About

**This is an archive site.**

**My new website is http://helikoid.si**

Personal information

First and last name: Marinka Žitnik

Home address: Mali Lipoglav 4, 1293 Šmarje-Sap, Slovenia, Europe

Mobile: 0038651 240 590

E-mail: marinka AT zitnik DOT si

Date of birth: 23rd April 1989

Curriculum Vitae

Education

2012–2015 Graduate School

PhD student in Computer Science at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, Bioinformatics Laboratory.

2008–2012 College

University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science Ljubljana and Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Ljubljana.

A four year interdisciplinary university program (eight semesters of lectures, 6 months of Diploma thesis work), which leads to the degree University dipl. ing. of Computer Science and Mathematics. Graduated summa cum laude with average grade of 10.0/10.0.

2004–2008 Upper Secondary Education

Upper Secondary School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Ljubljana – Vegova. Passed General Matura Exam with outstanding achievement. Graduated summa cum laude with the highest possible grade on higher level (34 points/34 points) for all subjects — Golden Golden Matura candidate.

Publications

Please see Publications site at helikoid.si

Selected Activites during Undergraduate Study (until 2012)

*** Note: Only selected activites until 2012 are listed here. For up-to-date version see CV.

2012

• Preseren Award of University of Ljubljana for thesis “A Matrix Factorization Approach for Inference of Prediction Models from Heterogeneous Data Sources” (university news, faculty news, interview at Mladina, interview at RTVSLO Prvi Dnevnik, interview at Metina lista)
• Genomic data fusion at Computational Network Biology Research Group, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London, UK (November 2012)
• Data analysis at Charlie Boone Lab, Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (August–October 2012)
• JRS 2012 Data Mining Competition: 1st place (team from Faculty of Computer and Information Science Ljubljana (News: Faculty News, Official results).
• Demonstrator (Data Mining) at Faculty or Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana.
• Reviewer at JMLR, The Journal of Machine Learning Research.
• Department Editor at XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Magazine for Students.
• Research at Bioinformatics Laboratory at Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University Ljubljana.

2011

• Best Student Award 2011, University Of Ljubljana, Slovenia Best Student Award of University for overall performance in courses (News: University News, Faculty News).
• Google Anita Borg Scholarship Finalist 2011 (official Google Blog with published results, official Google Student Blog with published results) (News: Faculty News).
• Google Summer of Code 2011: Matrix Factorization Techniques for Data Mining for Orange – Data Mining Fruitful & Fun (News: Rac. novice, SIO, Finance).
• Work at Abito, MS Sharepoint 2010, project for Ministry ES – Investment Review.
• Demonstrator (Business Intelligence) at Faculty or Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana.
• Research at Bioinformatics Laboratory at Faculty of CIS, University Ljubljana.
• Demonstrator (Computer Science) at Faculty of Health, University Ljubljana (ctd. from 2010).
• Demonstrator (Programming and Algorithms, Programming 2) at Faculty or Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana.
• Presentation at Informativa, Biggest Slovenian Education, Scholarship and Employment Fair.
• Lecturing CCNA 4.0, Routing Protocols and Concepts (ctd. from 2010).
• Participation at Cisco Expo conference, Portoroz, Slovenia.

2010

• Demonstrator (CS) at Faculty of Health, University Ljubljana.
• Lecturing CCNA 4.0, Routing Protocols and Concepts.
• Lecturing CCNA 4.0, Networking For Home And Small Business.
• Sloskills, national competition for EuroSkills (1st place).
• EuroSkills, european competition, category Informatics (Lisbona, dec. 2010): two silver medals: PM Specialist and Informatics ICT Team.
• Work at Abito, e-learning Computer Communication and Networks.
• Work at Abito, interactive LMS for Police.
• Work at ZOTKS, organization of National Competition of Chemistry.
• Demonstrator (Programming and Algorithms, Programming 2) at Faculty or Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana.
• participation at Slovenia Nokia App Forum (mobile app development MobiFoto), developing mobile app MobiFoto in Qt Symbian.
  
• participation at Cisco Expo conference, Portoroz, Slovenia.

2009

• Lecturing CCNA 4.1, Working at a Small-to-Medium Business or ISP.
• Lecturing CCNA 4.0, Networking For Home And Small Business.
• Work at Abito; e-learning Computer Communication and Networks.
• Summer work at HERMES SoftLab; National Information System for Health Centers.
• Pre-summer work at Avtenta.si; MOSS 2007.
• Imagine Cup (Team: ByteWarriors, Project: I See You Know), 3rd place at national competition at NT conference in May 2009.
• SharePoint deep dive education (U2U course).
• Participation at Swiss Talent Forum, oriented in Energy Challenge (10 workshops with Nobel laureates, managers, politicians).
• Participation at Cisco Expo conference, Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenia.
  

2008

• Participation at the 20th International Olympiad in Informatics, held in Cairo, Egypt, as guest
• Completing Final Examination of Upper Secondary Education with distinction and the highest number of points possible (34).
• Slovenian representative at the first NetRiders competition, organized by Cisco Systems, Inc.
• Participation at the summer school of computer science, organized by Hermes SoftLab entitled Development of Games on Gaming Platform.
• Summer work at Avtenta.si; MOSS 2007 and WWF.
• Participation at Cisco Expo conference, Bled, Slovenia.

• National competitions – gold medals: Mathematics, History, Physics, Mother Language.
  

2007

• Slovenian representative at the 19th European Union Young Scientists Contest in Valencia, Spain, organized by European Commission.
• Competition with a prize: Excursion to Italy (Milan, Rome, Naples) and Germany (HP Centre in Böblingen, Stuttgart). Awarded a golden medal at the Competition of Young Researchers of Slovenia, organized by the Union of Technical Culture of Slovenia.
• Participation at the summer school of computer science, organized by Hermes SoftLab entitled Sports Club HSL on Web.
• Participation at Cisco Expo conference, Bled, Slovenia.

• National competitions – gold medals: Mathematics, Physics, Mother Language, German Language, English language.

2006

• Winner of the year 2006. Awarded two golden medals at the Competition in Chemistry for the knowledge in chemistry and research in chemistry.
• International cooperation JSW (Germany-Slovenia) (Telecommunications)

• National competitions – gold medals: Mathematics, Physics, Mother Language, History, Chemistry.