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Scientific interest:

• Intelligent tutoring systems

• Student modeling in intelligent tutoring systems

• E-learning

• Learning analytics

• Automatic, dynamic and adaptive courseware

Memberships

• IEEE Computer Society, Technical Committee on Learning Technology – IEEE TCLT

• IEEE Adaptive Instructional Systems Technical Advisory Group - IEEE AIS TAG

• IEEE Adaptive Instructional Systems Standards Working Group - IEEE AIS WG

• AI-Learn - Board of Advisors

• CEOS.PP External Advisory Committee Member - Porto, 2023

Invited speaker

• Cognitive Science of Learning Program Review, US, since 2015.

• NATO's Science and Technology Organization - "Assessment of Intelligent Tutoring System Technologies and Opportunities" (Human Factors and Medicine Panel HFM-237) - RTO Task Group Meeting, Bonn/Wachtberg, Germany, 7-11 April, 2014 - presentation - picture

Education

• PhD thesis - "Adaptive student's knowledge acquisition model in e-learning systems“, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, 2007 - 2012, Supervisor prof. PhD Slavomir Stankov

• MS thesis - "Evaluating educational influence of intelligent e-learning systems“, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, 2002 - 2007, Supervisor prof. PhD Slavomir Stankov

• graduate thesis - "Model tracing – a diagnostic technique of intelligent tutoring systems”, Faculty of Science, University of Split​, 1997 - 2001, Supervisor prof. PhD Slavomir Stankov

Work experience​

• Associate Professor, 2019-present, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Split, Croatia

• Vice Dean for Science, 2016-2018, Faculty of Science, University of Split, Croatia

• Assistant Professor, 2013-2019, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Split, Croatia

• Senior teaching/research assistant, 2012 - 2013, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Split, Croatia

• Teaching/research assistant, 2002 - 2012, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Split, Croatia

Projects​

• N00014-20-1-2066 „Enhancing Adaptive Courseware based on Natural Language Processing“, Office of Naval Research grant, 2020 - present, Principal Investigator 

• N00014-15-1-2789 „Adaptive Courseware based on Natural Language Processing (AC & NL Tutor)“, Office of Naval Research grant, 2015 - 2019, Principal Investigator 

• 177-0361994-1996 „Design and evaluation of intelligent e-learning systems“, scientific and research project​, 2007 - 2014 - collaborator

• TP-02/0177-01 "Web-oriented intelligent authoring shell", technological project, 2003 - 2005 - collaborator

• 177110 "Computational and didactical aspects of intelligent authoring tools in education“, scientific and research project​, 2002 - 2006, collaborator

Reviewer

• Journal of Educational Technology & Society – 2009 – 2016

• Computers & Education Journal – 2012, 2021 - present

• Journal of Computing and Information Technology - 2014 - present

• Education and Information Technologies Journal – 2015 – present

• International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education - 2017 - present

• Interactive Learning Environments - 2020

• IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies - 2022

• Artificial Intelligence Review - 2022

• Expert Systems with Application - 2023

Editorial and Program Board Member

• Editorial Board Member / Associate Editor for the International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education (ETHE) (since 2017)

• Symposium on Advanced Educational Technologies, part of International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM), Split, Croatia (since 2017)

• Program Board Member - International Conference on Adaptive Instructional Systems (AIS/HCI) (2020-2023)

• Review Editor for AI for Human Learning and Behavior Change in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence

• Co-editor for the Journal of Communications Software and Systems (since 2022)

• Associate Editor for the International Journal of Business Intelligence Research (IJBIR) (since 2023)

• Editorial Board Member for the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Business and Management (IJAIBM) (since 2024)

Acknowledgments and awards

• ​biographical profile inclusion in the 3rd Edition of "Who's Who in Croatia 2013" 

• biographical profile inclusion in the 10th Edition of "Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 2008-2009"

• biographical profile inclusion in the IBC “Top 100 Scientists” for the year 2008

• silver plaque "Josip Lončar" for outstanding master’s thesis, 2007