Program: Data Science
Home Country: North Macedonia
Languages: Macedonian, English, Serbian

Risto Trajanov is a data science graduate student at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He is currently at Rice University, sponsored by the Fulbright Program, one of the most prestigious international scholarships of the US Department of State. Risto Trajanov graduated from the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Ss. Cyril and Methodius – Skopje with a “High Achievement” award for completing with a GPA higher than 9.5 (out of 10).

Since 2021, Risto Trajanov has been working as a data scientist, developing a product that would help investors detect greenwashing by providing a platform for monitoring the company’s ESG behavior. His professional career starts as a teaching mentor for high schoolers learning the programming language Java. He then takes a machine learning internship at the Macedonian Academy Of Sciences And Arts in Skopje. He conducted two machine learning internships, one in Loca Inc., a silicon valley start-up, and the other in Netcetera, a tech company. He was also active in the Non-governmental Sector; he volunteered as a computer science assistant in Smart-Up Innovation Lab, an NGO in Skopje. Risto Trajanov is the co-author of several research papers about optimization, machine learning, and explainable AI published in prestigious conferences like IEEE SSCI, EVO Apps, and PPSN.

What I like about Rice/Houston:

The campus and the people.

What I like about Fulbright:

A network full of broad minded and genius people.

Fun Fact:

Outgoing, funny, will talk about anything with open mind!