Health Informatics - what to teach to students
Conference at Pula Gymnasium, Pula, Croatia
CV
Education
- Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (dr. sc.), 2025
Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka - Master's degree in Computer Engineering (mag. ing. comp.), cum laude, 2019
Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka - Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering (univ. bacc. ing. comp.), cum laude, 2017
Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka
Work experience
- Assistant Professor, 2025 - present
Faculty of Informatics, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula - Lead Developer, 2025 - present
dAIgnostics LLC — Health informatics and early neurodegenerative diagnostics - Architecture and software implementation, 2025 - present
LiberiqAI — Skincare mobile platform startup; agentic structures - Research Assistant, 2022 - 2025
Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka - Expert Associate - Junior Researcher, 2019 - 2022
University of Rijeka — CEKOM SmartCity.4DII and DATACROSS projects
Skills
- Robotics
- Industrial and collaborative manipulators
- Path planning and trajectory optimization
- Simulation (RoboDK, CoppeliaSim)
- Artificial Intelligence
- Regression modeling
- Convolutional neural networks
- Data synthetization
- Model interpretability
- Evolutionary Computing
- Genetic algorithms and evolutionary optimization
Awards
- 2023 — Best Paper Award, Artificial Intelligence in Medical Science, SICAAI conference
- 2021 — Award for Exceptional Contribution to the Development and Promotion of Technical Culture, Community of Technical Culture Pula
Publications
- Z Car, S Baressi Šegota, N Anđelić, I Lorencin, V Mrzljak (2020). Modeling the Spread of COVID-19 Infection Using a Multilayer Perceptron. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine 2020, 10, 2020 — 279 citations
- S Baressi Šegota, N Anđelić, I Lorencin, M Saga, Z Car (2020). Path planning optimization of six-degree-of-freedom robotic manipulators using evolutionary algorithms. International journal of advanced robotic systems 17 (2), 1729881420908076, 2020 — 109 citations
- D Štifanić, J Musulin, A Miočević, S Baressi Šegota, R Šubić, Z Car (2020). Impact of COVID‐19 on Forecasting Stock Prices: An Integration of Stationary Wavelet Transform and Bidirectional Long Short‐Term Memory. Complexity 2020 (1), 1846926, 2020 — 97 citations
- S Baressi Šegota, N Anđelić, V Mrzljak, I Lorencin, I Kuric, Z Car (2021). Utilization of multilayer perceptron for determining the inverse kinematics of an industrial robotic manipulator. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems 18 (4), 1729881420925283, 2021 — 82 citations
- S Baressi Šegota, I Lorencin, N Anđelić, V Mrzljak, Z Car (2020). Improvement of marine steam turbine conventional exergy analysis by neural network application. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 8 (11), 884, 2020 — 69 citations
- J Musulin, S Baressi Šegota, D Štifanić, I Lorencin, N Anđelić, T Šušteršič, ... (2021). Application of artificial intelligence-based regression methods in the problem of COVID-19 spread prediction: a systematic review. International journal of environmental research and public health 18 (8), 4287, 2021 — 64 citations
- V Medica-Viola, S Baressi Šegota, V Mrzljak, D Štifanić (2020). Comparison of conventional and heat balance based energy analyses of steam turbine. Pomorstvo 34 (1), 74-85, 2020 — 54 citations
- N Anđelić, S Baressi Šegota, I Lorencin, V Mrzljak, Z Car (2021). Estimation of COVID-19 epidemic curves using genetic programming algorithm. Health informatics journal 27 (1), 1460458220976728, 2021 — 51 citations
- I Lorencin, S Baressi Šegota, N Anđelić, V Mrzljak, T Ćabov, J Španjol, ... (2021). On urinary bladder cancer diagnosis: Utilization of deep convolutional generative adversarial networks for data augmentation. Biology 10 (3), 175, 2021 — 48 citations
- I Lorencin, S Baressi Šegota, N Anđelić, A Blagojević, T Šušteršić, ... (2021). Automatic Evaluation of the Lung Condition of COVID-19 Patients Using X-ray Images and Convolutional Neural Networks. Journal of Personalized Medicine 11 (1), 28, 2021 — 46 citations
Talks
Evolutionary Computing in Electrical Engineering
Lecture at Dante Alighieri Secondary School, Pula, Croatia
Asteroid hunting from Pula
Lecture at Pula Observatory, Pula, Croatia
Understanding the Energy Expenditure Predictors of Collaborative Robots Using Statistical and Machine Learning Methods
Conference at 2026 49th MIPRO ICT and Electronics Convention (MIPRO), Opatija, Croatia
To Boldly Go - Robots in Space
Lecture at Pula Observatory, Pula, Croatia
Influence of Operator Physical Characteristics on Compliance With Collaborative Robot
Conference at IHSI 2026, Florence, Italy
Interpretable Multimodal Framework for Assessing Cognitive Load and Stress in Collaborative Robot Environments
Conference at IHSI 2026, Florence, Italy
Johann Palisa 1848-1925
Talk at Dom hrvatskih branitelja, Pula, Croatia
Identification of Synthetic Data Source Points Using Data Similarity Indexes and Artificial Neural Networks
Conference at Springer Nature, Switzerland, Switzerland
On differentiating synthetic and real data in medical applications
Conference at University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Preparation of Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry System Notation Datasets for use in Convolutional Neural Networks
Conference at University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia
Teaching
Operating Systems (external link)
Lectures, Faculty of Informatics - Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, 2025
Network Systems (external link)
Lectures, Faculty of Informatics - Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, 2025
Application of Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory and Auditory Exercises, Faculty of Engineering - University of Rijeka, 2020
Programming
Laboratory Exercises, Faculty of Engineering - University of Rijeka, 2020
Evolutionary robotics
Laboratory and Auditory Exercises, Faculty of Engineering - University of Rijeka, 2020
Robotics in industry
Laboratory and Auditory Exercises, Faculty of Engineering - University of Rijeka, 2020
Basics of robotics
Laboratory and Auditory Exercises, Faculty of Engineering - University of Rijeka, 2020
Electronics
Laboratory Exercises, Faculty of Engineering - University of Rijeka, 2020
Service and leadership
- General Secretary of the Astronomical Society "Istra" Pula (ADIP) since 2025; member since 2008, member of the administrative board since 2021
- Representative in the Croatian Astronomical Union since 2025
- Representative in the assembly of the Community of Technical Culture Pula since 2025
- Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) since 2021
- Member of the Global Meteor Network (GMN) since its inception
- Volunteer with STEM Games and Istra-STEM