Projects

Selected projects I lead or contribute to, spanning AI ethics and governance, adaptive intelligent systems, digital health, education and digital humanities.

Featured / Current

2026–2027

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

Principal Investigator · Future of Life Institute Religions Initiative

Featured / current. An international research and engagement initiative developing morally grounded red lines for advanced AI. The project integrates technical AI analysis with Catholic moral thought and theological anthropology, focusing on meaningful human control, moral agency, human dignity, work, relationships and responsibilities that must not be delegated to machines. Upcoming project events: Brussels / COMECE, 16 November 2026; Rome expert workshop, 26–27 November 2026.
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2025–2027

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

Institutional Principal Investigator for UL FRI · Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency

Current. Interdisciplinary research across theology, philosophy, ethics, psychology and computer science on how digitalization and AI reshape identity, embodiment, empathy, vulnerability, spirituality, relationality and moral agency. The project develops an ethical and theological anthropology for the digital age and practical guidance for human-centred technology.

Upcoming

Expected late 2026–2028

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

UL main contact · UL leads WP4: STEM Skills Foundries & AI infrastructure

Upcoming — expected to begin in late 2026. EQUAL-AI proposes a European network of STEM Skills Foundries linking higher education, VET, industry, innovation infrastructure and entrepreneurship. The University of Ljubljana is assigned leadership of WP4, focused on hands-on labs and access to AI infrastructure, with responsible and inclusive AI embedded in the skills pathway. Status wording should remain conservative until final grant formalities/status are publicly confirmed.

Other current collaborations

2024–2027

GC-0002 — Large Language Models for Digital Humanities

University of Ljubljana

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

University of Ljubljana research programme

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

Project Lead / Lead Partner · ENFIELD Innovation Scheme / European Union

Completed. Developed a privacy-preserving mobile cardiac-monitoring pipeline integrating wearable ECG, smartphone PPG and inertial context, on-device inference and federated learning. The project connected adaptive edge AI with real-world digital-health deployment.
2023

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

Principal Investigator · SMART4ALL / European Union

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

University of Ljubljana

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

University of Ljubljana

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

Principal Investigator · National Cultural Fund Administration, Romania

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

Principal Investigator · Transilvania University of Brașov

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