General info
Hello! I am Robert Sedovšek, a PhD student at the University of Ljubljana and a full-time continuously learning passionately curious enthusiast. I was born on 10th of october 1984 in Slovenj Gradcec, Slovenia. I live in my own appartment in Mežica [see coderoom].
Formal education
I attended elementary school in Mežica where I was rewarded for eight years of excellence. In 2003, after I successfully completed Gymnasium Ravne na Koroškem, I enrolled in the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engeneering, where I gratuated with honors on »Software development for game based mobile learning supported by eMapps« in the year 2008 under the supervision of doc. dr. Bojan Petek.
I am currently a third-year student of postgraduate study and I am being awarded with the Zois scholarship for gifted and talented. My area of interest are language technologies and natural language processing (NLP).
Software and technologies
- Storing amounts of data in: MySQL, Oracle, MsSQL;
- Prefer to code in PHP (CodeIgniter framework and Smarty template engine), familiar with others, too;
- Exchanging data in/with: XML, Ajax, jSON, CSV, Excel, etc;
- I operate systems: Windows (60%), MacOS (25%), Linux (15%);
- Established Apache web server & Samba file server for personal use;
- Wrote valid markup of documents in (X)HTML(5) and their style in CSS(3);
- Amazed at JavaScript ability & daily jQuery user;
- Pushing pixels, drawing vectors, done animations: Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash;
Work/Projects
I have working experiences as a freelance designer/developer & I work within Vigred (Praper d.o.o.) - a group of friends & a real team of computer enthusiast!
I prefer working in a team due to cooperation, which pumps through a team the energy, inspiration and knowledge of all individual members.
- Dynamic audio speech database design (in progress)
- Collaboration between Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering and RTV Radiotelevizija Slovenija, Slovenian national broadcaster. Design and development of dynamic database of Slovene spoken language with suitable metadata.
- Relax Turizem d.o.o. (in progress)
- Design and development of user interface. Email newsletter design. Internationalisation.
- Kolomon
- Internal web application of Environmental Agency of Repulic Slovenia (ARSO). Development of user interface for large data representation.
- imej.si : Preveri svojo domeno .si.
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Development of recommendation system for .si domains.
The system takes string or your Facebook data as an input and creates an array of suitable domains according to your query/profile. It also simultaneously acquires information of domain avaliability.
Developed for Arnes, in collaboration with LUNA\TWBA. - QFK (Quest for Knowledge) - Game Based Mobile Learning
- Collaboration with Dušan Omerčevič and LTFE. http://emapps.info/ STREP Funded under the European Commision`s FP6 IST Call4. Front and back-end development in PHP, MySQL, Javascript, etc.
- Animations & other commercial websites (advertising)
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Multiple animations ads (some can be viewed here: banners).
Product websites, brand building websites and Facebook applications for different companies, including BMW, Nissan, Nivea, Krka, NLB, Luna\TBWA, etc.
In collaboration with LUNA\TBWA. - sestavi.si
- Web shop – PHP code, MySQL databases, javascript/css/xhtml visualisation, XML data export/import, etc.
- Tina Maze website
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Website development: blog, fanshop, PayPal integration, etc.
In collaboration with LDesign. - foto.kompleks.si
- Co-founded photo portal foto.kompleks.si.
What I do
Besides having fun coding and doing things listed above, I shoot and I read a lot. Currently reading:
Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming,
Spoken Language Processing: A Guide to Theory, Algorithm and System Development,
The Smashing Book #2
and some others.
I am very interested in language technologies, which is the scientific field of my postgraduation study.
I love going to conferences and if or when I can - I share knowlede!
And this one really is worth mentioning - I use blank keyboard, Das Keyboard :).