Tibor Sloboda

Profile

AI researcher, consultant, and systems engineer working across machine learning, data engineering, infrastructure, and scientific computing. Experience includes technical leadership, hands-on implementation, production AI systems, and research in medical imaging and chemistry.

Available for consulting, contracts, advisory work, research collaborations, and fractional leadership. Open to exceptional full-time opportunities.

Experience

aleph0 · Business Owner

May 2025–present · Slovakia

Separate venture developing low-level AI software for heterogeneous hardware, particularly edge systems. Work includes hardware-specific compiled models, a single-binary runtime, and model optimization. In development, intended for open source.

NetFire · AI engineering & leadership

June 2023–present

VP of Artificial Intelligence Strategy, October 2024–present. Previously Applied Data Science Lead, January–October 2024, and Applied Data Science Engineer, June 2023–January 2024.

Technical strategy, engineering leadership, and hands-on prototyping across AI products and infrastructure. See selected work for examples of my engineering and leadership responsibilities.

Euforion · Lead AI Engineer

June 2024–May 2025

Image-plagiarism detection, AI-based watermarking, and backend development for artists’ image data. Distributed GPU processing with load balancing and dynamic batching.

MLTox.online · Data Scientist & Machine Learning Engineer

September 2021–January 2023

Machine learning research for phototoxicity prediction, including descriptor investigation, alongside versioning and CI/CD for the public web application.

Education

PhD candidate, Artificial Intelligence · September 2023–present
Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies, Slovak University of Technology. Research focus on multimodal systems and generative models.

Master’s degree, Artificial Intelligence · 2021–2023
Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies, Slovak University of Technology.

Bachelor’s degree, Computer Science · 2018–2021
Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies, Slovak University of Technology.

Research

My PhD research at FIIT STU focuses on multimodal systems and generative models. I am also interested in the mathematical foundations of multimodal learning and the practical constraints of running models on different hardware. Earlier work applied machine learning to medical imaging and phototoxicity prediction; my publications also include guarded query routing for LLMs.

More about my research and publications →

Selected honours

Student of the Year · November 2024
Slovak University of Technology, faculty-level recognition for research results and contributions.

Dean’s Award · November 2024
FIIT STU, for research results.

Slovak Academy of Sciences Award · June 2023
Issued by ÚI SAV, for research results and publication activity.

Dean’s Award · June 2023
FIIT STU, for diploma thesis work and results.

TPCup winning team · June 2022
FIIT STU, team software-product competition.

Languages & availability

Fluent English, Czech, and Slovak. Based in Slovakia; remote preferred, visits possible. Up to 80 hours/month, with an immediate start possible.