Igor Kononenko

Prof. Igor Kononenko serves as a Professor at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, where he heads the Laboratory for Cognitive Modeling and teaches core courses including Algorithms and Data Structures 1, Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Systems, and Machine Learning.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Ljubljana (1990)

Research Focus: His work centers on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Cognitive Modeling, with recent emphasis on explainable AI and prediction reliability. He has pioneered techniques in feature contribution explanation, graph-based data mining, and archetypal analysis for complex datasets, resulting in approximately 210 publications and 10 textbooks.

Publication Trends: Analysis of his 15 most recent articles reveals a decisive shift toward interpretable machine learning—particularly reliability estimation in data streams (2012-2014), graph mining for oceanographic/spatial data (2013-2019), and medical applications of explanation methods (2011-2018). His 2013-2016 work on archetypal analysis for multi-document summarization remains highly influential in NLP.

Research Leadership: As principal investigator, he secured major funding including:

• Two ARRS programmes on Artificial Intelligence (2009-2014, 2015-2020)
• EU's AGROIT project for farming efficiency (2014-2016)
• Bilateral projects on imbalanced data learning (2010-2011), bioinformatics for cancer classification (2014-2015), and disease dataset analysis (2020-2021)

Laboratory: The Laboratory for Cognitive Modeling under his direction drives innovation in AI theory and applications, with recent work spanning basketball analytics, coronary artery disease diagnostics, and hemodynamic simulation modeling.