Gjorgji Strezoski

Gjorgji Strezoski

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Summary

Data and ML leader with a PhD in Machine Learning and AI from the University of Amsterdam. Currently Chief Data Officer at New Black, building data platforms and ML-ready pipelines for real-time insights. Serial entrepreneur with a successful exit as CTO of StoreShippers, and co-founder of Zero-G and Simpli Development. Research background spans computer vision, multi-task learning, and cultural heritage analytics, with publications in top venues (ICCV, CVIU, TOMM, ACM MM) and collaborations with institutions like the Rijksmuseum. Bridges the gap between cutting-edge research and production-ready systems.

Outside of work, I make music and DJ, ferment and craft homemade hot sauces, skate, climb, and take care of my golden retriever, Willie Nelson.

Education

University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Doctor of Philosophy - Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Ss Cyril and Methodius University Skopje, Macedonia
Master of Science - Software Design and Engineering
Ss Cyril and Methodius University Skopje, Macedonia
Bachelor of Science - Informatics and Computer Engineering

Professional Experience

New Black 路 newblack.io Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Chief Data Officer

Leading a team of 3 engineers on the Data & ML direction, building practical systems to deliver insights in real time. Work includes multi-model recommenders using pruned transformers and statistical models, data platform engineering for ML-ready pipelines (Databricks, PyTorch, ggml, vLLM), and internal data tool development and deployment.

Data Lead

Laid the foundations of New Black's data platform, designing core architecture for reliable, scalable data use. Implemented the medallion architecture across the organization, delivered end-to-end data pipelines from ingestion to live dashboards, and established the backbone for analytics, reporting, and machine learning capabilities.

Zero-G 路 zero-g.dev Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Co-Founder

Building high-reliability systems and cost-efficient software solutions for e-commerce and logistics.

Tolion Health, Inc. 路 tolion.com Prague, Czechia (Remote)
Model Driven Interaction Consultant

Design of user interactions with an LLM through visual and conversational alignment, building a mental health support agent powered by custom RAG flows and a medical knowledge database.

StoreShippers Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder

Designed and developed an international shipping platform software that converted regular stores into fulfilment warehouses for greener more efficient shipping. Led an interdisciplinary team of engineers and designers to scale across 15 countries in less than 10 months. Exited in March 2024.

Simpli Development Skopje, North Macedonia
Founder

Founded a software development company with 5 engineers specializing in Django and surveillance image stitching. Design and develop bespoke applications for web and mobile platforms.

Ss Cyril and Methodius University 路 finki.ukim.mk Skopje, North Macedonia
Visiting Professor

Collaboration on scientific research in the computer vision, machine learning and multimedia domains.

ViSenze 路 visenze.com Singapore, Republic of Singapore
Research Scientist

Built a realtime instance segmentation engine for a large dataset of rigid objects under diverse controlled lighting conditions for training a model that powers such characters a AR game.

Paradox 路 paradox.nl The Randstad, Netherlands
Research Scientist for Data Driven Exhibitions

Developed attribute-driven deep models for representing semantics and contextual understanding behind Frank van der Salm's work for the N_O_W_H_E_R_E exhibition.

Rijksmuseum 路 rijksmuseum.nl Amsterdam, Netherlands
Research Scientist - Computer Vision

Research partner for the VISTORY project at the premier art museum of the Netherlands, applying computer vision to the museum's collection. Hosted and participated in interdisciplinary colloquiums with professionals from diverse domains. Work resulted in scientific publications and graduated master students in AI and Computer Vision.

CommitChange San Francisco Bay Area (Remote)
Backend Developer and Data Scientist

Rails backend development and machine learning on proprietary data.

Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering 路 maestra-project.eu Skopje, North Macedonia
Research Scientist

Machine learning, deep learning, image processing and data science research as part of the MAESTRA Project.

Selected Publications

G. Strezoski, N. van Noord, M. Worring, "MATTE: Multi-task multi-scale attention", Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), 2023

G. Strezoski, N. Van Noord, M. Worring, "Learning Task Relatedness in Multi-Task Learning for Images in Context", International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), 2019

G. Strezoski, N. Van Noord, M. Worring, "Many Task Learning with Task Routing", IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019 (Oral)

G. Strezoski, M. Worring, "OmniArt: A Large-scale Artistic Benchmark", ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), 2018

G. Strezoski, I. Groenen, J. Besenbruch, M. Worring, "ArtSight: An Artistic Data Exploration Engine", Demo Track at ACM Multimedia Conference (ACM MM), 2018

G. Strezoski, I. Groenen, J. Besenbruch, M. Worring, "Plug-and-Play Interactive Deep Network Visualization", Visual Analytics for Deep Learning Workshop at IEEE VAST, 2017

Teaching

Information Visualization University of Amsterdam
Master AI, Master IS
Fundamentals of Data Science University of Amsterdam
Master AI, Master IS
Software Engineering Ss Cyril and Methodius, Skopje
Bachelor in Computer Science

Notable Supervised Master Students

Corine Jacobs University of Amsterdam

Generative Adversarial Networks for Decorative Initial Image Generation

Gert Boer VU University, Amsterdam

Multi-task Initial Classification

Kieran O'Driscoll University of Amsterdam

Art Inspired Fashion with Generative Adversarial Networks

Rogier Knoester University of Amsterdam

Facial Sentiment Analysis in Artistic Painting

Academic Service

ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) 2026 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Web Chair
Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU)
Reviewer
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)
Reviewer
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