CV

Education

• PhD Student in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2023 - Present)
  • University of Belgrade – School of Electrical Engineering
• MSc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2022 - 2023)
  • University of Belgrade – School of Electrical Engineering
• BSc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2018 - 2022)
  • University of Belgrade – School of Electrical Engineering

Experience

• Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research and Development of Serbia (2024 - Present)
  • Junior Research Assistant – AI in Healthcare & Life Sciences
  • Developing end-to-end and lab-in-the-loop AI/ML solutions for computational biology, drug development, and protein engineering.
  • Tuning LLMs for protein embeddings, sequence generation, and functional property prediction.
  • Building drug–target interaction, molecular docking, and affinity prediction models using protein sequence and molecular graph representations.
  • Designing molecular optimization and generative modeling pipelines under structural and property constraints.
  • Work resulted in a paper published at an international conference, two EU-funded research grant applications, and multiple successful collaborations with academic and industrial partners.
• United Nations Development Programme (2024 - 2025)
  • Project Analyst (part-time)
  • Supported the development of AI deployment strategies for public sector use cases in healthcare and life sciences.
• Institute Mihajlo Pupin Automation & Control Systems (2023)
  • Internship
  • Researched time-series forecasting methods for electrical load prediction in power stations.
  • Developed regression-based methods for long-term load forecasting, and ML models for short-term predictions.
• Institute Mihajlo Pupin Computer Systems (2022)
  • Internship
  • Developed and optimized radar detection and tracking algorithms by implementing a high-performance assignment algorithm in C++, resulting in a substantial runtime improvement.
• Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (2021 - 2023)
  • University of Belgrade, School of Electrical Engineering
  • Assisted in laboratory exercises for undergraduate courses, including Neural Networks, Control Systems, Nonlinear Systems, Acquisition Systems for Electrophysiology, and Signals and Systems.

Skills

• Programming Languages
  • Python, Java, C++, C#, C, Bash
• Machine Learning & Data Science
  • PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, Scikit-learn, NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, SQL
• Signal Processing & Computer Vision
  • MATLAB/Octave, Simulink, OpenCV, LabVIEW
• Tools & Development
  • VS Code, Docker, Git, Linux, PyMol, LaTeX, Arduino

Publications

Message Passing Neural Networks for Sound Source Localization

M. Marijan, M. Bjelić, "Message Passing Neural Networks for Sound Source Localization" 33rd Telecommunications Forum TELFOR.

Impact of Protein Representations on Drug–Target Affinity Prediction

M. Marijan, I. Tanasijević, "Impact of Protein Representations on Drug–Target Affinity Prediction" 5th Belgrade Bioinformatics Conference.

A rule-based algorithm for automated renal calculus extraction on CT scans

M. Marijan, K. Milićević, O. Durutović, A. Filipović, M. Janković, "A rule-based algorithm for automated renal calculus extraction on CT scans" 67th Conference on Electrical, Electronic, and Computing Engineering ETRAN.

Musical signal segmentation method based on self-similarity matrices

M. Ratković, M. Marijan, T. Miljković, M. Bjelić, "Musical signal segmentation method based on self-similarity matrices" 67th Conference on Electrical, Electronic, and Computing Engineering ETRAN.

Awards & Honors

• Scholarship for extremely gifted students (2021 - 2024)
  • Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia
  • Awarded three times
• Student scholarship (2019 - 2021)
  • Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia
  • Awarded two times