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City of Zagreb, Croatia
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  • Tripadvisor
    Senior Machine Learning Engineer
    Tripadvisor
    Aug 2024 - Current (1 year 7 months)
    Engineered and deployed a photo ranking service that selects primary images from a corpus of 300M+ images, optimizing for clickthrough rate across hotels, restaurants, and attractions.Developed an image quality pipeline including rotation correction and near-duplicate detection to ensure visual diversity across listings.Built image-text matching models for visual search and contributed to multimodal AI systems for image tagging.
  • Visage Technologies
    R&D Engineer
    Visage Technologies
    Apr 2023 - Aug 2024 (1 year 5 months)
    Embedded with Qualcomm, developing perception systems for autonomous driving.Built real-time vehicle detection and tracking models optimized for edge deployment.Implemented Active Learning pipeline using Monte Carlo dropout and normalizing flow density estimation, improving data selection efficiency and model uncertainty quantification.Led company-wide ML competence group, establishing training curriculum for 20+ engineers.
  • University Of Zagreb
    Researcher
    University Of Zagreb
    Apr 2019 - Apr 2023 (4 years 1 month)
    Created state-of-the-art methods for single image dehazing and single image rain removal based on mathematical modeling and unsupervised learningFocused on adapting non-smooth metrics for image degradation to be useable in deep learning, with special attention on reference-free metrics and adapting them for unsupervised learningAuthored one journal paper and four conference papers on various topics in the field of image restorationCooperated with an international team of researchers on a paper about high dynamic range image visualization
  • University Of Zagreb
    Teaching Assistant
    University Of Zagreb
    Apr 2019 - Apr 2023 (4 years 1 month)
    Taught Mathematical Analysis 1 and 2 at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and ComputingTaught Mathematics at Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry
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  • University Of Zagreb
    PhD in Computer Vision
    University Of Zagreb
    Apr 2019 - Jan 2023 (3 years 10 months)
    Title: Variational methods for restoration of images degraded by fog and rain
  • Technical University of Denmark
    Msc in Mathematical Modeling and Computation
    Technical University of Denmark
    Sep 2016 - Jul 2018 (1 year 11 months)
    Masters course focused on mathematical modeling, simulations and inverse problemsMsc thesis title: Modern mathematical approach to the inverse photonic nanojet problem
  • University Of Zagreb
    Bachelor of Mathematics
    University Of Zagreb
    Sep 2013 - Jul 2016 (2 years 11 months)
    Rectors award for work on paper "Numerical method for the problem of flow in a system of pipes"
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    Agentic AI powered dive log
    Aug 2025 - Dec 2025 (5 months)
    Built a Streamlit application that parses Garmin dive computer data and answers natural language queries about diving history using LLM function-calling. Supports statistical analysis and interactive visualizations.
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    Variational formulation of dark channel prior for single image dehazing
    Oct 2022
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    Unsupervised image dehazing using smooth approximation of dark channel prior
    Jan 2022
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    Hd-race: Spray-based local tone mapping operator
    Jan 2021
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    The p curve method for illumination estimation
    Jan 2020
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    Local gray world method for single image dehazing
    Jan 2020