Preprints

1. Poličar, Zupan, "VERA: Generating Visual Explanations of Two-Dimensional Embeddings via Region Annotation", In review. (link)
2. Poličar, Zupan, "Visualizing High-Dimensional Temporal Data Using Direction-Aware t-SNE", In review. (link)

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

1. Poličar et al., "Teaching bioinformatics through the analysis of SARS-CoV-2: project-based training for computer science students", Bioinformatics, 2024. (link)
   Oral Presentation at ISMB 2024.
2. Poličar et al., "openTSNE: a modular Python library for t-SNE dimensionality reduction and embedding", Journal of Statistical Software, 2024. (link)
3. Moroz et al., "Evolution of glutamatergic signaling and synapses", Neuropharmacology, 2021. (link)
4. Poličar et al., "Embedding to Reference t-SNE Space Addresses Batch Effects in Single-Cell Classification", Machine Learning, 2021. (link)
5. Stražar et al., "scOrange — a tool for hands-on training of concepts from single-cell data analytics", Bioinformatics, 2019. (link)

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

1. Poličar, Zupan, "Refining Temporal Visualizations Using the Directional Coherence Loss", Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Discovery Science, 2023. Porto, Portugal (link)
2. Poličar et al., "Nation-wide ePrescription Data Reveals Landscape of Physicians and their Drug Prescribing Patterns in Slovenia", Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 2023. Portorož, Slovenia (link)
3. Poličar et al., "Embedding to Reference t-SNE Space Addresses Batch Effects in Single-Cell Classification", Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Discovery Science, 2019. Split, Croatia (link)

Talks & Seminars

• MEDAI – Data-Driven Healthcare Transformation (2024) (link)
• Dagstuhl Seminar 24122 – Low-Dimensional Embeddings of High-Dimensional Data: Algorithms and Applications (2024) (link)
• AI in Medicine and Healthcare Meetup – organized by VTIS Slovenia - invited lecture (2024)

Honors & Awards

• University of Ljubljana Prešeren Award was awarded for the work in my Master’s Thesis on the t-SNE algorithm and its applications to single-cell RNA seq analysis. This is the highest university award for students awarded to 12 out of 40,000 students (2019)
• Golden Plaque of the University of Ljubljana was awarded to our laboratory for exemplary work on the Orange machine learning toolbox (2019)

Open-Source Software

• openTSNE, author and maintainer · GitHub | Paper
• VERA, author and maintainer · GitHub | Paper
• Orange Data Mining, contributor · Website | GitHub
• FDEB, author and maintainer · GitHub