Prof. Dr Vesna Pajic - CV

Contact info

Postal address: Nemanjina 6, 11080 Zemun, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia;
e-mail: svesna@agrif.bg.ac.rs, cipb@agrif.bg.ac.rs

Current positions

Assistant Professor at Departmant for Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Belgrade;
Head and founder of Center for data mining and bioinformatics at Faculty of Agriculture, University of Belgrade;
Professor at ITS school for Information Techologies, Zemun, Belgrade;
Teacher-mentor at Regional Center for Talents of Republic of Serbia.

Education

1998. received B.Sc. at Faculty of Mathematics, major: Numerical mathematics and optimization,
2010. received M.Sc. in Computer Science, master thesis "Finite state transducers for monitoring the web", at University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mathematics,
2012. received Ph.D. in Computer Science, doctoral thesis "Finte state models in information extraction", at University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mathematics.

Work experience

2003. - to date: University of Belgrade, Faculty of Agriculture; in the beginning as a Teaching Assistant, currently as an Assistant Professor for Mathematics and Computer Science, teaching several courses
2006. - to date: ITS school for information technologies, Zemun, Belgrade; as a teacher for several courses on programming and author and teacher for several e-learning courses
2011. - to date: Regional center for talented students, Zemun, Belgrade; as a teacher-mentor for mathematics
2001. - 2002. Energodata, Belgrade; as a programmer
1999. - 2000. BeoImpera, Belgrade; job position included technical support and data analysis
1998. - 1999. Atrax, Belgrade; job position included technical support, maintaining the company's database, data analysis etc.

Professional and research interests

• Programming
• Natural language processing, especially problems related to processing morphologically rich languages
• Processing data and texts in bioinformatics
• Information Extraction
• Data Mining
• Mathematical models and applications in natural sciences
• E-learning systems and methods

Additional notes

Vesna Pajic is an active member of Group for Human Language Technologies at University of Belgrade and Group for bioinformatics at Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade. Vesna Pajic has been active as a researcher on several former and current projects financed by Ministery of Science, Republic of Serbia. During her academic career, she supervised as a mentor several student's graduate thesis. She published several textbooks and workbooks for students. She is a member of the Editorial Board of several scientific journals. She is married and has three sons.

Bibliography

Doctoral dissertation

Vesna Pajic: Finite state models in information extraction, Doctoral dissertation, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mathematics, 2012.

Master thesis

Vesna Pajic (2010): Finite state transducers for monitoring the web. Master thesis, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mathematics, jun 2010.

Scientific papers

• Vesna Pajic, Gordana Pavlovic Lazetic, Dragana Dudic, Dragica Radovanovic and Jelena Kozoderovic: Integration of data in biosciences, In Proceedings of International Work-Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, 7.-9. April 2014, Granada, Spain
• Gordana Pavlovic Lazetic, Vesna Pajic, Nenad Mitic, Jovana Kovacevic and Milos Beljanski: Mining Associations for Organism Characteristics in Prokaryotes: an Integrative Approach, In Proceedings of International Work-Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, 7.-9. April 2014, Granada, Spain
• Rankovic-Vasic, Z., Pajic, V., Sivcev, B., Radovanovic, B., Atanackovic. Z., Lekic, N., Dzopalic, M.: Quality and Antioxidant Properties of Pinot Noir Grapevine Variety Under Agroecological Conditions of Vrsac in Serbia, Analele Universitatii din Craiova, seria Agricultura - Montanologie - Cadastru (Annals of the University of Craiova - Agriculture, Montanology, Cadastre Series) Vol. XLIII/1 2013
• Vesna Pajic, Gordana Pavlovic - Lazetic, Milos Beljanski, Bernd Brandt, Milos Pajic: Towards a Database for Genotype-Phenotype Association Research: Mining Data from Encyclopedia, International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, ISSN print: 1748-5673, Inderscience publisher, Vol.7 No.3 2013., pp. 196-213. Vesna Pajic, Dusko Vitas, Gordana Pavlovic-Lazetic, Milos Pajic: WebMonitoring Software System: Finite State Machines for Monitoring the Web, Computer Science and Information Systems, ISSN: 1820-0214, ComSIS consortium, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 1-23. (2013)
• Pajic, M., Urosevic, M., Pajic, V., zivkovic, M. and Mitrovic, D. 2013. The influence of training system and vine row structure on losses during mechanized harvest. Acta hort. (ISHS) 978:245-250, 2013.
• zivotic, L., Pajic, M., Rankovic-Vasic, Z., Pajic, V., Djordevic, A., Sivcev, B. And Atanackovic, Z. 2013. Correlation of grape yield and soil properties in two serbian locations: a gis based support technology. Acta Hort. (ISHS) 978:127-134
• Vesna Pajic, Stasa Vujicic Stankovic, Milos Pajic: Transducers for annotating meteorological data in weather reports in Serbian, InfoTEKA, Serabian University libraries association, ISSN:1450-9687, No. 13, 2 (December 2012), pp. 36-51
• Vesna Pajic, Milos Pajic i Stasa Vujicic Stankovic: Nov metod ekstrakcije informacija baziran na transduktorima, Casopis za informacione tehnologije i multimedijalne sisteme InfoM, 44/2012, Fakultet organizacionih nauka, Beograd, 2012. UDC 004.832.2:025.4
• Stasa Vujicic Stankovic and Vesna Pajic: Information Extraction from the Weather Reports in Serbian, First Balkan Conference in Informatics BCI 2012, Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing of Balkan Languages - CLoBL 2012, Editors: Z. Budimac, M. Ivanovic, M. Radovanovic, Novi Sad, Septembar 16-20, 2012, p. 105-109.
• Dragan Nikolic, Branislava Sivcev, Zorica Rankovic-Vasic, Vesna Pajic, Ivana Radojevic, Sasa Matijasevic, Zoran Beslic: Discriminative Analysis of Productive Properties of Promising Grapevine Hybrids (Vitis Vinifera L.), I International Symposium and XVII Scientific Conference od Agronomists of Republic of Srpska, March 19-22, 2012, Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Milos Pajic, Mirko Urosevic, Dragoljub Mitrovic, Vesna Pajic, Milovan Zivkovic: The Influence of Breeding Form and Row Structure of Vine on Losses During Mechanized Harvest, I International Workshop on Vineyard Mechanization and Grape and Wine Quality, Piacenza, Italy, 27-29 June, 2012, 44.
• Milan Drazic, Milos Pajic, Dusan Radojicic, Zorica Rankovic-Vasic, Vesna Pajic, Milos Stojanovic, Branislava Sivcev: The Fragmentation of Pruning Remains as a Factor of Quality and Speed of Composting Vines, I International Workshop on Vineyard Mechanization and Grape and Wine Quality, Piacenza, Italy, 27-29 June, 2012, 45.
• Ljubomir Zivotic, Milos Pajic, Zorica Rankovic-Vasic, Vesna Pajic, Aleksandar Djordevic, Branislava Sivcev, Zoran Atanackovic: Correlation of Grape Yield and Soil Properties in Two Sebian Locations: A GIS Based Support Technology, I International Workshop on Vineyard Mechanization and Grape and Wine Quality, Piacenza, Italy, 27-29 June, 2012, 46.
• Branislava Sivcev, Zorica Rankovic-Vasic, Ljubomir zivotic, Vesna Pajic, Zoran Atanackovic: Growing Rhine Riesling Variety in Conditions of Ecological Production in Serbia, 23rd International Scientific - Experts Congress on Agriculture and Food Industry, 27-29 September 2012, Izmir, Turkey.
• Vesna Pajic: Putting Encyclopaedia Knowledge into Structural Form: Finite State Transducers Approach. Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics 8(2):164, ISSN 1613-4516, (2011).
• Vesna Pajic, Gordana Pavlovic-Lazetic, Milos Pajic: Information Extraction from Semi-structured Resources: A Two-Phase Finite State Transducers Approach. Implementation and Application of Automata: Proceedings of 16th International Conference CIAA, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2011, Volume 6807/2011, 282-289.
• Sivcev Branislava, Rankovic-Vasic Zorica, Pajic Vesna, Radojevic I., Markovic Nebojsa, Atanackovic Zoran, Pajic Milos, Drazic Milan: The impact of grape variety and training system on quantity of prunning remains and possibilities of their utilization, Proceedings of 22nd International symposium "Food safety production", Trebinje, Bosnia and Hercegovina, 19-25 June, 2011, 338-340.
• Drazic Milan, Pajic Milos, Rankovic-Vasic Zorica, Negovanovic Nevenka, Urosevic Mirko, Pajic Vesna, Trajkovic Ivana: Energy potential of pruning residuse of orchards and vineyards, Proceedings of 22nd International symposium "Food safety production", Trebinje, Bosnia and Hercegovina, 19-25 June, 2011, 441-444 - Invited paper.
• Milos Pajic, Milan Drazic, Zorica Rankovic-Vasic, Gordana Stefanovic, Mirko Urosevic, Vesna Pajic, Milovan zivkovic : The influence of different fruit types, vine varieties and training systems on energy potential of pruning residues, "Synergy in the Technical Development of Agriculture and Food Industry - Sinergy 2011" Godollo, Hungary, 9-15 October, 2011, 1-5.
• Milos Pajic,, Zoran Dumanovic, Djuro Ercegovic, Mico Oljaca, Kosta Gligorevic, Vesna Pajic, Rade Radojevic, Djukan Vukic: Effects of processing meliorative tillage on soils with heavy mechanical type of composition, "Synergy in the Technical Development of Agriculture and Food Industry - Sinergy 2011" Godollo, Hungary, 9-15 October, 2011, 1-5.
• Milos Pajic, Sanjin Ivanovic, Mico Oljaca, Vesna Pajic, Rade Radojevic, Lazar Ruzicic: Uticaj razlicitih tipova kombajna za ubiranje kamilice na kvalitet ubiranja i visinu dobiti u proizvodnje kamilice, Poljoprivredna tehnika, Godina XXXVI, Broj 2, 2011, 43-51.
• Milos Pajic, Milan Drazic, Dusan Radojicic, Vesna Pajic, Zorica Rankovic-Vasic, Kosta Gligorevic, Ivan Zlatanovic: Mehanizovani postupci pripreme i obrade komposta od rezidbenih ostataka vocarsko-vinogradarske proizvodnje, Poljoprivredna tehnika, Godina XXXVI, Broj 4, 2011, 39-45.
• Branislava Sivcev, Zorica Rankovic-Vasic, Sasa Matijasevic, Dragoljub zunic, Vesna Pajic: Elements of grape quality of godominka variety, Book of Abstracts/22nd International Scientyfic-Expert Conference of Agriculture and Food Industry; Sarajevo, BiH, 2011, p.82.
• Ivana Radojevic, Dragan Nikolic, Tatjana Jovanovic-Cvetkovic, Vesna Pajic: The indicates of yield and grape qualiity of intraspecies grapevine hybrids developed at the centre of viticulture and enology in Nis, Book of Abstracts/22nd International Scientyfic-Expert Conference of Agriculture and Food Industry, Sarajevo, BiH, 2011, p. 79.
• Branislava Sivcev, Zorica Rankovic-Vasic, Vesna Pajic: Proizvodne i tehnoloske osobine klonova sorte burgundac crni (r4, 115, 667 i 828) u Republici Srbiji, XVI Medunarodno naucno-strucno savetovanje agronoma Republike Srpske "Prirodni resursi u funkciji razvoja poljoprivrede i ruralnog podrucja", Trebinje 22-25. mart, 2011, p. 163.
• Aleksandar Djordevic, Ljubomir zivotic, Branislava Sivcev, Vesna Pajic, Zorica Rankovic-Vasic, Dragica Radovanovic (2010). Assessment of the optimal number of observations in the study of vineyard soil (Rigosol), Proceedings of VIII International Terroir Congress, June 14th-18th, 2010, Soave, Italy.
• Branislava Sivcev, Dragica Radovanovic, Zorica Rankovic-Vasic, Svetlana Paunovic, Vesna satev, Vujovic D., Nikolic D., Dzopalic M. (2009): Karakteristike selekcionisanih varijeteta sorte Muskat hamburg. Zbornik sazetaka, XIV Medunarodno naucno-strucno savetovanje agronoma Republike Srpske, Trebinje.
• Vesna satev, Nicolas Nikolov (2008.): Using the Web as a Corpus for Extracting Abbreviations in the Serbian language, Proceedings of the Sixth Language Technologies Conference, October 16th-17th, 2008 : proceedings of the 11th International Multiconference Information Society - IS 2008, volume C, edited by Tomaz Erjavec, Jerneja zganec Gros. - Ljubljana : Institut "Jozef Stefan", 2008. - (Informacijska druzba, ISSN 1581-9973), p. 75-79.
• Zlatko Udovicic, Vesna satev (2007.): Mathematica and convergence, Proceedings of The first Central and Eastern European Conference on Computer Algebra and Dynamic Geometry Systems in Mathematics Education, University of Pecs, Pollack Mihaly Faculty of Engineering, Hungary, 20-23 June, 2007, p. 32-35.
• Cvetana Krstev, Dusko Vitas, Vesna satev (2006.): "TEI Encoding of Serbian Proverbs", in Computer Applications in Slavic Studies, Proceedings of Azbuky.Net International Conference and Workshop, 24-27 October 2005, Sofia, Bulgaria, eds. Anisava Miltenova et al, pp. 101-114, Institute of Literature, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2006.