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Publications

Piškorec M., Šmuc T., Šikić M., "Disentangling Sources of Influence in Online Social Networks", IEEE Access, Volume 7, (paper, arxiv).

Antulov-Fantulin N., Tolić D., Piškorec M., Ce Z., Vodenska I., "Inferring Short-Term Volatility Indicators from the Bitcoin Blockchain", Complex Networks and Their Applications VII: Proceedings of Complex Networks 2018, (paper, arxiv).

Piškorec M., Antulov-Fantulin N., Miholić I., Šmuc T., Šikić M., "Modeling Peer and External Influence in Online Social Networks: Case of 2013 Referendum in Croatia", Complex Networks and Their Applications VI: Proceedings of Complex Networks 2017, (paper, arxiv).

Brbić M., Piškorec M., Vidulin V., Kriško A., Šmuc T., Supek F., "The landscape of microbial phenotypic traits and associated genes", Nucleic Acids Research, (paper).

Brbić M., Piškorec M., Vidulin V., Kriško A., Šmuc T., Supek F., "Phenotype Inference from Text and Genomic Data", In Proceedings of ECML-PKDD 2017 Part III, (paper).

Piškorec M., Sluban B., Šmuc T., "MultiNets: Web-Based Multilayer Network Visualization", In Proceedings of ECML-PKDD 2017 Part III, (paper).

Piškorec M., Antulov-Fantulin N., Kralj-Novak P., Mozetič I., Grčar M., Vodenska I. and Šmuc T., "Cohesiveness in Financial News and its Relation to Market Volatility", Scientific Reports 4, (paper and preprint).

Piškorec M., Bošnjak M. and Šmuc T., "Meta-modeling Execution Times of RapidMiner Operators", Proceedings of the 3rd RapidMiner Community Meeting and Conference (RCOMM 2012), (paper).

Piškorec M., Antulov-Fantulin N., Ćurić J., Dragoljević O., Ivanac V. and Karlović L., "Computer vision system for the chess game reconstruction", Proceedings of the 34th International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics (MIPRO 2011), (paper).

Sović I., Antulov-Fantulin N., Čanadi I., Piškorec M. and Šikić M., "Parallel Protein Docking Tool", Proceedings of the 33rd International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics (MIPRO 2010), (paper and source code).

Editorial experience

Proceedings editor for the Discovery Science 2019 conference (Split, Croatia, September 2019).

Talks, conferences and schools

Summer School On Mining Big And Complex Data (Ohrid, Macedonia, September 2016).

ECML-PKDD 2015 (European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases) with talk and poster "MultiNets: Web-based multilayer network visualization" (poster and presentation).

NetSci 2015 (Network Science) with poster "Modeling peer and external influence in online social network" (poster).

ECCS 2014 (European Conference on Complex Systems) with talk "Cohesiveness in financial news and its relation to market volatility" (presentation) and an ignite talk "Modeling voting activity dynamics in social network during December 1st 2013 referendum in Croatia" (presentation).

ECCS 2013 (European Conference on Complex Systems) with talk "Quantifying the Impact of Cohesiveness in Financial News" (presentation).

School on Large Scale Problems in Machine Learning and Workshop on Common Concepts in Machine Learning and Statistical Physics (Trieste, Italy, August 2012) with poster "Meta-modelling Execution Time of Data Minning Algorithms" (poster).

Projects

DATACROSS (Advanced Methods and Technologies in Data Science and Cooperative Systems)

Machine Learning Algorithms For Insightful Analysis Of Complex Data Structures

Multiplex (Foundational Research on MULTI-level comPLEX networks and systems)

FOC (Forecasting Financial Crisis)

e-LICO (An e-Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research in Data Mining and Data-Intensive Science)

Teaching

Second International Summer School on Data Science (Split, Croatia, September 2017). My excercises on character-wise language modeling with multi-layer LSTMs are available here

First International Summer School on Data Science (Split, Croatia, September 2016). My excercises on feature selection and dimensionality reduction are available here

I am a teaching assistant on the "Machine Learning" course at the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, from spring semester 2012/2013. My excercises for the course are available here (in Croatian).

Seminars and theses

My seminars, undergraduate and master thesis from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, are available here and here.

"Statistical inference of exogenous and endogenous information propagation in social networks", PhD thesis, (2019), paper.

"Approximating marginal likelihood using a Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation", seminar, (2017), paper.

"Sentiment-specific Word Embeddings with Application for Sentiment Classification in Short Texts", seminar, (2016), paper.

"Frequentist and Bayesian approach to statistics", seminar, (2016), paper.

"Model selection on networks", postgraduate qualification exam, (2015), paper and presentation.

"Multiresolution analysis of macromolecular structures", master thesis, (2010), paper.

"Nova robusna metoda za QSAR analizu temeljena na multivarijantnoj regresiji i normi L1", Rector's Award seminar, (2010), paper (in Croatian).

"Programiranje na GPU procesorima uz pomoć CUDA arhitekture", seminar, (2009), paper (in Croatian).

"Identifikacija ključnih igrača u kompleksnim mrežama blogova", bachelor thesis, (2008), paper (in Croatian).

"Modeli rasta kompleksnih mreža", seminar, (2007), paper (in Croatian).

Other projects and activities

Web service for monitoring cryptocurrencies on Twitter. Result of ETH Crypto Datathon 2018.

Observable notebook for multivariate time series visualization. Result of Brainhack Zagreb 2018.

E-Mine Token Generator is a web service for creation and deployment of smart contracts on Ethereum network. Result of BIOTS 2018 hackathon.

Protraits is a web service for visualization and retrieval of microbial phenotypes automatically extracted from text.

MultiNets is a Javascript library for visualization of multilayer networks.

referendum2013.hr and sabor2015.hr are online survey applications based on Facebook Graph API.

Gitsift is a web-based visualization of over 119K Github repositories.

Web page that I made as a part of the FOC project.

I am a member of Society for Out of Frame Education that organizes science-related educational activites for high school students. One of our projects is Summer School of Science.

Music photography from back in my student days, as a member of KSET: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.