معرفی
Marko Toplak is a Researcher at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, serving as teaching assistant for Programming 1, Business Intelligence, and Introduction to Bioinformatics courses.
His research specializes in machine learning with emphasis on background knowledge integration for predictive modeling. He collaborates with Baylor College of Medicine analyzing Dictyostelium discoideum gene expression data and develops the Orange data mining toolkit with its Bioinformatics add-on using Python.
Currently leading ARRS projects J3-4513 (Role and applicability of circular RNA in liver cancer, 2022-2025) and L2-60154 (Explainable Foundation Models for Human Gene Expression, 2025-2027), he maintains active membership in the Bioinformatics Laboratory. His work bridges computational methods with biological applications across genomics and systems biology domains.
