Dimitar Trajanov

• Data Science and Machine Learning
• Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• FinTech
• Semantic Web
• Technology for Development and Climate Change

• MET CS 777 Big Data Analytics

Published articles in the last five years

1. Stojanov, Riste, Ognen Popovski, Milos Jovanovik, Eftim Zdravevski, Petre Lameski, and Dimitar Trajanov. “Temporal Authorization Graphs: Pros, Cons and Limits.” In International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good, pp. 105-120. Springer, Cham, 2021.
2. Todorovska, Ana, Eva Spirovska, Gorast Angelovski, Hristijan Peshov, Ivan Rusevski, Jovana Marojevikj, Irena Vodenska, Lubomir T. Chitkushev, and Dimitar Trajanov. “Analysis of Cryptocurrency Interdependencies.” In Proceedings of Blockchain in Kyoto 2021 (BCK21), p. 011004. 2021.
3. Jovana Dobreva, Milos Jovanovik, and Dimitar Trajanov, DD-RDL: Drug-Disease Relation Discovery and Labeling, In ICT Innovations 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer, Cham. 2021
4. Giedrė Valūnaitė Oleškevičienė, Chaya Liebeskind, Dimitar Trajanov, Purificação Silvano, Christian Chiarcos, Mariana Damova, Speaker Attitudes Detection through Discourse Markers Analysis, Workshop on Deep Learning and Neural Approaches for Linguistic Data, Skopje, North Macedonia & online 30 September 2021
5. Trajanov, Dimitar, Julijana Angelovska, Tamara Mihajlovska, and Marija Poprizova. “The Potential of the Sharing Economy in a Developing Country: The Case of North Macedonia.” Gabriela Avram, eds. 2021 (2021): 214-224.
6. Jovana Dobreva, Aleksandar Krsteski, Mihail Tegovski, Kostadin Mishev, Irena Vodenska, L. T. Chitkushev, Dimitar Trajanov, Graph based approach for discovering disease relations, BEST Conference 2021, July 12-14, 2021, Belgrade, Serbia (Abstract)
7. Marija Cvetanoska, Jovana Dobreva, Kostadin Mishev, Irena Vodenska, L. T. Chitkushev, Dimitar Trajanov, Glove and Word2Vec embedding models for disease representation, BEST Conference 2021, July 12-14, 2021, Belgrade, Serbia (Abstract)
8. V. Nikolovski, D. Trajanov, I. Chorbev “Learning Analytics – Case Study: Semantic and Sentiment Analyses of Students Feedback in Higher Education“, 15th International Technology, Education and Development Conference, Proceedings, pp. 10191-10198. (2021)
9. Mileski, Dimitar, Milos Jovanovik, and Dimitar Trajanov. “Semantic Web and Data Science Integration Using Computational Books.“, 18th International Conference on Informatics and Information Technologies (CIIT 2021), Skopje, Macedonia, May 2021.
10. Ana Todorovska, Dimitar Trajanov, and Sasho Gramatikov, “The impact of COVID-19 on sharing economy: Use-case on sharing and renting clothing”, 18th International Conference on Informatics and Information Technologies (CIIT 2021), Skopje, Macedonia, May 2021
11. Najdova, Natalija, Jasmina Belchovska Tasevska, Smilka Janeska Sarkanjac, Branislav Sarkanjac, and Dimitar Trajanov. “Digital Social Innovation for Better Connected Government: The Case of Republic of Macedonia.” In Web 2.0 and Cloud Technologies for Implementing Connected Government, pp. 136-161. IGI Global (2021)
12. Mishev, Kostadin, Ana Gjorgjevikj, Irena Vodenska, Lubomir T. Chitkushev, and Dimitar Trajanov. “Evaluation of Sentiment Analysis in Finance: From Lexicons to Transformers.” IEEE Access 8 (2020): 131662-131682.
13. Mishev, Kostadin, Aleksandra Karovska Ristovska, Dimitar Trajanov, Tome Eftimov, and Monika Simjanoska. “MAKEDONKA: Applied Deep Learning Model for Text-to-Speech Synthesis in Macedonian Language.” Applied Sciences 10, no. 19 (2020): 6882.
14. Stojanov, Riste, Gorjan Popovski, Nasi Jofce, Dimitar Trajanov, Barbara Koroušić Seljak, and Tome Eftimov. “Foodviz: Visualization of food entities linked across different standards.” In International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science, pp. 28-38. Springer, Cham, 2020.
15. Dobreva, Jovana, Nasi Jofche, Milos Jovanovik, and Dimitar Trajanov. “Improving NER Performance by Applying Text Summarization on Pharmaceutical Articles.” In: ICT Innovations 2020. Machine Learning and Applications. ICT Innovations 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1316. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62098-1_8 2020.
16. Klandev, Ivan, Marta Tolevska, Kostadin Mishev, and Dimitar Trajanov. “Parking Availability Prediction Using Traffic Data Services.”, ICT Innovation 2020 Conference, 2020.
17. Gjorgjevikj, Ana, Kostadin Mishev, and Dimitar Trajanov. “ADD: Academic Disciplines Detector Based on Wikipedia.” IEEE Access 8 (2020): 7005-7019.
18. Tanchovski, B., Tsagarakis, K.P., Kostakis, I., Trajanov, D. “Identifying Indicators relating to the Circular Economy Using Semantic Textual Similarity”, Online Symposium on Circular Economy and Sustainability, Alexandroupolis, Greece, 1-3 July, 2020 (extended abstract)
19. Milovanovikj, A., Tsagarakis, K.P., Kostakis, I., Trajanov, D. “Exploratory approach to locate the causal effects of economic indicators on circularity in the European Union”, Online Symposium on Circular Economy and Sustainability, Alexandroupolis, Greece, 1-3 July 2020 (extended abstract)
20. Zdraveski, Vladimir, Dimitar Trajanov, and Ljupco Kocarev. “Linked Data Based Power Grid Management.”, Proceedings of the 8th Small Systems Simulation Symposium 2020, Niš, Serbia, 12th-14th February 2020
21. Klandev, Ivan, Marta Tolevska, and Dimitar Trajanov. “Smart City: Public Parking Dashboard.”, 17th International Conference on Informatics and Information Technologies, Skopje, Macedonia (2020).
22. Todorovska, Ana, Evgenija Krajchevska, Dimitar Trajanov, and Sasho Gramatikov. “A novel platform for sharing and renting clothing to reduce environmental pollution.”, 17th International Conference on Informatics and Information Technologies, Skopje, Macedonia (2020).
23. Mishev, Kostadin, Ana Gjorgjevikj, Irena Vodenska, Ljubomir Chitkushev, Wataru Souma, and Dimitar Trajanov. “Forecasting Corporate Revenue by Using Deep-Learning Methodologies.” In 2019 International Conference on Control, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics & Optimization (ICCAIRO), pp. 115-120. IEEE, 2019.
24. Kostadin Mishev, Ana Gjorgjevikj, Riste Stojanov, Igor Miskovski, Irena Vodenska, Ljubomir Chitkushev and Dimitar Trajanov. “Performance Evaluation of Word and Sentence Embeddings for Finance Headlines Sentiment Analysis“. ICT Innovations 2019, Ohrid, Macedonia, 2019.
25. Sasho Gramatikov, Aleksandar Spasov, Ana Gjorgjevikj and Dimitar Trajanov. “A Review-Based Survey of Mobile Student Services”, ICT Innovations 2019, Ohrid, Macedonia, 2019
26. Lodi Dodevska, Viktor Petreski, Kostadin Mishev, Irena Vodenska, Dimitar Trajanov, Ana Gjorgjevikj, and Ljubomir Chitkushev, “Predicting company’s stock price direction by using sentiment analysis of news articles“, 15th Annual Research Conference on Computer Science and Education in Computer Science, Fulda, Germany, June 2019
27. Ana Gjorgjevikj, Kostadin Mishev, and Dimitar Trajanov, “Data-Driven Scientific Disciplines Detection Based on Wikipedia”, 3rd Conference on Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence RAAI 2019, Bucharest, Romania, June 28-30, 2019
28. Nasi Jofce, Milos Jovanovik and Dimitar Trajanov, “Named Entity Discovery for the Drug Domain“, 16th International Conference on Informatics and Information Technologies (CIIT 2019), Mavrovo, Macedonia, May 2019.
29. Filip Spasovski, Kostadin Mishev, Ana Gjorgjevikj and Dimitar Trajanov, “Investor Platform for Aggregating Companies News Articles Aided by Text Sentiment Analysis“, 16th International Conference on Informatics and Information Technologies (CIIT 2019), Mavrovo, Macedonia, May 2019.
30. Riste Stojanov, Sasho Gramatikov, Milos Jovanovik, Dimitar Trajanov, “Delegated attribute-based access control (DABAC) for contextual Linked Data“, 9th International Conference on Information Society and Technology ICIST2019, Kopaonik, Serbia, March 2019
31. Stojanov, Riste, Sasho Gramatikov, Igor Mishkovski, and Dimitar Trajanov. “Linked Data Authorization platform.” IEEE Access, 2018. (Impact Factor: 3.244)
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33. Stojanov, Sasho Gramatikov, Ognen Popovski, Dimitar Trajanov: Semantic-driven Secured Data Access in Distributed IoT Systems, Telecommunications Forum (TELFOR 2018), 20-21 Nov. 2018, Belgrade, Serbia
34. Kostadin Mishev, Ana Gjorgjevikj and Dimitar Trajanov, “Probabilistic approach by using n-peak Gaussian distribution for indoor positioning”, ICT Innovations 2018 conference, Ohrid, Macedonia, 2018
35. Ana Gjorgjevikj, Kostadin Mishev, Irena Vodenska, Lubomir Chitkushev, Dimitar Trajanov, “Foreign Direct Investment Net Inflows: Data-Driven Analysis”, 14th Annual Research Conference on Computer Science and Education in Computer Science, Boston, USA, July, 2018
36. Dimitar Trajanov, Irena Vodenska, Ana Gjorgjevikj, Kostadin Mishev and Ljubomir Chitkusev, “Data-Driven Modelling of Global Economy: Challenges and Opportunities“, 6-th International Conference on Big data in Economics, Science, and Technology (BEST 2018), Halkidiki, Greece, 12-14 July 2018 (abstract and presentation)
37. Ana Gjorgjevikj, Kostadin Mishev, Irena Vodenska, Ljubomir Chitkusev and Dimitar Trajanov, “Missing Data Analyses of Open Finance Datasets“, 6-th International Conference on Big data in Economics, Science, and Technology (BEST 2018), Halkidiki, Greece, 12-14 July, 2018 (abstract and presentation)
38. Kostadin Mishev, Ana Gjorgjevikj, Irena Vodenska, Ljubomir Chitkusev, and Dimitar Trajanov, “Sentiment analysis in finance news based on open services“, 6-th International Conference on Big data in Economics, Science, and Technology (BEST 2018), Halkidiki, Greece, 12-14 July 2018 (abstract and presentation)
39. Nasi Jofce, Riste Stojanov, and Dimitar Trajanov, “facetC: Highly customizable and CRUD based facet browser for Semantic Web“, 15th International Conference on Informatics and Information Technologies (CIIT 2018), Mavrovo, Macedonia, April 2018.
40. Trajanov, Dimitar, Vladimir Zdraveski, Riste Stojanov, and Ljupco Kocarev. “Dark Data in the Internet of Things (IoT): Challenges and Opportunities.”, 7th Small Systems Simulation Symposium 2018, 1-8, Nis, Serbia
41. Riste Stojanov, Vladimir Zdraveski and Dimitar Trajanov, “Challenges and Opportunities in Applying Semantics to Improve Access Control in the Field of Internet of Things”, Electronics Journal, Volume 21, Number 2, pp. 66-75, Dec. 2017.
42. Milos Jovanovik and Dimitar Trajanov. Consolidating Drug Data on a Global Scale Using Linked Data. Journal of Biomedical Semantics, 8:3, 2017. (Impact Factor: 1.620)
43. Dimitrovski A., Gjorgjevikj A., Trajanov D. (2017) Courses Content Classification Based on Wikipedia and CIP Taxonomy. In: Trajanov D., Bakeva V. (eds) ICT Innovations 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 778. Springer, 2017
44. Ema Eftimova , Smilka Janeska-Sarkanjac, and Dimitar Trajanov, “Comparative Analysis of E-Commerce in Developing and Developed Countries, Case Study: Macedonia, Serbia and Germany”, ICT Innovations 2017, Web Proceedings, Skopje, Macedonia, 2017
45. Zdraveski, Vladimir, Kostadin Mishev, Dimitar Trajanov, and Ljupco Kocarev. “ISO-Standardized Smart City Platform Architecture and Dashboard.” IEEE Pervasive Computing 16, no. 2 (2017): 35-43 (Impact factor: 1.836)
46. Zdraveski, Vladimir, Mirko Todorovski, Dimitar Trajanov, and Ljupco Kocarev. “Dynamic Load Balancing and Reactive Power Compensation Switch embedded in Power Meters.”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, Pages: 422 – 426, Volume: 64, Issue: 4, April 2017. (Impact Factor: 1.136)
47. Dimitar Trajanov, Irena Vodenska, Goce Cvetanov, Lou Chitkushev, “Data-Driven Analysis of Trade, FDI and International Relations on Global Scale”, 13th Annual Research Conference on Computer Science and Education in Computer Science, Albena, Bulgaria, July, 2017
48. Kostadin Mishev and Dimitar Trajanov, Analysis of the urban heat islands effect in Skopje, 14th International Conference on Informatics and Information Technologies (CIIT 2017), Mavrovo, Macedonia, April 2017.
49. Dimitar Trajanov, Data Science Profession: Getting the right people into the right courses, Second EDISON Champions Conference, 15-16 March 2017, Madrid – Spain
50. Ana Gjorgjevikj, Riste Stojanov, and Dimitar Trajanov, “Enhancing Text-Based Relatedness Measures with Semantic Web Data”. In: Stojanov G., Kulakov A. (eds) ICT Innovations 2016. ICT Innovations 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 665. Springer, Cham
51. Irena Vodenska, Dimitar Trajanov, Ivana Trajanovska, Lubomir Chitkushev, “Impact of Global Events on Crude Oil Prices”, 12th Annual Research Conference on Computer Science and Education in Computer Science, Fulda and Nürnberg, Germany, 1-4 July, 2016
52. Dimitar Trajanov, Ivana Trajanovska, Lubomir Chitkushev, Irena Vodenska, Using Google Bigquery for Data Analytics in Research and Education, 12th Annual Research Conference on Computer Science and Education in Computer Science, Fulda, and Nürnberg, Germany, 1-4 July, 2016
53. Dimitar Trajanov, “Linked Data Based Analytics for Drug Data on a Global Scale”, SEE Forum on Data Science, Belgrade, Serbia, June 20-21, 2016
54. Dimitar Trajanov, Jasmina Belcovska-Tasevska, Natalija Najdova, “Technology-Based Social Innovation: Driver Of Social Change In Small Developing Countries”, 2016 UNESCO Chair Conference on Technologies for Development: From Innovation to Social Impact, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2-4 May 2016

Projects in the last five years

1. National Consultant – Data Scientist for Climate Change MRV platform, financed by UNDP project “Strengthening institutional and technical Macedonian capacities to enhance transparency in the framework of the Paris Agreement” (CBIT PROJECT), 2021-2020
2. Upgrade the national climate change platform (Develop a knowledge management module, new GHG inventory module and adapt the platform to be accessible for persons with visual and hearing impairment), financed by UNDP CBIT PROJECT, 2021-2020
3. MedDATA: Medical Data Analysis, Financed by Scientific and research fund of FINKI, Macedonia, 2021-2022, (project participant)
4. FoodViz: NLP dataset management platform in the food domain, Financed by Scientific and research fund of FINKI, Macedonia, 2021-2022, (project participant)
5. EUROCC – National Competence Centres in the framework of EuroHPC, Financed by European Union’s Horizon 2020 (H2020), 2020-2022 (project participant)
6. Data Analytics in Healthcare, Financed by Scientific and research fund of FINKI, Macedonia, 2020-2021, (project participant)
7. Application of NLP in Food Science, Financed by Scientific and research fund of FINKI, Macedonia, 2020-2021, (project participant)
8. European Network for Web-Centered Linguistic Data Science, COST Action CA18209, Financed by European COST program, 2019-2023 (Management committee member)
9. Swedish Institute Innovation Leaders, Financed by Swedish Institute (SI), 2019-2021, (country team member)
10. NLP in Fintech, Financed by Scientific and research fund of FINKI, Macedonia, 2019-2020, (project participant)
11. Multilingual NLP Models, Financed by Scientific and research fund of FINKI, Macedonia, 2019-2020, (project participant)
12. Incubator for Digital Farming, Financed by Visegrad Fund, 2018-2019 (project participant)
13. Data science based Global Economy Modelling and forecasting, Financed by Scientific and research fund of FINKI, Macedonia, 2018-2019, (project leader)
14. Understanding and Modeling Compound Climate and Weather Events (DAMOCLES), COST Action CA17109, Financed by European COST program, 2018-2022 (Management committee member)
15. Urban Heat Islands Action Plan for City of Skopje, Financed by Regional project: “ICT for urban resilience”, implemented by UNDP and the City of Skopje, 2018 (project leader)
16. Airborne visual and thermal imagery of Skopje urban area, UNDP Project: “ICT for urban Resilience”, Skopje 2018, (project leader)
17. Harmonization of UAS techniques for agricultural and natural ecosystems monitoring, COST Action CA16219, Financed by European COST program, 2017-2019 (Management committee member)
18. Visualization of Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions for the city of Skopje, Financed by UNDP Project: “Increasing Urban Resilience by use for ICT for Mainstreaming Disaster and Climate Risk Reduction in Armenia, Macedonia and Moldova – ICT for urban Resilience”, 2018 (project leader)
19. LDA: Linked Data Authorization, Financed by Scientific and research fund of FINKI, Macedonia, 2017-2018, (project leader)
20. From Sharing to Caring: Examining Socio-Technical Aspects of the Collaborative Economy, COST Action CA16121, Financed by European COST program, 2017-2021 (Management committee member)
21. National Consultant as Data Scientist: Development of data science-based visualization and communication of climate change data for the general public and policymakers. Financed by Project: 00090319 “Macedonian Second Biennial Update Report on Climate Change”, 2017 (consultant)
22. Climate Change Support Web Platform, Financed by UNDP and Macedonia’s Second Biennial Update Report on Climate Change, 2017, (project leader)
23. EDISON: Building Data Science Profession, Financed by European Union’s Horizon 2020, 2015-2017, (Expert Liaison Group Member)
24. SkopjeInfo: Smart Dashboard for the city of Skopje, Financed by City of Skopje Innovation Lab, 2016-2017, (project leader)
25. MDLData: Multi-domain Linked Data Integration, Financed by Scientific and research fund of FINKI, Macedonia, 2016-2017, (project leader)
26. Monitoring of the surface waters of the river of Lepenec by using Drones and thermal cameras, Financed by City of Skopje Innovation Lab, 2016-2017, (project leader)
27. Climate Change Support Web Applications (Mobility Week Calendar App, Event Management Platform and Illustrated Story App), Financed by Macedonia’s Second Biennial Update Report on Climate Change, 2016, (project leader)
28. Heat Islands in Skopje: Analysis, interpretation, and visualization of the data, Financed by City of Skopje Innovation Lab, 2016, (project leader)
29. Establishing the Innovation Lab in City of Skopje, Financed by UDNP Development program, 2015-2016 (project participant)