Advancing AI research that understands, interacts, and collaborates with humans in trustworthy and ethical ways.
Welcome to the Human-Centered AI Sarajevo Laboratory! Our research goal is developing artificial intelligence systems that can understand, interact and collaborate with humans in trustworthy and ethical ways.
We aim to create AI solutions that can enhance human capabilities, well-being and social good, while respecting human values, preferences and autonomy. We work on various topics such as explainable AI, robot learning, automated planning and reasoning, reinforcement learning, ethical AI, human-agent interaction, and AI security.
We are located in the Computer Science Department of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering Sarajevo at the University of Sarajevo .
Developing transparent and interpretable AI systems that humans can understand and trust.
Advancing robotic systems through machine learning and automated planning techniques.
Creating intuitive and effective collaboration between humans and AI agents.
Teaching AI systems to make optimal decisions through interaction with environments.
Ensuring AI systems align with human values, fairness, and societal well-being.
Protecting AI systems from adversarial attacks and ensuring robust performance.
š¢ Vahidin HasiÄ, Amina MeviÄ and Dr. Senka KriviÄ have won science projects funded by the Federal Ministry of Science and Education of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
š¢ Dr. Senka KriviÄ has become a member of ELLIS ā the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems, a pan-European AI network of excellence that focuses on fundamental science, technical innovation, and societal impact. Founded in 2018, ELLIS brings together leading researchers to strengthen Europe's position in modern AI through collaboration and openness. Dr. KriviÄ is the first person with an affiliation from Bosnia and Herzegovina to receive this recognition.
š¢ Vahidin HasiÄ had keynote talk titled "Towards Explainable Defect Image Classification in Semiconductor Front-End Production" at the 30th International Conference on Information, Communication and Automation Technologies (ICAT 2025), Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
š¢ Senka KriviÄ had presentation titled "Explainable robotics" at Eastern European Machine Learning Summer School (EEEML 2025) in Sarajevo.
š¢ Mubina Kamberovic, Amra Delic, and Esma Karahodza attended the ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization in New York during June 16-19, 2025 where they presented their works.
š¢ Vahidin HasiÄ's and Senka KriviÄ's paper "Understanding Image Classification Prediction with Any Segment Explanation" is accepted at the 34th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2025).
š¢ Vahidin Hasic has received British Scholarship Trust scholarship for research visit at King's College London.
š¢ Vahidin HasiÄ and Amina MeviÄ attended PhDiscovery Summers Days, organized by Infineon Technologies in Villach, Austria. They presented presented their works in the poster session. Vahidin gave a PhD Pitch Talk "Towards Explainable and Reliable Computer Vision".
š¢ Senka KriviÄ, PhD, and Bakir LaÄeviÄ, PhD, have visited and presented their work at the Humanoid and Cognitive Laboratory at Jožef Stefan Institute as part of the Bilateral Cooperation projects between Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, 24-25.
š¢ Amar HaliloviÄ presented the paper "The Affordance-based Explanations of Robot Navigation" at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation!
š¢ Vahidin HasiÄ held a seminar on "Practical use of LLM models and the latest tools" at the Academy of Sciences and Arts, Sarajevo.
š¢ Mubina Kamberovic's, Amra Delic's and Senka Krivic's paper "Investigating AI in Programming Education: Self-Reported AI Usage, Individual Traits, and Learning Outcomes" is accepted at the ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP '25) Late Breaking Results Track.
š¢ Amar Halilovic spent a week in Cambridge, UK, as part of the Visiting Researcher Programme. It brought together a diverse group of researchers and engineers working on different aspects of AI safety. Amar was also part of a team that developed and submitted a research proposal, hoping to return to Cambridge and work on it if funding comes through.
š¢ Mubina Kamberovic's, Amina Mevic's and Senka Krivic's paper "Sentence Encoder-Based Clustering Method for Modeling Students' Learning Programming Behavior" is accepted at the ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP '25). Mubina Kamberovic is accepted to present her research at the Doctoral Consortium at the same conference.
š¢ Vahidin HasiÄ and Amina MeviÄ are accepted at 2025 World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) Doctoral Consortium.
š¢ Amar Halilovic has been accepted at the Meridian Visiting Researcher Programme.
š¢ Vahidin HasiÄ's, Amar HaliloviÄ's and Senka KriviÄ's paper "Superpixel Correlation for Explainable Image Classification" is accepted at the 2025 World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)!
š¢ Amar HaliloviÄ and Amina MeviÄ participated at the AAAI 2025 conference in Philadelphia, USA. They presented their research at the AAAI 2025 Doctoral Consortium, where they had the opportunity to discuss it with their peers and experts in the field.
š¢ Amar HaliloviÄ completed his 3-months-long research stay at the Department of Informatics, King's College London
š¢ Amar HaliloviÄ gave a seminar on "Explainable Robot Navigation" at the AI Reasoning and Planning (RAP) Group, Department of Informatics, King's College London
š¢ Amar HaliloviÄ's and Senka KriviÄ's paper "Affordance-Based Explanations of Robot Navigation" is accepted at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)!
š¢ Senka Krivic, PhD was invited as an expert to the Foresight workshop 'AI impact on democracy' on 24 Jan 2025 in Brussels, Belgium organized by European Commission, Joint Research Centre
š¢ Senka Krivic, PhD is awarded with the title of Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Informatics at King's College London for the next two years.
š¢ Senka Krivic, PhD was a guest speaker at panel "Bosnian transitional complexities confronted with Foreign malign disinfo and AI generated realities" within Internet Governance Forum Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH IGF) organized in Sarajevo 28.11.2024. The panel report is Panel Report.
š¢ Vahidin HasiÄ, Amina MeviÄ and Mubina KamberiÄ attended PhDiscovery Winter Days, organized by Infineon Technologies in Villach, Austria.
š¢ Vahidin HasiÄ and Amina MeviÄ have been accepted to participate in "Lunch with a EurAI Fellow" at ECAI 2024 Conference in Santiago de Compostela.
š¢ Dr. Senka kriviÄ and Mubina KamberiÄ attented CAIDAS Workshop: AI for Software Engineering in Würzburg, Germany. Mubina gave a talk on the topic "Using machine learning methods for predicting students' compiler errors".
š¢ 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.
š¢ Dr. Senka kriviÄ participated as a panelist at J.P. Morgan Employee Development Week (EDW), a panel on the topic "Discovering the Power of AI."
š¢ Amina HromiÄ won second place at 3 minute thesis 2024 Sarajevo in the undergraduate category!
š¢ Vahidin HasiÄ and Amina MeviÄ attended PhDiscovery Summers Days, organized by Infineon Technologies in Villach, Austria. Amina gave a PhD Pitch Talk "Virtual Metrology for Smarter, Greener and Cleaner World", while Vahidin presented his work in the poster session.
š¢ Amina MeviÄ gave talk "Physics in Engineering" at the STEM Connect Conference, organized by Udruženje za razvoj i podrÅ”ku mladih Plus Ultra in Sarajevo, B&H!
š¢ Senka KriviÄ was selected as one of the 20 researchers for the New Generation Star Project at the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation by NOKOV Motion Capture!
š¢ Amar HaliloviÄ presented the paper "The Planning of Explanations for Robot Navigation" at the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation!
š¢ Amar HaliloviÄ presented the paper "Explainable is Responsible, or not?" in the workshop "What does Responsible Robotics mean?: Stretching roboticists' horizons from an academic, government and philosophical perspective" in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, where he won the shared 1st place award!
š¢ Vahidin HasiÄ, Emina Zolota and Amina MeviÄ paper "Predictive Analysis of Sarajevo's AQI using Machine Learning Models for Varied Data Granularity and Prediction Windows" is accepted at the MIPRO 2024 IEEE Conference!
š¢ Amar HaliloviÄ's and Senka KriviÄ's paper "Robot Explanation Identity" is accepted at the HRI 2024 Workshop - Robo-Identity 3: Designing for Identity in the Shared World!
š¢ Amar HaliloviÄ's and Senka KriviÄ's paper "Towards Affordance-Based Explanations of Robot Motion Planning" is accepted at the 2024 AIRoV ā The First Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision!
š¢ Amar HaliloviÄ's and Senka KriviÄ's paper "Planning of Explanations for Robot Navigation" is accepted at the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)!
š¢ Amar HaliloviÄ's and Senka KriviÄ's paper "Exploring the Impact of Explanation Representation on User Satisfaction in Robot Navigation" is accepted at the International Symposium on Technological Advances in Human-Robot Interaction!
š¢ Amar HaliloviÄ presented the paper "The Influence of a Robot's Personality on Real-Time Explanations of Its Navigation" at International Conference on Social Robotics!
š¢ Senka KriviÄ was one of the participants of the EU Policy Lab workshop "Algorithmic Fairness: A Design Approach for Fairness in AI-supported Human Decision-making"!