Prof. Dr. Dunja Mladenić works as a senior researcher and a project leader at Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia, leading Department for Artificial Intelligence and teaching at Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School, University of Ljubljana and University of Zagreb. She is an expert on study and development of Machine Learning, Text Mining, Semantic Technology, Sensor Data Analysis, Internet of Things and Data Science techniques and their application on real-world problems. She was a visiting researcher at School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA in 1996-1997 and in 2000-2001. She is a co-inventor on a patent application with Cycorp Inc., USA, she co-authored a number of scientific papers, co-edited several books, she served on program committees of a number of international conferences and organized international scientific events. From 2013-2017 she served on the Scientific Council of Jožef Stefan Institute acting as a vice president in 2015-2017. She serves one the Executive board of Slovenian Artificial Intelligence Society SLAIS (as a president of SLAIS 2010-2014) and on the Advisory board of ACM Slovenija.

She is a member of OECD Network of Experts on AI (ONE AI). She has experience in coordinating EU projects and participating in the proposal evaluation with EC including ERC panels, Finish Science Academy, Swedish Research Council, Science Foundation Ireland and USA National Science Foundation.