slovenia
    • Master's degree in computer science and mathematics with focus on courses related to machine learning and data science.
    • Helped as a tutor for CS and machine learning related subjects during third (extra) year.
    • Master's thesis from the field of deep learning and equation discovery with the title: ”Efficient generative model for algebraic expressions andequation discovery
  • 2016 - 2019
    Bachelor's degree
    University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, Ljubljana, Slovenia
    • Bachelor's degree in computer science and mathematics with a focus on courses related to machine learning, algorithms, and data science.
    • Bachelor's thesis from the field of machine learning with the title: ”Modeling the playstyle of a basketball team from spatial data”

Experience

  • Summer 2017
    Software engineer
    Actual I.T.
    • Programed different parts of a web application (JavaScript),
    • Build JSON schemes for validating API request and responses.
  • Summer 2017 ‑ 2019
    Software engineer
    Mercury Processing Services International
    • Developed parts of a mockup Android application (Android/Java),
    • Ported functionality between different versions of an Android application (Android/Java),
    • Made unit tests for various parts of a web application (C# & JavaScript),
    • Developed and improved parts of a web application (C# & JavaScript).
  • Mar 2020 ‑ Present
    Machine learning researcher
    Jožef Stefan Institute, Department of Knowledge Technologies
    • Developed machine learning algorithms for various tasks on graph (network) data,
    • Developed an approach for symbolic regression,
    • Wrote several papers on general ML tasks, graph (network) related ML tasks, and symbolic regression.

Honors and Awards

  • Notable
    • Gold award, 11th place, Vegovo tekmovanje 2015
    • 1st place in Slovenia, 256 place overall, Google Hash Code 2019
    • Dean's award for outstanding academic performance, FMF school year 2019/20
    • 8th place, Predicting Generalization in Deep Learning, NeurIPS 2020 competition
  • Other
    • Silver award, Vegovo tekmovanje 2008 ‑ 2019
    • Attendance, Univerzitetni Programerski Maraton (UPM) 2016, 2018, 2019
    • Attendance, Google Hash Code 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022

Skills

  • Programming: Python (main), Java (competent), C# (competent), Rust (basic), JavaScript (basic), R (basic), SQL (basic), ...
  • Writing: LATEX, Markdown, HTML
  • Libraries: SciPy, PyTorch, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, ...
  • Languages: Slovenian, English, Italian

Academic Interests

  • Machine learning
    • Representation learning
    • Geometric deep learning
    • Equation discovery/Symbolic regression
    • Deep learning
    • Computer vision
  • Data science
    • Data visualization
    • Data engineering
    • Data mining
    • Statistical analysis
  • Mathematics
    • Statistics
    • Graphs
    • Discrete mathematics
    • Optimization
  • Algorithms
    • Optimization
    • Data structures

Extracurricular Activity

  • Education
    • Volleyball coach, third rank 2015,
    • Zemanta Data Science Summer School 2022.
  • Extra experience
    • Building caretaker, Volley Club Portorož, Summer 2012 ‑ 2016,
    • Volleyball coach, Volley Club Portorož & Športno društvo Piran, Jun. 2015 ‑ Sep. 2016 & summer 2014,
    • Council member, Klub Študentov Občine Piran, Nov. 2018 ‑ Jan. 2022.
  • Free time
    • Volleyball: U18 national champion in the 2013/14 season with GO Volley,
    • Volleyball: Third division champions with Volley Club Portorož in 2015/16 season.