Featured / Current

2026–2027

Moral Red Lines — Catholic Moral Discernment and Red Lines in the Race Toward AGI

Current. I combine technical AI analysis with Catholic moral thought to examine human control, responsibility, dignity, and limits on what should be delegated to machines.
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2025–present

LLM Ethical Value Alignment

Current. I lead work on LLM value-alignment training and benchmarking, including a human-annotated benchmark of approximately 10,000 instructions across commonsense moral reasoning, deontology, justice, utilitarianism and virtue ethics, independently annotated by three annotators and prepared for open release through CLARIN.SI.
2025–2027

J6-60105 — Theology and Digitalization: Anthropological and Ethical Challenges

Current. Research in theology, philosophy, ethics, psychology and computer science on identity, embodiment, empathy, vulnerability, spirituality and moral agency in digital environments. The project develops ethical and theological accounts of these changes and guidance for human-centred technology.

Upcoming

Expected late 2026–2028

EQUAL-AI — STEM Skills for Inclusive & Industrial AI Adoption

Upcoming. EQUAL-AI proposes a European network of STEM Skills Foundries linking higher education, VET, industry, innovation infrastructure and entrepreneurship.

Other current collaborations

2024–2027

The Intersection of Virtue, Experience, and Digital Culture: Ethical and Theological Insights

Current collaboration. Research on the ethical and theological dimensions of AI-mediated digital culture, including virtue, identity, human dignity and relationships. The programme examines how digital technologies shape human experience and develops ethical and theological frameworks for engaging with digital life.
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2024–2027

GC-0002 — Large Language Models for Digital Humanities

Current collaboration. Research on large language models and language technologies for digital-humanities tasks, including OCR and the processing of complex Slovene cultural-heritage texts.
2022–2027

P2-0426 — Digital Transformation for Smart Public Governance

Current collaboration. Research programme addressing digital transformation and intelligent technologies for smart public governance.

Selected completed

Jan–Jun 2026

CARDIO-FL — Context-Aware Cardiac Monitoring with On-Device AI and Federated Learning

Completed. Developed a privacy-preserving cardiac-monitoring pipeline using wearable ECG, smartphone PPG, inertial context, on-device inference and federated learning.
2023

AgriAdapt — Energy-Efficient Agriculture Using UAVs and Real-Time Neural Network Adaptation

Completed. Developed a dynamic, resource-efficient machine-learning framework for UAV-based precision agriculture, including context-aware model adaptation, real-time weed detection and efficient deployment on resource-constrained platforms. The project later produced multiple publications and received the 2023 Agrobiznis Agro Hi-Tech 'Best idea' award.
2021–2024

J2-3047 — Context-Aware On-Device Approximate Computing

Research on context-aware adaptation and approximation for resource-constrained mobile and edge systems, contributing to work on runtime efficiency, mobile inference and adaptive computation.
2020–2021

N2-0136 — Bringing Resource Efficiency to Smartphones with Approximate Computing

Research on resource-efficient mobile computing and approximate computation, forming part of the technical foundation for later adaptive mobile-AI work.
2019

Embodied Conversational Agent with Avatar Interface

Developed an embodied avatar-based conversational agent with multimodal interaction and dialogue management for deployment as a virtual museum guide.
2017–2018

MULTICOLOR — Multispectral Imaging for Multi-Color Image Acquisition

Developed a multispectral imaging platform and processing pipeline for multi-channel acquisition with applications in cultural heritage, material characterization and environmental analysis.