Jerneja Žganec Gros

Alpineon Ltd
Member of: WG2

FEATURED NEOLOGISM:

Hangry – a nice blend of “hungry” and “angry,” used to describe irritability caused by hunger

Jerneja Žganec Gros is CEO at Alpineon, a Slovenian RTD-performing SME specializing in developing state-of-the-art AI products in computer vision and speech-technologies. She obtained her PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Ljubljana. She has coordinated multiple international and national innovative projects. She is recipient of the Slovenian Award for Technical Innovations for Disabled Persons and the Award for Outstanding Research Achievements by the Slovenian Research Agency. She was a member of the winning team of both the ICB face recognition challenge and at the ICB speaker recognition challenge. She has received the Slovenian Ambassador of Privacy award for best practices in privacy protection and multiple golden innovation awards from the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce. She authored one book, co-authored seven patents and more than 200 technical and scientific articles. Her interest in scope of ENEOLI is linked to pronunciation of neologisms.