Martin Gjoreski is an Ambizione Fellow supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and a Scientific Collaborator at the People-Centered Computing Lab, within the Faculty of Informatics at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI). His primary research areas are artificial intelligence — specifically machine learning, federated learning, and explainable AI (XAI) — applied to wearable computing, affective computing, and digital healthcare.

Education & recognition

Martin earned his PhD in Computer Science from the Jožef Stefan Institute in Slovenia under the supervision of Profs. Matjaž Gams and Mitja Luštrek. His doctoral thesis received the Jožef Stefan golden emblem, awarded to outstanding PhD theses in Slovenia. In 2021 he was included in the list of the top 2% scientists in the world for single-year impact.

Professional service

  • Associate Editor, ACM IMWUT (Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies)
  • Board Member, Global SNSF Fellows Network
Publications
(2023). OCOsense Glasses - Monitoring Facial Gestures and Expressions for Augmented Human-Computer Interaction: OCOsense Glasses for Monitoring Facial Gestures and Expressions. Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2023, Hamburg, Germany, April 23-28, 2023.
(2022). Handling Missing Data For Sleep Monitoring Systems. 10th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, ACII 2022, Nara, Japan, October 18-21, 2022.
(2022). Affect and Learning in the LAUREATE Dataset. Adjunct Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the 2022 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, UbiComp/ISWC 2022, Cambridge, United Kingdom, September 11-15, 2022.
(2022). Exploring LAUREATE - the Longitudinal multimodAl stUdent expeRience datasEt for AffecT and mEmory research. Adjunct Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the 2022 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, UbiComp/ISWC 2022, Cambridge, United Kingdom, September 11-15, 2022.
(2022). Introduction of the LAUREATE dataset: the Longitudinal multimodAl stUdent expeRience datasEt for AffecT and mEmory research. Adjunct Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the 2022 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, UbiComp/ISWC 2022, Cambridge, United Kingdom, September 11-15, 2022.
(2022). Monitoring Valence with Facial EMG Sensors using Machine Learning. Adjunct Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the 2022 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, UbiComp/ISWC 2022, Cambridge, United Kingdom, September 11-15, 2022.
(2022). Multi-task Learning for Stress Recognition. Adjunct Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the 2022 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, UbiComp/ISWC 2022, Cambridge, United Kingdom, September 11-15, 2022.
(2022). OCOsense Glasses for Facial Expressions Recognition and Contextual Affective Computing in Real World and Augmented Reality. Adjunct Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the 2022 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, UbiComp/ISWC 2022, Cambridge, United Kingdom, September 11-15, 2022.
(2022). BayCon: Model-agnostic Bayesian Counterfactual Generator. Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23-29 July 2022.
(2022). Federated Learning for Privacy-Aware Human Mobility Modeling. Frontiers Artif. Intell..
(2022). What Actually Works for Activity Recognition in Scenarios with Significant Domain Shift: Lessons Learned from the 2019 and 2020 Sussex-Huawei Challenges. Sensors.
(2022). Breathing Rate Estimation from Head-Worn Photoplethysmography Sensor Data Using Machine Learning. Sensors.
(2022). Facial Expression Recognition using Facial Mask with EMG Sensors. Proceedings of VR4Health - Workshop on Virtual Reality for Health and Wellbeing co-located with 21st International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2022), Lisboa, Portugal, November 27th, 2022.
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(2021). Detecting Verbal and Non-Verbal Gestures Using Earables. UbiComp/ISWC ‘21: 2021 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and 2021 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Virtual Event, September 21-25, 2021.
(2021). emteqPRO: Face-mounted Mask for Emotion Recognition and Affective Computing. UbiComp/ISWC ‘21: 2021 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and 2021 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Virtual Event, September 21-25, 2021.
(2021). Analysis of Deep Transfer Learning Using DeepConvLSTM for Human Activity Recognition from Wearable Sensors. Informatica (Slovenia).
(2021). Learning comprehensible and accurate hybrid trees. Expert Syst. Appl..
(2021). Cognitive Load Monitoring With Wearables-Lessons Learned From a Machine Learning Challenge. IEEE Access.
(2020). Can We Ditch Feature Engineering? End-to-End Deep Learning for Affect Recognition from Physiological Sensor Data. Sensors.
(2020). Classical and deep learning methods for recognizing human activities and modes of transportation with smartphone sensors. Inf. Fusion.