In short
I am a Principal Software Engineer and Technical Lead Manager at Aurora Innovation, Inc. in the Perception group. Prior to Aurora I worked as a Staff Autonomy Engineer and Technical Lead Manager at Uber ATG in the Perception/Prediction group, until the company was acquired by Aurora. Before ATG I worked as a Research Scientist at Yahoo Labs in the Targeting Science group. I received PhD in Computer Science from the Department of Computer & Information Sciences, Temple University, under mentorship of prof. Slobodan Vucetic. Previously, I received B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering in 2007 and 2009, respectively, from University of Novi Sad, Serbia. For more info see my CV.News
August 2024:I regularly co-organize workshops on various topics. Past workshops and events I co-organized:
- AdKDD 2024 (summary), held in conjuction with KDD 2024.
- The sixth workshop on Precognition: Seeing through the Future, held in conjuction with CVPR 2024.
- AdKDD 2023 (summary, proceedings), held in conjuction with KDD 2023.
- The fifth workshop on Precognition: Seeing through the Future, held in conjuction with CVPR 2023.
- The panel on "Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous Driving", organized as a part of IEEE CAI 2023.
- The third AVVision workshop, held in conjuction with ECCV 2022.
- AdKDD 2022 (summary), held in conjuction with KDD 2022.
- The fourth workshop on Precognition: Seeing through the Future, held in conjuction with CVPR 2022.
- The second AVVision workshop (summary), held in conjuction with ICCV 2021.
- AdKDD 2021 (summary), held in conjuction with KDD 2021.
- The third workshop on Precognition: Seeing through the Future, held in conjuction with CVPR 2021.
- AdKDD 2020, held in conjuction with KDD 2020.
- The second workshop on Precognition: Seeing through the Future, held in conjuction with CVPR 2020.
- AdKDD 2019, held in conjuction with KDD 2019.
- Precognition: Seeing through the Future, held in conjuction with CVPR 2019.
- 2018 Edition of AdKDD and TargetAd, held in conjuction with KDD 2018.
- 2017 Edition of AdKDD and TargetAd, held in conjuction with KDD 2017.
- TargetAd 2016: Ad Targeting at Scale (summary), held in conjuction with WSDM 2016.
- TargetAd 2015: Ad Targeting at Scale (summary), held in conjuction with WWW 2015.
November 2022: Check out the blog I co-authored that is describing an approach to detection of emergency vehicles taken at Aurora. June 2022: I gave an invited talk on end-to-end perception and prediction at Auto.AI USA conference in June 2022. See here the interview I gave for the conference before my talk. March 2022: I received an Honorable Mention in the AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Annual List (list of world’s top 100 researchers) for the area of Information Retrieval and Recommendation, in a list compiled by ArnetMiner. December 2021: I gave an invited talk on Aurora research at Tech.AD USA conference in November 2021. March 2021: I am co-organizing AVVision, an Organized Session held as a part of IROS 2021. January 2021: I am co-organizing AVVision, a Special Session held as a part of ICIP 2021. October 2020: I gave a keynote talk on Uber ATG research at UberML'20, Uber's annual internal Machine Learning conference. September 2020: I will give a keynote talk on Uber ATG research at Workshop on Autonomous Vehicle Vision, organized as a part of WACV 2021. (update: see the video recording here) September 2020: I gave a keynote talk on Uber ATG research at Ai Day 2020, organized by VinAi research in September 2020. July 2020: I will give an invited talk on Uber ATG research at Auto.AI USA conference in March 2021. (update: conference postponed to July 2021 due to the pandemic) July 2020: I will give an invited talk on Uber ATG research at Workshop on Benchmarking Trajectory Forecasting Models, organized as a part of ECCV 2020. June 2020: Our MultiXNet model performing joint end-to-end object perception and motion prediction was featured on VentureBeat, as well as l'Automobile (Italy), Motorpasion (Spain), SiecleDigital (France), and other websites throughout the world. May 2020: I will give an invited talk on Uber ATG research at Workshop on AI for Autonomous Driving, organized as a part of ICML 2020. April 2020: Our SC-GAN trajectory predictor that uses Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to improve movement prediction of traffic actors was featured on VentureBeat, as well as IEEE Innovation at Work, 4ever Science (Russia), ETAuto.com (India), Analytics India Magazine, ZME Science, and other websites throughout the world. September 2019: I gave an invited talk at PyData Córdoba on Perception and Prediction at Uber ATG. September 2018: I gave a keynote talk at PyData Córdoba on Self-Driving Cars & AI: Transforming our Cities and our Lives. June 2014: Our World Cup predictor based on the analysis of millions of Tumblr posts was featured on Yahoo! Labs, Yahoo! Sports, MarketWatch, and other websites throughout the world. August 2013: Our work "Semi-Supervised Learning for Integration of Aerosol Predictions from Multiple Satellite Instruments" received an Outstanding Paper Award at IJCAI 2013, AI and Computational Sustainability Track. May 2013: BudgetedSVM, a C++ toolbox for large-scale non-linear classification, is available for download.
Research
I am interested in several areas of Machine Learning and Data Mining. I have worked on problems related to object perception and motion prediction in self-driving vehicles, computational advertising, bioinformatics, learning on low resources, spatio-temporal problems in remote sensing, data visualization, object matching. The complete list of my publications is given below, along with a source code and a PDF-version of a paper where available.NOTE: To peruse papers published by the IEEE, one must adhere to the terms of the following IEEE copyright notice.
Journal papers
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Large-Scale Discovery of Disease-Disease and Disease-Gene Associations
Gligorijevic, Dj., Stojanovic, J., Djuric, N., Radosavljevic, V., Grbovic, M., Kulathinal, R. J., Obradovic, Z.
Nature Scientific Reports, vol. 6, article no. 32404, 2016.
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Modeling Healthcare Quality via Compact Representations of Electronic Health Records
Stojanovic, J., Gligorijevic, Dj., Radosavljevic, V., Djuric, N., Grbovic, M., Obradovic, Z.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB), vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 545-554, 2016.
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Semi-Supervised Combination of Experts for Aerosol Optical Depth Estimation
Djuric, N., Kansakar, L., Vucetic, S.
Artificial Intelligence, vol. 230, pp. 1-13, 2016.
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Gaussian Conditional Random Fields for Aggregation of Operational Aerosol Retrievals
Djuric, N., Radosavljevic, V., Obradovic, Z., Vucetic, S.
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 761-765, 2014.
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BudgetedSVM: A Toolbox for Scalable SVM Approximations
Djuric, N., Lan, L., Vucetic, S., Wang, Z.
Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 14(Dec):3813-3817, 2013.
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Supervised Clustering of Label Ranking Data using Label Preference Information
Grbovic, M., Djuric, N., Guo, S., Vucetic, S.
Machine Learning Journal (MLJ), pp. 1-35, 2013.
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A Large-scale Evaluation of Computational Protein Function Prediction
Radivojac, P., Clark, W. T., ..., Toppo, S., Lan, L., Djuric, N., Guo, Y., Vucetic, S., Bairoch, A., Linial, M., Babbitt, P. C., et al.
Nature Methods, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 221-229, 2013.
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MS-kNN: Protein Function Prediction by Integrating Multiple Data Sources
Lan, L., Djuric, N., Guo, Y., Vucetic, S.
BMC Bioinformatics, vol. 14 (suppl. 3):S8, 2013.
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Traffic State Estimation from Aggregated Measurements using Signal Reconstruction Techniques
Coric, V., Djuric, N., Vucetic, S.
Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics, no. 2315, pp. 121-130, 2012.
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Travel Speed Forecasting by Means of Continuous Conditional Random Fields
Djuric, N., Radosavljevic, V., Coric, V., Vucetic, S.
Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Network Modeling, no. 2263, pp. 131-139, 2011.
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Conference papers
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Improved Tracking of Articulated Vehicles in Self-Driving Applications Using Phantom Observations
Xu, C., Kingston, P., Djuric, N.
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Bilbao, Spain, 2023.
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Convolutions for Spatial Interaction Modeling
Su, Z., Wang, C., Bradley, D., Vallespi-Gonzalez, C., Wellington, C. K., Djuric, N.
IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), New Orleans, USA, 2022.
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Multi-View Fusion of Sensor Data for Improved Perception and Prediction in Autonomous Driving
Fadadu, S.*, Pandey, S.*, Hegde, D., Shi, Y., Chou, F.-C., Djuric, N., Vallespi-Gonzalez, C. *authors contributed equally
IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Waikoloa, USA, 2022.
arXiv preprint:2008.11901, 2020.
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Temporally-Continuous Probabilistic Prediction using Polynomial Trajectory Parameterization
Su, Z., Wang, C., Cui, H., Djuric, N., Vallespi-Gonzalez, C., Bradley, D.
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Prague, Czech Republic, 2021.
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Uncertainty-Aware Estimation of Vehicle Orientation for Self-Driving Applications
Cui, H., Chou, F.-C., Charland, J., Vallespi-Gonzalez, C., Djuric, N.
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Indianapolis, USA, 2021.
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MultiXNet: Multiclass Multistage Multimodal Motion Prediction
Djuric, N., Cui, H., Su, Z., Wu, S., Wang, H., Chou, F.-C., San Martin, L., Feng, S., Hu, R., Xu, Y., Dayan, A., Zhang, S., Becker, B. C., Meyer, G. P., Vallespi-Gonzalez, C., Wellington, C. K.
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), Nagoya, Japan, 2021.
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Ellipse Loss for Scene-Compliant Motion Prediction
Cui, H.*, Shajari, H.*, Yalamanchi, S., Djuric, N. *authors contributed equally
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Xi'an, China, 2021.
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Multi-Modal Trajectory Prediction of NBA Players
Hauri, S., Djuric, N., Radosavljevic, V., Vucetic, S.
IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Waikoloa, USA, 2021.
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Improving Word Embeddings through Iterative Refinement of Word- and Character-level Models
Ha, P., Zhang, S., Djuric, N., Vucetic, S.
International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Barcelona, Spain, 2020.
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Growing Adaptive Multi-hyperplane Machines
Djuric, N., Wang, Z., Vucetic, S.
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Vienna, Austria, 2020.
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Improving Movement Predictions of Traffic Actors in Bird's-Eye View Models using GANs and Differentiable Trajectory Rasterization
Wang, E.*, Cui, H.*, Yalamanchi, S., Moorthy, M., Chou, F.-C., Djuric, N. *authors contributed equally
ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), San Diego, USA, 2020.
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Long-term Prediction of Vehicle Behavior using Short-term Uncertainty-aware Trajectories and High-definition Maps
Yalamanchi, S., Huang, T.-K., Haynes, G. C., Djuric, N.
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Rhodes, Greece, 2020.
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Predicting Motion of Vulnerable Road Users using High-Definition Maps and Efficient ConvNets
Chou, F.-C., Lin, T.-H., Cui, H., Radosavljevic, V., Nguyen, T., Huang, T.-K., Niedoba, M., Schneider, J., Djuric, N.
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), Las Vegas, USA, 2020.
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Deep Kinematic Models for Kinematically Feasible Vehicle Trajectory Predictions
Cui, H., Nguyen, T., Chou, F.-C., Lin, T.-H., Schneider, J., Bradley, D., Djuric, N.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Paris, France, 2020.
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Uncertainty-aware Short-term Motion Prediction of Traffic Actors for Autonomous Driving
Djuric, N., Radosavljevic, V., Cui, H., Nguyen, T., Chou, F.-C., Lin, T.-H., Singh, N., Schneider, J.
IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Snowmass Village, USA, 2020.
arXiv preprint:1808.05819, 2018.
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Multimodal Trajectory Predictions for Autonomous Driving using Deep Convolutional Networks
Cui, H., Radosavljevic, V., Chou, F.-C., Lin, T.-H., Nguyen, T., Huang, T.-K., Schneider, J., Djuric, N.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Montreal, Canada, 2019.
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Analyzing Uber's Ride-Sharing Economy
Kooti, F., Grbovic, M., Aiello, L. M., Djuric, N., Radosavljevic, V., Lerman, K.
International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Perth, Australia, 2017.
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Network–Efficient Distributed Word2vec Training System for Large Vocabularies
Ordentlich, E., Feng, A., Grbovic, M., Yang, L., Cnudde, P., Djuric, N., Radosavljevic, V., Owens, G.
International ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Indianapolis, USA, 2016.
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Travel the World: Analyzing and Predicting Booking Behavior using E-mail Travel Receipts
Djuric, N., Grbovic, M., Radosavljevic, V., Savla, J., Bhagwan, V., Sharp, D.
International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Montreal, Canada, 2016.
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Smartphone App Categorization for Interest Targeting in Advertising Marketplace
Radosavljevic, V., Grbovic, M., Djuric, N., Bhamidipati, N., Zhang, D., Wang, J., Dang, J., Huang, H., Nagarajan, A., Chen, P.
International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Montreal, Canada, 2016.
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Scalable Semantic Matching of Search Queries to Ads in Sponsored Search Advertising
Grbovic, M., Djuric, N., Radosavljevic, V., Silvestri, F., Baeza-Yates, R., Feng, A., Ordentlich, E., Yang, L., Owens, L.
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), Pisa, Italy, 2016.
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ParkAssistant: An Algorithm for Guiding a Car to a Parking Spot
Djuric, N., Grbovic, M., Vucetic, S.
Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting (TRB), Washington, D.C., USA, 2016.
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Portrait of an Online Shopper: Understanding and Predicting Consumer Behavior
Kooti, F., Lerman, K., Aiello, L. M., Grbovic, M., Djuric, N., Radosavljevic, V.
ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), San Francisco, USA, 2016.
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E-commerce in Your Inbox: Product Recommendations at Scale
Grbovic, M., Radosavljevic, V., Djuric, N., Bhamidipati, N., Savla, J., Bhagwan, V., Sharp, D.
ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Sydney, Australia, 2015.
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Gender and Interest Targeting for Sponsored Post Advertising at Tumblr
Grbovic, M., Radosavljevic, V., Djuric, N., Bhamidipati, N., Nagarajan, A.
ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Sydney, Australia, 2015.
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Context- and Content-aware Embeddings for Query Rewriting in Sponsored Search
Grbovic, M., Djuric, N., Radosavljevic, V., Silvestri, F., Bhamidipati, N.
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), Santiago, Chile, 2015.
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Hierarchical Neural Language Models for Joint Representation of Streaming Documents and their Content
Djuric, N.*, Wu, H.*, Radosavljevic, V., Grbovic, M., Bhamidipati, N. *authors contributed equally
International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Florence, Italy, 2015.
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Search Retargeting using Directed Query Embeddings
Grbovic, M., Djuric, N., Radosavljevic, V., Bhamidipati, N.
International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Florence, Italy, 2015.
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Hate Speech Detection with Comment Embeddings
Djuric, N., Zhou, J., Morris, R., Grbovic, M., Radosavljevic, V., Bhamidipati, N.
International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Florence, Italy, 2015.
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queryCategorizr: A Large-Scale Semi-Supervised System for Categorization of Web Search Queries
Grbovic, M., Djuric, N., Radosavljevic, V., Bhamidipati, N., Hawker, J., Johnson, C.
International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Florence, Italy, 2015.
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Hidden Conditional Random Fields with Distributed User Embeddings for Ad Targeting
Djuric, N., Radosavljevic, V., Grbovic, M., Bhamidipati, N.
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Shenzhen, China, 2014.
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Non-linear Label Ranking for Large-scale Prediction of Long-Term User Interests
Djuric, N., Grbovic, M., Radosavljevic, V., Bhamidipati, N., Vucetic, S.
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Quebec City, Canada, 2014.
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Frugal Traffic Monitoring with Autonomous Participatory Sensing
Coric, V., Djuric, N., Vucetic, S.
SIAM Conference on Data Mining (SDM), Philadelphia, PA, 2014.
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Efficient Visualization of Large-scale Data Tables through Reordering and Entropy Minimization
Djuric, N., Vucetic, S.
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Dallas, TX, 2013.
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Distributed Confidence-Weighted Classification on MapReduce
Djuric, N., Grbovic, M., Vucetic, S.
IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData), Santa Clara, CA, USA, 2013.
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Semi-Supervised Learning for Integration of Aerosol Predictions from Multiple Satellite Instruments
Djuric, N., Kansakar, L., Vucetic, S.
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Beijing, China, 2013.
Outstanding paper award from AI and Computational Sustainability Track
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Multi-prototype Label Ranking with Novel Pairwise-to-Total-Rank Aggregation
Grbovic, M.*, Djuric, N.*, Vucetic, S. *authors contributed equally
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Beijing, China, 2013.
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Convex Kernelized Sorting
Djuric, N., Grbovic, M., Vucetic, S.
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Toronto, Canada, 2012.
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Supervised Clustering of Label Ranking Data
Grbovic, M., Djuric, N., Vucetic, S.
SIAM Conference on Data Mining (SDM), Anaheim, CA, USA, 2012.
Best of SDM (selected in the top 10 best papers)
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Trading Representability for Scalability: Adaptive Multi-Hyperplane Machine for Nonlinear Classification
Wang, Z., Djuric, N., Crammer, K., Vucetic, S.
ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), San Diego, CA, USA, 2011.
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Granted patents
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Systems and Methods for Sensor Data Processing and Object Detection and Motion Prediction for Robotic Platforms
Mohta, A., Chou, F.-C., Vallespi-Gonzalez, C., Becker, B. C., Djuric, N.
US Patent no. 12,007,728, 2024.
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Trajectory Prediction for Autonomous Devices
Djuric, N., Yalamanchi, S., Haynes, G. C., Huang, T.-K.
US Patent no. 11,851,087, 2023. (continuation of the earlier patent)
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Object Motion Prediction and Autonomous Vehicle Control
Djuric, N., Radosavljevic, V., Nguyen, T., Lin, T.-H., Schneider, J., Cui, H., Chou, F.-C., Huang, T.-K.
US Patent no. 11,835,951, 2023. (continuation of the earlier patent)
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Systems and Methods for Training Predictive Models for Autonomous Devices
Cui, H., Wang, J., Yalamanchi, S., Moorthy, M., Chou, F.-C., Djuric, N.
US Patent no. 11,762,391, 2023. (continuation of the earlier patent)
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Motion Prediction for Autonomous Devices
Djuric, N., Cui, H., Nguyen, T., Chou, F.-C., Lin, T.-H., Schneider, J., Bradley, D. M.
US Patent no. 11,635,764, 2023.
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Personalizing Ride Experience based on Contextual Ride Usage Data
Djuric, N., Radosavljevic, V.
US Patent no. 11,488,277, 2022. (continuation of the earlier patent)
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Systems and Methods for Training Predictive Models for Autonomous Devices
Cui, H., Wang, J., Yalamanchi, S., Moorthy, M., Chou, F.-C., Djuric, N.
US Patent no. 11,442,459, 2022.
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Trajectory Prediction for Autonomous Devices
Djuric, N., Yalamanchi, S., Haynes, G. C., Huang, T.-K.
US Patent no. 11,420,648, 2022.
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Computerized System and Method for Augmenting Search Terms for Increased Efficiency and Effectiveness in Identifying Content
Bhagwan, V., Carpenter, B., Grbovic, M., Sharp, D., Radosavljevic, V., Djuric, N.
US Patent no. 11,263,664, 2022.
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Object Motion Prediction and Autonomous Vehicle Control
Djuric, N., Radosavljevic, V., Nguyen, T., Lin, T.-H., Schneider, J., Cui, H., Chou, F.-C., Huang, T.-K.
US Patent no. 11,112,796, 2021. (continuation-in-part of the earlier patent)
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Object Motion Prediction and Autonomous Vehicle Control
Djuric, N., Radosavljevic, V., Nguyen, T., Lin, T.-H., Schneider, J.
US Patent no. 10,656,657, 2020.
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Machine Learning for Predicting Locations of Objects Perceived by Autonomous Vehicles
Haynes, G. C., Dewancker, I., Djuric, N., Huang, T.-K., Lan, T., Lin, T.-H., Marchetti-Bowick, M., Radosavljevic, V., Schneider, J., Styler, A. D., Traft, N., Wang, H., Stentz, A. J.
US Patent no. 10,579,063, 2020.
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Personalizing Ride Experience based on Contextual Ride Usage Data
Djuric, N., Radosavljevic, V.
US Patent no. 10,482,559, 2019.
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Neural Network System for Autonomous Vehicle Control
Djuric, N., Houston, J.
US Patent no. 10,452,068, 2019.
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Book chapters
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Distributed Confidence-Weighted Classification on Big Data Platforms
Djuric, N., Grbovic, M., Vucetic, S.
In V. Govindaraju, V. Raghavan, C. R. Rao (Editors), "Handbook of Statistics: Big Data Analytics", vol. 33, Elsevier, 2015.
[ScienceDirect] [bibtex]
Workshop papers
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End-to-End Deep Learning Models for Gap Identification in Maize Fields
Waqar, R., Grbovic, Z., Khan, M., Pajevic, N., Stefanovic, D., Filipovic, V., Panic, M., Djuric, N.
Workshop on 'Agriculture-Vision: Challenges & Opportunities for Computer Vision in Agriculture' at IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (V4A), Seattle, USA, 2024.
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Exploration of Data Augmentation Techniques for Bush Detection in Blueberry Orchards
Culjak, B., Pajevic, N., Filipovic, V., Stefanovic, D., Grbovic, Z., Djuric, N., Panic, M.
Workshop on 'Precognition: Seeing through the Future' at IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (Precognition), Seattle, USA, 2024.
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Detection of Active Emergency Vehicles using Per-Frame CNNs and Output Smoothing
Fan, M., Bidstrup, C., Su, Z., Owens, J., Yang, G., Djuric, N.
Workshop on 'Vision-Centric Autonomous Driving' at IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (VCAD), Vancouver, Canada, 2023.
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Bush Detection for Vision-based UGV Guidance in Blueberry Orchards: Data Set and Methods
Filipovic, V., Stefanovic, D., Pajevic, N., Grbovic, Z., Djuric, N., Panic, M.
Workshop on 'Precognition: Seeing through the Future' at IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (Precognition), Vancouver, Canada, 2023.
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Uncertainty-aware Vehicle Orientation Estimation for Joint Detection-Prediction Models
Cui, H., Chou, F.-C., Charland, J., Vallespi-Gonzalez, C., Djuric, N.
Workshop on 'Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving' at Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (ML4AD), virtual, 2020. (extended version published at ITSC 2021)
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Investigating the Effect of Sensor Modalities in Multi-Sensor Detection-Prediction Models
Mohta, A., Chou, F.-C., Becker, B. C., Vallespi-Gonzalez, C., Djuric, N.
Workshop on 'Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving' at Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (ML4AD), virtual, 2020.
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Temporally-Continuous Probabilistic Prediction using Polynomial Trajectory Parameterization
Su, Z., Wang, C., Cui, H., Djuric, N., Vallespi-Gonzalez, C., Bradley, D.
Workshop on 'Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving' at Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (ML4AD), virtual, 2020. (extended version published at IROS 2021)
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Improving Movement Prediction of Traffic Actors using Off-road Loss and Bias Mitigation
Niedoba, M., Cui, H., Luo, K., Hegde, D., Chou, F.-C., Djuric, N.
Workshop on 'Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving' at Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (ML4AD), Vancouver, Canada, 2019.
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Predicting Motion of Vulnerable Road Users using High-Definition Maps and Efficient ConvNets
Chou, F.-C., Lin, T.-H., Cui, H., Radosavljevic, V., Nguyen, T., Huang, T.-K., Niedoba, M., Schneider, J., Djuric, N.
Workshop on 'Machine Learning for Intelligent Transportation Systems' at Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (MLITS), Montreal, Canada, 2018. (extended version published at IV 2020)
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Leveraging Blogging Activity on Tumblr to Infer Demographics and Interests of Users for Advertising Purposes
Grbovic, M., Radosavljevic, V., Djuric, N., Bhamidipati, N., Nagarajan, A.
Workshop on 'Making Sense of Microposts' at International World Wide Web Conference (#Microposts), Montreal, Canada, 2016.
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Large-scale World Cup 2014 outcome prediction based on Tumblr posts
Radosavljevic, V., Grbovic, M., Djuric, N., Bhamidipati, N.
Workshop on 'Large-Scale Sports Analytics' at ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SportsKDD), New York City, USA, 2014.
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How much do age and gender affect news topic preferences?
Djuric, N., Grbovic, M., Görür, D., Radosavljevic, V.
Workshop on 'Data Science for News Publishing' at ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (NewsKDD), New York City, USA, 2014.
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Learning from Pairwise Preference Data using Gaussian Mixture Model
Grbovic, M., Djuric, N., Vucetic, S.
Workshop on 'Preference Learning' at European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PL-ECAI), Montpellier, France, 2012.
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Protein Function Prediction by Integrating Different Data Sources
Lan, L., Djuric, N., Guo, Y., Vucetic, S.
Automated Function Prediction SIG 2011 featuring the CAFA Challenge: Critical Assessment of Function Annotations (AFP/CAFA), Vienna, Austria, 2011.
Top performing team at AFP/CAFA 2011 Protein Function Prediction Assessment
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Random Kernel Perceptron on ATTiny2313 Microcontroller
Djuric, N., Vucetic, S.
Workshop on 'Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data' at ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SensorKDD), Washington DC, USA, 2010.
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Graduate theses
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Doctoral dissertation: Big Data Algorithms for Visualization and Supervised Learning
Temple University, Philadelphia, USA, 2013.
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Master thesis: Short-range Packet-oriented Radio Link
University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2009.
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Teaching
I was a Teaching Assistant at Temple University in the following courses:Spring 2012
- CIS 0835 - Cyberspace and Society (with prof. Abbe Forman; Dreamweaver)
Fall 2011
- CIS 3203/9603 - Artificial Intelligence (with prof. Longin Jan Latecki; joint undergraduate and graduate course)
- CIS 2107 - Computer Systems and Low-Level Programming (with prof. John Fiore; Assembly and C)
- CIS 0835 - Cyberspace and Society (with prof. Wendy Urban; Dreamweaver)