From the lab

PHYCONBA 2026

Amina Mević presented a poster titled: Label-Free Physics-Consistency Monitoring for Virtual Metrology Systems at the 5th International Physics Conference in Bosnia and Herzegovina (PHYCONBA 2026), held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

ITiCSE 2026

Mubina Kamberović presented a paper titled: From Gamification to Insights: Predicting Student Success in an Introductory Programming Course and attended Doctoral Consortium at the 31st Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE) in Madrid, Spain.

NT 2026

Mubina Kamberović and Senka Krivić attended the NEW TECHNOLOGIES, DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATIONS Conference in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mubina presented a paper titled Digital and AI Tools in Education: Insights from Educators and Learners and Senka presented a paper Multi-Output Drift Detection and Model Adaptation in Semiconductor Manufacturing.

ICSR 2026

Amar Halilović and Senka Krivić attended ICSR 2026.

• At the main track, Amar presented a paper titled: Adaptive Explanation Strategy Selection Under Uncertain Human Responses in Social Robotics, which was finalist for the Best Student Paper Award.
• At the workshop Ethical Design in Human-Robot Interaction, Amar presented a paper titled: Ethical Invariant Verification for LLM-Based Commercial Service Robots
• At the workshop ASIMOV Adaptive Social Interaction based on user's Mental mOdels and behaVior in HRI, Senka presented a paper titled: Mental-Model-Aware Retail Robots: Neuro-Symbolic Explainable Assistance for Trustworthy Human-Robot Commerce

Research Visit – Jožef Stefan Institute Ljubljana

Vahidin Hasić was a visiting PhD researcher for 3 months at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Research Visit – University of Sheffield

This June, our group member Amina Mević is undertaking a research visit at the University of Sheffield, working within the group of Professor Merlyne De Souza at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

This research visit is supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Science of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

UMAP 2026

This June, members of our research group attended the 34th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2026) in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Amina Mević presented at the Explainable User Models and Personalized Systems (ExUM) workshop:

• Explainability Requirements for Industry 5.0: Towards Role-Adaptive Explanation in Semiconductor Manufacturing, authored by Amina Mević and Senka Krivić. The work addresses the growing need for explainable AI systems that adapt their explanations to different user roles in industrial settings, with a focus on semiconductor manufacturing as a representative Industry 5.0 use case.

Vahidin Hasić presented at the ParaAdapt: Parametric User Modeling & Adaptation for Navigating Complex Interactive Domains workshop:

• Parametric User Abstractions for Controllable and Adaptive Explanation in Human–Robot Interaction , authored by Amar Halilović, Vahidin Hasić, and Senka Krivić.

Visiting Researcher at King's College London

Amar Halilović was a visiting PhD researcher for 3 months at the Department of Informatics, King's College London (KCL), United Kingdom.

ICRA 2026

Vahidin Hasić and Senka Krivić attended ICRA 2026. Vahidin presented at two workshops:

• At the workshop Semantics for Reliable Robot Autonomy: From Environment Understanding and Reasoning to Safe Interaction, he delivered a lightning talk and poster presentation titled: Ontology-Guided Reasoning for Affordance-Based Explanations of Robot Navigation
• At the workshop Bridging the Gap between Robot Learning and Human-Robot Interaction, he presented a poster titled: Explanation-Driven Task Planning Under Social Uncertainty

Research Seminar at Hacettepe University

Vahidin Hasić held a research seminar titled "Towards Explainable Computer Vision" at Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey.

ROMANDIC Winter School 2026

Amar Halilović attended the ROMANDIC Winter School 2026 on Robotic Handling of Deformable Objects. The winter school took place in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia.

HRI 2026

Amar Halilović attended HRI 2026. Amar presented his paper titled: Simulating Preference-Aware Robot Explanations: A Probabilistic Perspective on When and How to Explain

4th Symposium on Urban Air Quality Planning

On 2nd April 2026, our research group participated in the 4th Symposium on Urban Air Quality Planning held in Sarajevo. Amina Mević presented our work on smart air quality monitoring and prediction, contributing to an important regional discussion on environmental challenges facing urban areas in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The presented paper:

Long-Term Air Quality Forecasting in Sarajevo Using Multivariate Time Series Models and Explainable Artificial Intelligence

was authored by Amina Mević, Vahidin Hasić, Emina Zolota, Fatima Kaljanac, and Senka Krivić. The work explores the application of advanced machine learning techniques combined with explainable AI methods to forecast air quality over extended time horizons, with Sarajevo serving as a case study, a city well known for its significant air pollution challenges, particularly during winter months.

Visiting Researcher at King's College London

Vahidin Hasić was a visiting PhD researcher for 3 months at the Department of Informatics, King's College London (KCL), United Kingdom.

Montenegrin Machine Learning Workshop (MMLW 2025)

Vahidin Hasić had a poster presentation titled "Towards Explainable Image Classification" at Montenegrin Machine Learning Workshop (MMLW 2025), Podgorica, Montenegro.

Infineon Workshop Sarajevo

Vahidin Hasić held Infineon Workshop titled "Automating Semiconductor Manufacturing with Computer Vision" at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2025)

Vahidin Hasić and Amina Mević participated in the ECAI 2025 conference in Bologna, Italy. Vahidin Hasić presented paper "Towards Explaining SEM Defect Classification" and Amina Mević presented paper "Application of Multi-Output Regression and Feature Selection Methods in Semiconductor Manufacturing".

International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2025)

Vahidin Hasic presented paper "Understanding Image Classification Prediction with Any Segment Explanation" at International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2025) in Kaunas, Lithuania.

International Conference on Information, Communication and Automation Technologies (ICAT 2025)

                    We are proud to acknowledge the achievements of our talented BSc and MSc students who collaborated with our members and presented their work at ICAT 2025 (IEEE International Conference on Information, Communication and Automation Technologies) conference organised by Faculty of Electrical Engineering University of Sarajevo 

                    This year, three papers were accepted:

                    📌 Long-Horizon Prediction of PM10 Concentrations in Sarajevo Using FB Prophet and SHAP
                    Authors: Fatima Kaljanac , Amina Mević , and Senka Krivić 

                    📌 Generating Music Using Deep Learning
                    ➡️ Based on the BSc thesis of Selma Kurtović
                    Authors: Selma Kurtović , Arman Hasanbegović , and Senka Krivić 

                    📌 PDDL-Guided Robot Cloth Folding from Simulation to Real World
                    Authors:Aldin Dzelo, Adna Šestić ,Andrej Gams , and Senka Krivić 

                    👏 Congratulations to all authors for their excellent contributions, which demonstrate how undergraduate and graduate research can lead to internationally recognized results and further strengthen Sarajevo’s role in global AI, robotics, and data science research.
                

Eastern European Machine Learning Summer School (EEML 2025)

Vahidin Hasić was local organiser of Eastern European Machine Learning Summer School (EEML 2025) in Sarajevo. Mubina Kamberović and Amina Mević attended the school.

World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI 2025)

Vahidin Hasic presented paper "Superpixel Correlation for Explainable Image Classification" and attended Doctoral Consortium on World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI 2025) in Istanbul.

Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025)

Amar Halilović and Amina Mević participated in the AAAI 2025 conference in Philadelphia, USA, where they presented their works at the Doctoral Consortium and Workshops.

Electron Devices Technology and Manufacturing International Conference (IEEE EDTM 2025)

Senka Krivic and Amina Mevic attended the Electron Devices Technology and Manufacturing International Conference (IEEE EDTM 2025) in Hong Kong, where they presented paper, "Multi-output Virtual Metrology for Physical Vapor Deposition using the Projective Selection Algorithm."

European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2024)

In October, PhD students Vahidin Hasić and Amina Mević attended the 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. They participated in workshops on the 19th and 20th and attended the main conference from the 20th to the 24th. A highlight of their experience was attending a special lunch with EurAI fellows, where they received valuable insights and advice on advancing their PhD studies and careers in academia.

Workshop on Best practices from EU policies and strategies to achieve sustainable blue economy

Workshop on Best practices from EU policies and strategies to achieve sustainable blue economy: what path for Bosnia and Herzegovina? was held on 10 October 2024 in Sarajevo. The goal of the workshop was to transfer knowledge and best practices from the EU to Bosnia and Herzegovina in order to achieve sustainable blue economy. Senka Krivić, Amina Mević and Vahidin Hasić participated in this workshop, along with researchers from Italy, Croatia and Slovenia and representatives of European Union. Senka moderated the panel on state of the art of the blue economy in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

CAIDAS Workshop 2024: AI for Software Engineering

CAIDAS Workshop: AI for Software Engineering was held from September 30th to October 1st, 2024 in Würzburg, Germany. The goal was to explore how AI and data science can enhance the engineering of software systems. Senka Krivić and Mubina Kamberović participated in this workshop, along with more than 70 researchers and practitioners from 13 countries. Mubina gave a talk on the topic "Using machine learning methods for predicting students' compiler errors".

European Researchers' Night 2024

Our research group took part in the European Researchers' Night on September 27th, 2024, in Sarajevo. We presented our projects to a diverse audience ranging from ages 7 to 77, which is always a rewarding challenge. Engaging in fruitful conversations provided us with valuable insights and sparked ideas for upcoming projects.

STEM Youth Camp 2024

In the period from August 3 to 7, we held a STEM Youth Camp in which 43 high school students from Bosnia and Herzegovina participated. In a good mood, the participants had the opportunity to listen to eight lectures of our successful members from different STEM fields. In addition, they attended four different workshops, where they gained practical experience solving simple but challenging scientific and technical problems. Amina Mević participated in the organization while Vahidin Hasić held the AI ​​workshop.