Davorin Kopič

Head of Data Science at Zemanta

Davorin Kopič has a diverse work experience in various roles and industries. Davorin started their career as an intern in the IT department at F+U Group of Companies in 2012. Davorin then worked as an ambassador and residential advisor at the University of Sussex from 2013 to 2015, where they were responsible for giving campus tours, leading coach tours, and speaking at assemblies. In 2015, Kopič joined Zemanta, an Outbrain company, where they initially served as a data scientist and later became the head of data science. In this role, they led the team in developing machine learning solutions and processes, ensuring stability for over 1.5 million requests per second. Following Outbrain's acquisition of Zemanta in 2017, Kopič became the ML Platform and Zemanta DSP Data Science Group Lead at Outbrain. In addition to leading data science and machine learning efforts, they also played a key role in developing Outbrain's ML Platform, leading four teams responsible for various research and production tasks. The exact end dates for their roles at Outbrain and Zemanta are not provided in the information.

Davorin Kopič completed their education with a BSc in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Sussex between 2012 and 2015. Prior to that, they attended the Technical School Centre Nova Gorica from 2008 to 2012, where they obtained a degree as a Computer Science Technician. In terms of continuous learning, Davorin pursued additional studies in Machine Learning, Big Data, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence without specifying a specific degree or institution. Davorin also earned certifications in "Building a Data Science Team" from Coursera in April 2019 and "Structuring Machine Learning Projects" from Coursera in January 2019.

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  • Head of Data Science

    October, 2017 - present

  • Data Scientist

    July, 2015

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