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Basics

Name Davor Vukadin
Label PhD | Explainable AI Researcher at FER
Email davor.vukadin@fer.hr

Work

  • 2024.09 - Present

    Zagreb, Croatia

    Researcher
    FER
    Researching attribution methods in XAI, developing evaluation metrics, and assessing human-model alignment using LLM-based techniques.
  • 2024.01 - 2024.09

    Rijeka, Croatia

    Senior AI Engineer
    Elixirr Digital
    Developed monitoring systems for LLM drift, automated fine-tuning pipelines, and mentored students on NLP, LangChain, and LLMs during the Elixirr Digital summer academy.
  • 2022.07 - 2024.01

    Zagreb, Croatia

    Data Scientist
    ScanDoc AI d.o.o.
    Built OCR and segmentation models for identity documents and optimized transformer-based models using ONNX for production deployment.
  • 2020.11 - Present

    Zagreb, Croatia

    Data Scientist
    KVIKI MIC
    Led development of AI applications including multi-agent systems, chatbots, semantic search engines, explainable models, and forecasting tools for public and private sectors.
  • 2020.08 - 2022.07

    Zagreb, Croatia

    Researcher
    FER
    Focused on explainable AI and software bug prediction; introduced novel Transformer-based explanation techniques and taught courses on data science and programming.
  • 2019.10 - 2022.07

    Zagreb, Croatia

    Junior Data Scientist
    DataBlast d.o.o.
    Implemented resume parsers, job-matching models, ID document extraction systems, and forecasting models for national energy infrastructure.
  • 2019.08 - 2019.10

    Zagreb, Croatia

    Research Intern
    TakeLab FER
    Developed a news crawler system and used NLP for information extraction and summarization.
  • 2019.07 - 2019.09

    Zagreb, Croatia

    Research Intern
    Ericsson Nikola Tesla d.d.
    Built object recognition using DNNs on robotic arms and explored adversarial examples and misclassification reasoning.
  • 2018.07 - 2018.09

    Zagreb, Croatia

    Junior Python Developer
    Combis d.o.o.
    Developed scripts to manage firewall rules and user permissions via Ansible; built Django-based web interfaces.

Education

Volunteer

  • 2025.01 - 2025.01
    Workshop Facilitator
    Center for the Culture of Dialogue - CeKaDe Rijeka
    STEM workshop organisation for children living in suboptimal social and economic conditions