Education
- PhD in Computer Science (Feb 2012 - Jan 2015)
University of Wolverhampton (UK)
Research Institute in Information and Language Processing, Research Group in Computational Linguistics.
Passed without corrections.
PhD thesis: "New Data-Driven Approaches to Text Simplification".
Director of Studies: Prof. Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton, UK), Supervisors: Dr. Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton, UK), Prof. Horacio Saggion (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain).
- MA in Natural Language Processing and Human Language Technologies (Sep 2009 - Jun 2011)
Erasmus Mundus International Masters. Universitat Autňnoma de Barcelona, Spain (2009-2010) and University of Wolverhampton, UK (2010-2011).
Graduated with distinction (18.7 out of 20).
Dissertation topic: “NLP methodology for investigating language change”.
Supervisor: Prof. Ruslan Mitkov (UK), Co–supervisor: Prof. Xavier Blanco (Spain).
- Dipl. Mathematician (BSc) (Sep 2003 - Mar 2009)
Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade (Serbia).
Graduated with distinction (9.64 out of 10).
Major: Computer Science.
Awards
- Best paper award at Student workshop held in conjunction with Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), Hissar, Bulgaria, September 7-13, 2013.
- 3rd prize for the best poster at 14th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing), Samos, Greece, March 24-30, 2013.
- Best students award from Eurobank EFG (2007)
- II prize at Federal (Yugoslavia) Competition in Mathematics (2003)
- III prize at Federal (Yugoslavia) Competition in Physics (2003)
Scholarships/Bursaries
- PhD Bursary, University of Wolverhampton, UK (2012-2015)
- Erasmus Mundus Scholarship for IM in NLP&HLT (2009-2011)
- DAAD scholarship for intensive German language course in Leipzig, Germany
(2009)
- Ministry of Sports and Education, Republic of Serbia (2005-2007)
- Ministry of Social and Children’s Welfare, Belgrade (2006)