{"id":2241,"date":"2025-03-21T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/?p=2241"},"modified":"2025-07-21T15:01:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:01:42","slug":"professor-marko-tkalcic-receives-up-gold-plaque-for-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/professor-marko-tkalcic-receives-up-gold-plaque-for-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Marko Tkal\u010di\u010d Receives UP Gold Plaque for 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During the 22nd UP Ceremonial Academy, held on 21 March 2025, Prof. Dr. Marko Tkal\u010di\u010d received the UP Gold Plaque for 2024, following the nomination by UP FAMNIT and UP IAM. The award recognizes his contribution to the development and visibility of the university in the field of intelligent systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/photo_2025-03-21_13-52-50-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/photo_2025-03-21_13-52-50-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/photo_2025-03-21_13-52-50-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/photo_2025-03-21_13-52-50-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/photo_2025-03-21_13-52-50.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/photo_2025-03-21_13-52-50-2-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/photo_2025-03-21_13-52-50-2-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/photo_2025-03-21_13-52-50-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/photo_2025-03-21_13-52-50-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/photo_2025-03-21_13-52-50-2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof. Tkal\u010di\u010d earned his PhD in 2011 at the University of Ljubljana and has been employed at UP since 2019. His research focuses on user modeling and recommender systems, with an emphasis on psychological models. He has contributed to international conferences such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.um.org\/umap2025\/\">UMAP<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/recsys.acm.org\/\">RecSys<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/iui.acm.org\/2025\/\">IUI<\/a>, and serves on the editorial board of the <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/journal\/11257\">UMUAI <\/a>journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"499\" src=\"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-21-163553-1024x499.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-21-163553-1024x499.png 1024w, https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-21-163553-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-21-163553-768x374.png 768w, https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-21-163553-1536x749.png 1536w, https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-21-163553.png 1908w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He is the coordinator of the Master\u2019s programme in Data Science at UP FAMNIT and the chair of the Commission for Quality Assurance of Doctoral Studies. He is also the co-author of two books and actively supports the development of academic publishing and research in his field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More details about this news can be found on the faculty website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.famnit.upr.si\/sl\/novice\/22-slavnostna-akade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UP FAMNIT News<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Follow HICUP Lab in its official channels for more updates:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>X (formerly Twitter) account:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HicupLab\">https:\/\/x.com\/HicupLab <\/a><br>Website:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/\">https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For feedback regarding our media content, you may contact our&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:michelle.fernando@famnit.upr.si\">Social media and web manager<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the 22nd UP Ceremonial Academy, held on 21 March 2025, Prof. Dr. Marko Tkal\u010di\u010d received the UP Gold Plaque&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-media","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2241"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2256,"href":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions\/2256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}