Miha Grčar

Personal Information

• Name: Miha Grčar
• Born: March 2, 1979
• Nationality: Slovene
• Address: Department of Knowledge Technologies / E8, Jožef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Phone: +386 (0)1 477 3125
• E-mail: miha.grcar(at)ijs.si, mgrcar(at)gmail.com
• Web site: http://www.mihagrcar.org

Education

• 1998−2006 – Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
• 2007−present – Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Thesis

Grčar, M. (2006): Empirična evalvacija algoritmov za izbiranje s sodelovanjem [Empirical Evaluation of Collaborative Filtering Algorithms]. B.Sc. thesis, under the mentorship of Ivan Bratko and Dunja Mladenič, October 2006, Ljubljana, Slovenia. (pdf, ppt)

Internships

• August, September 1996 – Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, USA; under the mentorship of Zvonko Fazarinc
• July, August 1998 – Hewlett-Packard, Cupertino, USA; under the mentorship of Andrew Fitzhugh
• July, August 2005 – Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK; under the mentorship of Nataša Milić-Frayling

Work Experience

• November 1998−May 2000 – Hermes SoftLab, Ljubljana, Slovenia; in the role of a developer
• May 2000−March 2004 – While True, d.o.o., Kranj, Slovenia; in the role of a co-founder, the C.E.O., and a developer
• March 2004−present – Department of Knowledge Technologies, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia; in the role of a researcher, a developer, and a project leader

Competences

• Data mining, text mining, software mining
• Machine learning, ontology learning
• Recommender systems, collaborative filtering
• Information retrieval
• C++, C#, Microsoft Visual Studio
• Web services, software interoperability
• Microsoft SQL Server, databases
• Imaging, 2D graphics

Publications

To see the list of my publications, follow this link.

Projects

Coming soon …

Patent

Šarabon, N., Grčar, M., Strel, J. (2007): Postopek odvzema odtisa stopala ter izdelave obrisa slike in odtisa stopala. Urad RS za intelektualno lastnino, February 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia.