{"id":24834,"date":"2023-07-26T15:23:36","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T13:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pkp.si\/speaker\/prof-dr-blaz-zupan\/"},"modified":"2023-08-10T09:02:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T07:02:56","slug":"prof-dr-blaz-zupan","status":"publish","type":"arch_speaker","link":"https:\/\/pkp.akademija-finance.si\/en\/arch_speaker\/prof-dr-blaz-zupan\/","title":{"rendered":"prof. dr. Bla\u017e Zupan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Dr.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Bla\u017e Zupan researches and teaches artificial intelligence and machine learning at the University of Ljubljana and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">At the Faculty of Computer Science and Informatics (FRI) in Ljubljana, he leads a twenty-member bioinformatics laboratory, which, among other things, develops the world-famous software tool for machine learning Orange (https:\/\/orange.biolab.si).<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">He published his works in more than a hundred articles, which in total received more than ten thousand citations.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">He is the recipient of the Pooh Award for Innovation (2022), the Zois Award (2010), two Golden Plaques of the University of Ljubljana (2011, 2019), a Fulbright Scholarship (2013) and a six-time recipient of the title of best teacher awarded by FRI students (2008-2017<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">).<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">He was included in the list of the hundred most influential innovators of Central and Eastern Europe (2016) by the Financial Times and Google.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":24786,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"event_year":[260],"class_list":["post-24834","arch_speaker","type-arch_speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_year-260"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pkp.akademija-finance.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/arch_speaker\/24834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pkp.akademija-finance.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/arch_speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pkp.akademija-finance.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/arch_speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pkp.akademija-finance.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pkp.akademija-finance.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pkp.akademija-finance.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pkp.akademija-finance.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_year?post=24834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}