- The invisible guardians let Alvin pass, and as Diaspar lay spread out beneath him, he know that he had come home. However much the universe and its mysteries might call him, this was where he was born and where he belonged. It would never satisfy him, yes always he would return. He had gone half-way across the Galaxy to learn this simple truth. -

"The City and the stars" - Arthur C. Clark

Welcome to my home page

I am an assistant professor in Computer Science at the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering (ФИНКИ), the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje.

My research interests are in the areas of Statistical Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms and Data Structures, Parallel Algorithms.

Considerable amount of time I spend on developing and implementing new NLP algorithms used in news aggregators, more specifically for the Macedonian news aggregator TIME.mk, whose engine is also running srb.TIME.mk, cro.TIME.mk, TIME.al, bg.TIME.mk and TIMES.si.

Also, I work on improvements of SEGS (Search for Enriched Gene Sets), a web tool for descriptive analysis of microarray data. I developed SEGS as part of my PhD thesis Functional Interpretation of Gene Expression Data.

Starting from 2010, I work on development of NLP tools for processing macedonian language texts, like large monolingual corpus (1 billion words), parallel macedonian - english corpus (1 million sentences) and creation of macedonian semantic lexicon (macedonian WordNet).

My complete Curriculum Vitae can be found here.

Academic/Industry Experience

• 2011 – present, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia.
• 2010 – 2011, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia.
• 2008 – 2010, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, New York University Skopje, Skopje, Macedonia.
• May – Sep 2008, Software Engineer at Google Switzerland GmbH, Zurich, Switzerland.
• Jun – Sep 2007, Software Engineer at Google Inc., Mountain View, California, USA.
• 2005 – 2007, Research Assistant at the Department of Knowledge Technologies, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• 2004 – 2005, Software Engineer at T-Mobile Macedonia, Skopje, Macedonia
• 2002 – 2003, Research and Teaching Assistant at the Department for Simulation of Large Systems, IPVS, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

Academic Qualifications

• 2005 – 2007, PhD in Computer Science, Department of Knowledge Technologies, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• 2003 – 2004, MSc in Computer Science, Department of Computational Biology and Applied Algorithmics, Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany.
• 1997 – 2001, BSc in Computer Science, Institute of Informatics, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, St. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia.

Contact Information 

Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering,
1000 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia 

Phone: +389-70-305-583

Email: admin@time.mk