dr Dražen Drašković

Dr Dražen Drašković is an associate professor at the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, in the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics. He received his doctorate from the same university in the field of intelligent software systems. In his research, Dražen studies the application of artificial intelligence techniques in software systems, machine learning, the analysis of large volumes of data, and the development of educational games for children. Before joining the university he worked at IBM in Germany, completed a professional internship at Google and worked at several Serbian IT companies.

He has been a consultant to several international organisations, including UNOPS, UNDP, UNICEF, GIZ and the WHO. He heads the laboratory for data analysis and applied artificial intelligence, which is a node of the European big data network. He is currently engaged on two European Horizon projects, two national projects and a number of commercial ones, the most important of which at present is the development of software for detecting and classifying hate speech (the “STOP” project with the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia).

He has also been successful in entrepreneurship, helping a number of student teams bring their software products to the regional or global market and build startup companies.