Dijana Oreški is a data enthusiast with a doctorate from the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Organization and Informatics. She works as Associate Professor at the same faculty, teaching courses Knowledge discovery in data, Intelligent systems, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Intelligence in Business. Her professional interests lie at the intersection of machine learning & data science and social sciences. She has published a vast number of scientific papers in data science and machine learning, focusing on their application in education. A complete list of the papers can be found on her Google Scholar profile.

She has worked on numerous international and national projects. Some of the projects she is currently involved in are: “DIP2Future: Educational Programs, Qualifications Standards, and Occupational Standards Development in the field of ICT accordant with CROQF”, e-Schools: a comprehensive informatization of school operation processes and teaching processes aimed at the creation of digitally mature schools for the 21st century”. “Study4Career: Development of an integrated support for an early career development of Faculty of Organizations and Informatics students”, “Better Employability for Everyone with APEX”. Also, she is dedicated to the leading Croatian Science Foundation-funded project: “SIMON: Intelligent system for automatic selection of machine learning algorithms in social sciences”.