Biography
Marija Pokos Lukinec graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka in 2018, earning a master's degree in education in computer science and Italian language and literature. From 2018 to 2025, she taught computer science and Italian language in primary schools (Primary School San Nicolò in Rijeka, Primary School Šemovec, Primary School Cestica, and Primary School Veliki Bukovec). In 2023, she worked as an associate on the course Intelligent Systems at the Faculty of Organization and Informatics, University of Zagreb. Since 2025, she has been employed on the project Young Researchers' Career Development Project – Training New Doctoral Students and is pursuing a postgraduate doctoral program in Information Sciences. She works as a teaching assistant and is a member of the LOUISE laboratory, conducting research on artificial intelligence and machine learning in the field of education.
Publications
D. Vlahek, D. Oreški and M. Pokos Lukinec, "Learning from the features we ignore: a critical perspective on feature engineering and the role of feature learning in learning analytics," in IEEE Access, 2025, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3627304.
D. Oreški, M. Pokos Lukinec, "Evaluation of Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Predictive Process Mining in Education," WSEAS Transactions on Advances in Engineering Education, vol. 22, pp. 1-8, 2025, DOI:10.37394/232010.2025.22.1
M. Pokos Lukinec, D. Oreški, and D. Vlahek, “Sensitivity Analysis and Temporal Stability of Student Success Predictors based on Different Data Sources in Education,” in 16th International Conference on eLearning (ELEARNING2025), Belgrade, Serbia, 2025, pp. 58–67.
Full paper list: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Gpw4xXgAAAAJ&hl=hr&oi=sra
Projects
2025. – now: SIMON: Intelligent system for automatic selection of machine learning algorithms in social sciences, Croatian Science Foundation – Project Collaborator
2025. – now: AI2SEP: Developing Talents in Artificial Intelligence to Solve Disruptive Environmental Problems, Erasmus+ – Project Collaborator