Josip Krapac

AI Researcher

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain23 yrs 6 mos experience
Highly StableAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Expert in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.
  • Led AI initiatives at Zalando, enhancing search and conversational capabilities.
  • Strong background in Computer Vision and deep learning technologies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a specialist in E-commerce AI solutions with a focus on Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision.

Contact

josip.krapac@zalando.deLinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Natural Language Processing (nlp)Machine LearningConversational AiComputer Vision

Other Skills

AlgorithmsArtificial IntelligenceC (Programming Language)C++Data MiningDeep LearningImage ProcessingInformation RetrievalLaTeXMathematical ModelingMatlabMultimodal retrievalOpenCVProgrammingPyTorch

Experience

Preply

Principal Applied AI Scientist

Feb 2026 – Present · 1 mo · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain · Hybrid

Zalando

4 roles

Principal Applied Scientist

Mar 2024 – Dec 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos

Natural Language Processing (NLP)Python (Programming Language)Machine LearningDeep Learning

Applied Science Manager

Jul 2022 – Mar 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Zalando Search (Neural embeddings, Vector search) and Zalando Assistant (AI agents, LLM-based assistant, LLM evaluation)
Natural Language Processing (NLP)Python (Programming Language)Machine LearningDeep LearningConversational AIMultimodal retrieval

Applied Science Lead

Promoted

Aug 2021 – Jun 2022 · 10 mos

  • NLP Center of AI (Text classification, Few-shot classification), Zalando Search (Neural embeddings, Vector search)
Natural Language Processing (NLP)Python (Programming Language)Machine LearningDeep Learning

Senior Applied Scientist

Jun 2019 – Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Zalando Research (Neural embeddings, Hyperbolic embeddings, Vector search), NLP Center of AI
Natural Language Processing (NLP)Computer VisionPython (Programming Language)Machine LearningDeep Learning

Mobius labs gmbh

Senior Research Scientist

Feb 2018 – May 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos · Berlin Area, Germany

  • Co-founder
Computer VisionPython (Programming Language)Machine LearningDeep Learning

Eyeem

R&D engineer

Apr 2017 – Feb 2018 · 10 mos · Berlin Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany

Computer VisionPython (Programming Language)Machine LearningDeep Learning

Fer

Post-doc

Jul 2013 – Apr 2017 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Zagreb, Croatia

  • Weakly supervised object localization and semantic segmentation.
Computer VisionPython (Programming Language)Machine LearningDeep Learning

Lear team, inria grenoble

2 roles

Post-doc

Oct 2011 – Jul 2013 · 1 yr 9 mos · Rennes Area, France

  • Image classification and instance-level object classification.
Computer VisionPython (Programming Language)Machine LearningDeep Learning

PhD student

Jul 2009 – Apr 2011 · 1 yr 9 mos · Grenoble Area, France

  • Research and development of image representations for image ranking and image classification.
Computer VisionPython (Programming Language)Machine Learning

Université de caen normandie

PHD Graduate Student

Jan 2008 – Jun 2009 · 1 yr 5 mos · Caen, Normandy, France

  • Research and development of image representations for image ranking and image classification.
Computer VisionMachine Learning

University of zagreb, faculty of electrical engineering and computing

Research and Teaching Assistant

Jan 2002 – Jan 2009 · 7 yrs · Zagreb, Croatia

  • Research and development of background subtraction methods: modeling the background in video sequences for segmentation of moving objects.
Machine LearningComputer Vision

University of zagreb, faculty of mechanical engineering and naval architecutre

Research assistant

Oct 2001 – Dec 2002 · 1 yr 2 mos · Zagreb, Croatia

  • Devising a method for detection and classification of faults on injected molded products.
Computer VisionMachine Learning

Education

Université de Caen Normandie

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) — Computer Science

Jan 2008 – Jan 2011

FER

M.Sc. — Computer science

Jan 2001 – Jan 2006

FER

B.Sc. — Computer science

Jan 1996 – Jan 2001

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