Jožef Stefan Institute 
Ljubljana, Slovenia

Petra Kralj Novak is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Knowledge Technologies, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her research is focused on knowledge discovery from databases including interpretable AI models.  For the past seven years, she has analysed social and mainstream media and their mediated sentiment. Her avantgarde research on the role of emojis in conveying sentiment is considered as the base reference for emoji analysis. She is the coordinator of the EU project IMSyPP: Innovative Monitoring  Systems  and  Prevention  Policies of Online Hate  Speech  (2020-2022).  She regularly  serves on program committees of major academic and industrial conferences ICDM, ICML, DS, IDA, and Southern Data Science. I am PC co-chair of the 22nd International Conference on Discovery Science (2019, Split, Croatia). She lectures widely to both academic and industrial audiences.