Matej Mertik
Matej Mertik, PhD (Computer Science), is an associate professor and head of the AI and Digital Technology study programes at Alma Mater Europaea University in Maribor. He received his PhD in computer science at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (FERI) at the University of Maribor. He has held a research position of Scientific Associate at CERN (European Organization for nuclear research) at Machine Protection and Electrical Integrity Group, Technology Department and a position of Visiting Scientist, where he developed data analysis and mining software for LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at TE-MPE-EE. His research areas focus on artificial intelligence, data mining, machine learning and open source technologies.