Nada Lavrač (born 1953)[1] is a Slovenian computer scientist, the former head of the Department of Knowledge Technologies of the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana.
Her research has involved expert systems, logic programming, and rule induction in data mining, especially for applications in medicine.
Lavrač studied technical mathematics at the University of Ljubljana, earning a bachelor's degree in 1978.
[5] She also retains her position at Nova Gorica,[4] and has taught in a master's program on statistics and network analysis at the Higher School of Economics in Russia.
[2] In 2022 she was the recipient of a Zois Award of the government of Slovenia, for "outstanding scientific achievements in the field of machine learning ... on original data representation methods for efficient machine learning".