Ivan Dunđer, PhD
Assistant professor

Chair of Informatics

Office hours: Thursdays, from 14:00-15:30 h, room E-313

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Phone: +385-1-409-2321

Fax: +385-1-409-2438

Résumé

Assist. Prof. Dr. Ivan Dunđer holds a PhD, an MSc in Informatics, a BSc in Information Technology Engineering, is an assistant professor and a scientist. He was born in 1985 in Zagreb, Croatia. He is married to Ivana and father of Jakov, Dora, Ana and Karlo. His Croatian scientist identification number is 345536. He is a Senior Research Associate, employed as an assistant professor at the Department of Information and Communication Sciences at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. He is a Doctor of Science in the field of Information and Communication Sciences, branch of Information systems and informatology. He defended his PhD thesis entitled "Statistical machine translation system and computational domain adaptation" in 2015. He is scientifically and professionally committed to the fields of computational natural language processing, machine translation and evaluation, machine learning, data science, language and speech technologies, knowledge management, along with modelling and development of databases, applications and information systems. He has given many lectures and has presented papers at numerous international conferences with international peer-review and has specialised his scientific and professional skills by attending seminars, certified programs of education, public lectures, symposia and workshops throughout Croatia and abroad. He was awarded a faculty prize for academic excellence, received a doctoral scholarship and won an international project for young scientists. He actively participates in activities of scientific and professional associations, and speaks, besides Croatian, German, English and French as well.

Research and professional interests:

• computational natural language processing (NLP)
• machine translation and evaluation
• machine learning
• data science
• language technologies and resources
• speech technologies
• processing and management of knowledge
• modelling and development of databases, applications and information systems

Publications listed in the Croatian Research Information System (CroRIS)

Courses:

• Programming
• Advanced programming
• Algorithms and data structures
• Computational text and data analysis
• Machine learning
• Databases
• Data analysis and processing
• Information extraction through NLP and data visualisation

 currently not teaching:

• Machine translation
• Translation memories as translation tools
• Theory of syntax analysis and applications
• Computational grammar models
• Computer-assisted language learning