Professor Nada Lavrač is a leading researcher at the Jožef Stefan Institute and Full Professor at the University of Nova Gorica , Slovenia. With over 40 years of experience in machine learning and data mining, she has made groundbreaking contributions to inductive logic programming, computational creativity, and biomedical data analysis. Her work spans applications in medicine, public health, bioinformatics, and industrial systems, with a focus on explainable AI and knowledge discovery. Head of ICT Programme at Jozef Stefan International Postgraduate School Principal researcher in EU projects H2020 FNS-Cloud and EMBEDDIA Author of 163-page monograph Representation Learning: Propositionalization and Embeddings (Springer, 2021) Research highlights include developing neuro-symbolic AI frameworks for conference scheduling, creating ontology-driven graph-based learning systems, and pioneering feature selection methods for high-dimensional biomedical datasets. Her work on tax2vec for taxonomy-based text classification has transformed short text analysis approaches. She has also led advancements in grapevine disease modeling using multi-omics data integration. Scientific accolades: 1984 national research excellence prize , 1997 Ambassador of Science of Slovenia , ECCAI Fellow (2007) , and Zois Recognition Award (2013) . Her citation metrics include 16,141 Google Scholar citations (h=54) and 4,622 WoS citations (h=31).


