Research Career
- 12/2016 − present Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
- 02/2015 − 12/2016 Researcher, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia. Technical project leader – H2020 project IN LIFE (http://inlife-project.eu)
- 10/2010 − 02/2015 Assistant Researcher, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia. Developing machine learning algorithms for human activity recognition and human energy expenditure estimation using wearable sensors, such as: accelerometers, heart-rate, etc.
Education
| 10/2011 − 01/2015 | PhD in Information and Communication Technologies |
| Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Ljubljana, Slovenia | |
| Thesis title: “Context-based Reasoning in Ambient Intelligence” | |
| GPA: 9.98 (out of 10) | |
| Supervisor: Prof. dr. Matjaž Gams Co-supervisor: Dr. Mitja Luštrek |
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| 10/2010 − 10/2011 | M.Sc. in Information and Communication Technologies, with Honours |
| Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Ljubljana, Slovenia | |
| Thesis title: “Adaptive Human Activity Recognition and Fall Detection using Wearable Sensors” | |
| GPA: 10 (out of 10) | |
| Supervisor: Prof. dr. Matjaž Gams | |
| 10/2006 − 09/2010 | B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, with Honours |
| Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia | |
| Thesis title: “Using heuristics for extraction of classification rules” | |
| GPA: 9.83 (out of 10) | |
| Supervisor: Prof. dr. Ivan Chorbev |
Honours and Awards
| 2016 | Best Young Scientist in Macedonia, award given by the President of Macedonia. |
| 2015 | Best Paper award at the European conference on Ambient Intelligence – AmI, for the paper “Person Identification by Analyzing Door Accelerations in Time and Frequency Domain”. |
| 2014 | Best Paper award at the 6th IPSSC for the paper “Recognizing Human Activities and Detecting Falls in Real-time”. Award for presenting scientific achievements with scientific quality and practical usage. |
| 2013 | First Place award at the International competition in Activity Recognition − EvAAL. Our real-time activity recognition and fall detection system achieved the absolute highest score at the competition (including the competitor’s scores from previous editions of the competition). |
| 2008 − 2010 | Three times award for exceptional effort and achievements at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, Skopje, Macedonia. |
| 2000 − 2006 | Active participant in many competitions in mathematics: – Bronze medal at the Macedonian Olympiad in Mathematics – Two times second award in national competitions in Mathematics – Two times third award in national competitions in Mathematics |
Research Experiences
| 01/2015 − present | Department of Intelligent Systems, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Developing a prototype tablet device for monitoring the user’s apartment and providing additional home security. |
| 10/2011 − 01/2015 | Department of Intelligent Systems, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Developing an algorithm for tourist trip route planning for the National project eTurist (https://www.e-turist.si/) |
| 10/2010 − 10/2011 | Department of Intelligent Systems, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Developing algorithms for activity recognition and fall detection using wearable location and inertial sensors, for the European FP7 project Confidence (http://dis.ijs.si/confidence/). |
| 06/2010 − 08/2010 | Department of Intelligent Systems, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia – Intern, Undergraduate Student – Research focused on human activity recognition using accelerometers |
| 10/2009 − 02/2010 | Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, Macedonia – Assistant lecturer for laboratory exercises for the course “Structural Programming” |
Bibliography (Summary)
- 10 scientific articles in international peer-reviewed journals
- 1 international patent application “Method and system for detecting a person driving a vehicle while using a mobile computing device” (United Kingdom patent office)
- 2 Slovenian national approved patents
- More than 30 scientific papers presented at international conferences
- more than 360 citations (Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LOpq5BoAAAAJ&hl=en)
Selected Publications
| [Journal] 2015 |
Gjoreski H, Kaluža B, Gams M, Milić R, Luštrek M. Context-based Ensemble Method for Human Energy Expenditure Estimation. Applied Soft Computing, December 2015, p.p. 960–970. |
| [Journal] 2015 |
Gjoreski H, Kozina S, Gams M, Luštrek M, Álvarez-García JA, Hong JH, Ramos J, Dey AK, Bocca M, Patwari N. Competitive Live Evaluation of Activity-recognition Systems. IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol:14, Issue: 1, pp. 70 – 77 (2015).. |
| [Journal] 2015 |
Luštrek M., Gjoreski H, Vega N. G., Kozina S., Cvetkovic B., Mirchevska V., Gams M. Fall detection using inertial sensors and accelerometers. IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol:14, Issue:4, pp. 72-79, (2015) |
| [Journal] 2014 |
Gjoreski H, Gams M, Luštrek M. Context-based fall detection and activity recognition using inertial and location sensors. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, vol. 6, no. 4, p.p. 419-433 (2014). |
| [Journal] 2013 |
Kozina S, Gjoreski H, Gams M, Luštrek M. Three-layer activity recognition combining domain knowledge and meta-classification. Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering, vol. 33, no. 4. (2013). |
| [Conference] 2015 |
Gjoreski H, R. Piltaver, M. Gams. Person Identification by Analyzing Door Accelerations in Time and Frequency Domain. 12th European Conference Ambient Intelligence, AmI, 2015, pp. 60-75. [BEST PAPER AWARD] |
| [Conference] 2014 |
Gjoreski H, Kozina S, Luštrek M and Gams M. Using multiple contexts to distinguish standing from sitting with a single accelerometer. European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI, (2014). |
| [Conference] 2013 |
Gjoreski H, Kaluža B, Gams M, Milić R, Luštrek M. Ensembles of multiple sensors for human energy expenditure estimation. In Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international joint conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing, UbiComp, p.p. 359–362, (2013). |
| [Conference] 2012 |
Gjoreski H, Luštrek M, Gams M. Context-based fall detection using inertial and location sensors. Lecture notes in computer science (LNCS 7683), Ambient Intelligence: Third International Joint Conference, AmI 2012. |
| [Conference] 2011 |
Gjoreski H, Luštrek M, Gams M. Accelerometer Placement for Posture Recognition and Fall Detection. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, IE, p.p. 47-54 (2011). |
Services
| Organization committee | Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School Student’s Conference, 2012 |
| Paper Review Committee | Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments (JAISE) |
| Professional Memberships | Slovenian Artificial Intelligence Society (SLAIS) Student member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Student member, American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) |
Languages
Macedonian (Native speaker)
English, Slovene (Fluent)
German (Basic)
Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian (Working knowledge)
Scholarships
| 2011 − 2014 | Scholarship for PhD students in Slovenia from abroad, awarded by the Slovene Human Resources Development and Scholarship Fund. |
| 2014 | Student scholarship, travel grant, for attendance of the European Conference in Artificial Intelligence ECAI, Prague, Czech Republic. |
| 2014 | Student scholarship, travel grant, for attendance of the ACM International Joint Conference On Pervasive And Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp, Seattle, USA. |
| 2010 − 2011 | Scholarship awarded by the Department of Intelligent Systems at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Slovenia for master studies. |
| 2007 − 2010 | Scholarship awarded by the Ministry of Education of Macedonia, which was given to the best 125 students with remarkable success in the studies. |
| 2002 − 2006 | State scholarship for high school students. |