Matej is a third-year undergraduate student of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana. His interest in computer science began during high school through the International Baccalaureate Programme and early experience in video game development, which later evolved into a focus on artificial intelligence. His academic interests lie at the intersection of multimodal learning, bioinformatics, and explainable artificial intelligence, with a focus on building reliable and interpretable systems for healthcare applications.

He is conducting research at the Jožef Stefan Institute, where he works on integrating diverse biomedical data sources, such as medical images and clinical information, to support disease prognosis and outcome prediction. He has coauthored conference papers in medical machine learning and is a recipient of the Golden Minx Award in the RIS Competition on Developing New Analytical Methods in Medicine. As part of the ASEF Junior Fellowship, he will visit Professor Mateja Jamnik at the University of Cambridge, where he aims to deepen his knowledge in multimodal and explainable AI and explore principled approaches to building trustworthy machine learning systems.