Tjaša Heričko

Teaching

Lecturer for the following courses:

• Data Technologies and Services (1st year, IPT MAG, second-cycle Bologna study programme), 2026/27–
• Business Intelligence and Data Quality (1st year, IPT MAG, second-cycle Bologna study programme), 2026/27–
• Data Management (1st year, BI MAG, second-cycle Bologna study programme), 2026/27–
• Data Warehousing (3rd year, IPT VS, first-cycle professional higher education Bologna study programme), 2026/27–
• Big Data Architectures (3rd year, IPT UN, first-cycle university Bologna study programme), 2025/26–
• Databases II (3rd year, IPT UN, first-cycle university Bologna study programme, for international students participating in the Erasmus+ international student exchange programme), 2025/26

Teaching assistant for the following courses:

• Data Management (1st year, BI MAG, second-cycle Bologna study programme), 2026/27–
• Data Technologies and Services (1st year, IPT MAG, second-cycle Bologna study programme), 2025/26–
• Big Data Architectures (3rd year, IPT UN, first-cycle university Bologna study programme), 2024/25–
• Practicum: Web Systems and Content (3rd year, IPT UN; 3rd year, MK UN; first-cycle university Bologna study programme), 2020/21–
• Databases II (2nd year, IPT UN, first-cycle university Bologna study programme), 2024/25
• Databases I (1st year, IPT UN; 1st year, TK UN; first-cycle university Bologna study programme), 2023/24–2024/25
• Technologies for Ubiquitous Applications (1st year, MK MAG, second-cycle Bologna study programme), 2023/24–2024/25
• Ubiquitous Systems in Media (1st year, MK MAG, second-cycle Bologna study programme), 2023/24–2024/25
• Dynamic Web Solutions (3rd year, MK UN; 2nd year, IPT UN; first-cycle university Bologna study programme), 2023/24–2024/25
• Practicum 1 (1st year, IPT UN, first-cycle university Bologna study programme), 2023/24–2024/25

Selected Scientific Publications

• Heričko, T., Brdnik, S., & Turkanović, M. (2025). Vpeljava tabelaričnih tokov v podatkovno arhitekturo. In L. Pavlič, T. Beranič & M. Heričko (Eds.), OTS 2025 Sodobne informacijske tehnologije in storitve: Zbornik 28. konference, Maribor, 3. in 4. september 2025 (pp. 13–24). University of Maribor Press. https://doi.org/10.18690/um.feri.7.2025.2
• Heričko, T., Šumak, B., & Karakatič, S. (2025). Commit classification for software change intention categorization through multimodal machine learning. In G. Dzemyda, J. Bernatavičienė & J. Kacprzyk (Eds.), Data Science in Applications (Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 1206). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-88486-3_9
• Heričko, T., Šumak, B., & Karakatič, S. (2024). Commit-level software change intent classification using a pre-trained transformer-based code model. Mathematics, 12(7), 1012. https://doi.org/10.3390/math12071012
• Heričko, T., & Šumak, B. (2023). Commit classification into software maintenance activities: A systematic literature review. In 2023 IEEE 47th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC) (pp. 1646–1651). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC57700.2023.00254
• Karakatič, S., Miloševič, A., & Heričko, T. (2022). Software system comparison with semantic source code embeddings. Empirical Software Engineering, 27, 70. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-022-10122-9
• Heričko, T. (2023). Automatic data-driven software change identification via code representation learning. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE ’23) (pp. 319–323). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3593434.3593505
• Heričko, T., & Šumak, B. (2022). Analyzing linter usage and warnings through mining software repositories: A longitudinal case study of JavaScript packages. In 2022 45th Jubilee International Convention on Information, Communication and Electronic Technology (MIPRO) (pp. 1375–1380). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.23919/MIPRO55190.2022.9803554
• Brdnik, S., Heričko, T., & Šumak, B. (2022). Intelligent user interfaces and their evaluation: A systematic mapping study. Sensors, 22(15), 5830. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22155830
• Heričko, T., & Šumak, B. (2022). Enforcing consistent code style in a repository while allowing developer-specific preferences in local workspaces: An experience report. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE ’22) (pp. 274–275). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3530019.3534985

International Projects

•  2024-2027, SMART ERA, SMART community-led transition for Europe's Rural Areas, HORIZON

Honours and Awards

• Best Presentation Award at the International Conference on Knowledge Management in Organizations (KMO) 2025
• Best Presentation Award at the International Conference on Software Engineering and Information Management (ICSIM) 2023
• Best Paper Award at the Software Quality Analysis, Monitoring, Improvement, and Applications (SQAMIA) 2022 workshop
• Best Paper Award at the Software and Systems Engineering conference of the MIPRO 2022 International Convention
• Rector's Award for the best student among all study programmes at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, in her generation
• 2nd place in the competition for the best student project in the field of Informatics in the year 2020 (Days of Slovenian Informatics, Slovenian Society Informatika)
• Award for the development of extracurricular activities at University of Maribor in 2020
• Award for the best postgraduate student of Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, in the 2018/2019 academic year
• Award for the best graduate student of Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, in the 2016/2017 academic year

Visits and Lectures at Foreign Institutions

• Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland (April–June 2026)
• Department of Business and Mathematics, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden (April 2024)
• Faculty of Education, Palacký University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic (February 2024)
• Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, as part of the OxML Summer School (July 2024)
• Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, as part of the OxML Summer School (July 2023)
• Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics, University of Udine, Udine, Italy, as part of the AI-DLDA Summer School (July 2023)
• Faculty of Informatics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary (May 2023)
• Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia (June–July 2021)

Reviewer for Academic Journals

• Automated Software Engineering, Springer Nature
• Cluster Computing, Springer Nature
• Data in Brief, Elsevier
• Discover Applied Sciences, Springer Nature
• Discover Artificial Intelligence, Springer Nature
• Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier
• Expert Systems with Applications, Elsevier
• IET Software, Wiley
• Information and Software Technology, Elsevier
• Information Fusion, Elsevier
• Journal of Medical Internet Research, JMIR Publications
• PeerJ Computer Science, PeerJ
• Scientific Reports, Springer Nature
• SN Computer Science, Springer Nature
• Software Impacts, Elsevier
• SoftwareX, Elsevier
• The Journal of Supercomputing, Springer Nature