Dr. Adrej Kastrin
Researcher
University of Ljubljana
Faculty of Arts
Department of Psychology
Data Scientist
University of Ljubljana
Faculty of Medicine
Institute of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
email: andrej.kastrin@gmail.com
Education
2014-2015 PhD in Information Sciences, Faculty of Information Studies, Slovenia
Thesis topic: Classification and discretization of high-dimensional DNA datasets.
1998-2005 M.Sc in Psychology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Thesis topic: Statistical validation of Sensation Seeking Scale.
Working experiences
2016 - (ongoing) Data scientist, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics.
2010-2016 Teaching assistant, Faculty of information studies, Laboratory of data technologies.
2006-2010 Junior researcher fellowship, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Institute of Medical Genetics
Project participation
2015 - (ongoing) PRACE – Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe; 7. FP, European commision
2013-2016 Unravelling biological networks; Slovenian Research Agency, Slovenia
2009-2012 Co-authorsih network of Slovenian scholars: Theoretical analysis and visualization user interface development; Slovenian Research Agency, Slovenia
Integrative genomics in neurodegenerative disorders; Slovenian Research Agency, Slovenia
2009-2012 GENEPARK – Genomic biomarkers for Parkinson’s disease; 6. FP, European commision
2005-2008 Genomic approach to neurodegenerative diseases; Slovenian Research Agency, Slovenia
Teaching activities
2015-2016 Introduction to programming
2015-2016 Information systems
2008-2016 Multivariate analysis
2008-2012 Network analysis
2008-2012 Statistics (elementary and advanced)
Grants and awards
2016 Summer research fellowship, Massive data and supercomputing, PRACE – Partner- ship for Advanced Computing in Europe, 7. FP, European commision
2014-2016 Best paper award, GraphSM conference
2006-2010 Junior researcher fellowship, Slovenian Research Agency, Slovenia
Research interests
Computational statistics: Dimensionality reduction, data discretization Knowledge technologies: Literature-based discovery, question-answering
Network analysis: Analysis and modeling of knowledge networks, mining relational data, link prediction
Bibliography
Representative bibliography is available on the COBISS system. Please also refer to bibliography list on my homepage www.akastrin.si.