Franjo Palajsa

Founder at Scinquest based in Karlovac, Croatia.

email franjo@scinquest.com

whatsapp +385917240162

About

Therapist turned mathematician turned computer scientist turned entrepreneur. Pursued autodidacticism following an inadequate formal education, mastering many subjects and skills, especially those relating to history and health science. Attempted to map the self-improvement industry. Solving the replication crisis one quest at a time.

Experience

Founder

  • Scinquest
  • Platform for Recreational Scientists
  • June 2022 – Present

Founder

  • Peactured
  • Mapping the Self-Improvement Industry
  • January 2019 – May 2022

Demonstrator

  • University of Zagreb
  • Methods of Mathematical Physics
  • March 2016 – July 2016

Demonstrator

  • University of Zagreb
  • Ordinary Differential Equations
  • October 2015 – February 2016

Workshop Instructor

  • Association of Technical Culture Karlovac
  • Teaching Scratch to 5th graders
  • June 2013

Skills

Tools & Technologies

  • TypeScript
  • Nuxt
  • Tailwind CSS
  • NestJS
  • Cypress
  • C
  • CUDA
  • MATLAB

Industry Knowledge

  • Mathematics
  • Computer Science
  • Machine Learning
  • Metascience

Projects

Thesis

  • Spectral Normalized Cuts in Weighted Graphs
  • MATLAB

Mozgalo

  • Unsupervised Image Classification
  • Convolutional Neural Network
  • CUDA
  • TensorFlow

kWayMerge

  • Merging sorted lists with arbitrary sizes
  • CUDA

Education

Autodidacticism

  • Various subjects, including history and health
  • 2018 – 2020

Master in Computer Science and Mathematics

  • University of Zagreb
  • Magna cum laude
  • 2015 – 2017

Bachelor in Mathematics

  • University of Zagreb
  • 2012 – 2015

Honors and Awards

Third place in the Mozgalo student competition

  • Data Mining
  • 2017

NZPUSS Scholarship

  • National Foundation for Student Support
  • 2017

State Scholarship

  • Ministry of Science and Education
  • 2013 – 2015

Third prize in the National Mathematics Competition

  • Ministry of Science and Education
  • 2012

Second prize in the National Mathematics Competition

  • Ministry of Science and Education
  • 2011

Hobbies and Interests