September 2026
Started a research internship at EPFL’s Visual Intelligence and Learning Lab (VILAB) through Summer@EPFL, working on multimodal foundation models, efficient visual tokenization, and generative modeling.
Started a research internship at EPFL’s Visual Intelligence and Learning Lab (VILAB) through Summer@EPFL, working on multimodal foundation models, efficient visual tokenization, and generative modeling.
Completed the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master in Artificial Intelligence with a 9.75/10.0 GPA, graduating cum laude. LinkedIn Post
Published XFeat Revisited: Reproducibility and Evaluation of a Lightweight Image Matcher in TMLR with a Reproducibility Certification.
Defended my master’s thesis at the University of Ljubljana with grade 10/10, presenting DeMeTer, a dense memory-based point tracker that achieved a 4.1% relative improvement in δavg over the strongest prior method while operating in real time. Master Thesis
Received the Best Poster Award in the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master in Artificial Intelligence for presenting my research on dense memory-based visual point tracking. Poster
Completed my Data Scientist internship at Microsoft, where I contributed to Code Copilot, an agentic AI system for enterprise code understanding and modernization. The system was subsequently used by thousands of engineers. LinkedIn Post
Won 1st place in the Programmed Art Competition organized by University College London and G-Research with a visualization of language-model bias using multidimensional random walks.
Joined Teads as an AI Scientist Intern to study click-through-rate scaling laws for a production Deep & Cross model using 13.5 million anonymized ad-interaction samples.
Published and presented Sarcasm Detection in a Less-Resourced Language at SCAI 2024, a study of cross-lingual sarcasm detection in Slovene that achieved an F1 score of 0.765.
Selected as one of 15 recipients of the full Erasmus Mundus scholarship and began the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master in Artificial Intelligence.
Received the University of Ljubljana Dean’s Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement, recognizing performance among the top 2% of students.
Graduated with a B.Sc. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Ljubljana with a 9.5/10.0 GPA and a thesis grade of 10/10. Bachelor Thesis