Hi, I’m Ante. I work as a researcher in AI focused on conversational experience at Infobip.

Before my current role, I worked as a data scientist in the retail industry.

A lifetime ago, I did research in computational electromagnetics studying the effects of radio waves on human skin.

Experience

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2023 – now
Research Scientist
Infobip
Conversational, trustworthy and edge AI
2022 – 2023
Data Scientist
mStart
Sales analysis, recommender systems, and time-series forecasting
2019 – 2022
Research Assistant
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture
Research in human exposure to radio-frequency electromagnetic fields

Recent Writing

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Mar 2026 Ollama vs. llama.cpp vs. MLX with Qwen3.5 35B on Apple Silicon Mar 2026 Benchmarking the Semantic Scholar MCP Feb 2026 Semantic Scholar MCP: Academic Research Tools for Your AI Agent

Projects

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Algorithmic Trading in Python Modernized freeCodeCamp algorithmic trading course with yfinance, backtesting, and portfolio optimization. Updated Python code for S&P 500, momentum, and value strategies. Point Cloud Central Python notebooks for 3D point cloud processing: feature extraction, adaptive neighborhood selection, surface point detection, and mesh reconstruction from LiDAR and depth data. Normal Estimation Comparison of surface normal estimation methods for point clouds: PCA, weighted least squares, and B-spline smoothing. Python implementation with Jupyter notebooks.

Selected Publications

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Comparative Analysis of Modern Machine Learning Models for Retail Sales Forecasting arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.05941, 2025
Spatially Averaged Epithelial/Absorbed Power Density for Nonplanar Skin Models Exposed to Antenna at 10-90 GHz IEEE Access, 2024
Automatic Detection of Peak Spatial-Average Power Density on Nonplanar Body Models 2023 International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM), 2023