Next, he received an MS degree in computer science from University of Houston in 1993 under the mentorship of prof. dr. Albert Mo Kim Cheng.

Blaž Zupan teaches artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining and bioinformatics at the University of Ljubljana and at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

In the Bioinformatics Laboratory that he runs at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science in Ljubljana, he leads the development of the open-source machine learning tool Orange.

[9] Blaž Zupan received already in primary and secondary school several awards at national and international competitions in mathematics and life sciences.

Res Publica, Financial Times, Visegrad Fund, and Google enlisted him in the Top 100 Most Influential Innovators of Central and Eastern Europe (2016).