Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, Slovenia Researcher, Panevropa d.o.o., Maribor, Slovenia.

Izidor Mlakar received his Ph.D. degree in Electronics from the University of Maribor in Slovenia. He is currently the owner of company A.I. Solutions d.o.o., and is employed as managing and development director of the company. During last two years he has been actively engaged in EU founded project titled SandS. He was also engaged in COST2102 project, regarding cross-modal analysis of verbal and non-verbal communication. His research interests include embodied conversational agents, co-verbal behavior analysis and synthesis, co-verbal synchrony, finite-state machines, and machine learning algorithms, advanced multimodal interfaces, internet of things, and smart buildings and smart cities.