Dimitar Stefanov at the European Conference on Edge AI in Malta

Dimitar Stefanov.

From satellite images
to decisions on the ground.

I’m an AI Lead at Sunesis in Ljubljana, working on solar forecasting, distributed learning, and intelligent infrastructure. My projects explore how machine learning can support the critical operational decisions in energy and computing systems.

selected work

HEDGE-IoT project logo

Hedge-IoT

Solar forecasting · Distributed energy resources

Satellite-informed deep learning for solar forecasting and distributed energy resource optimization, for Järvi-Suomen Energia.

dAIEDGE programme logo

EDGEWISE

EEAI, 2026 · Federated learning · Graph neural networks

GNN-assisted scheduling for federated learning on heterogeneous edge devices.

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Headlight AI Module

Kubernetes · Intelligent autoscaling

A Kubernetes-native system for intelligent autoscaling based on custom service metrics. The second version accompanies a SoftwareX submission, currently in review.

Participants at the ENFIELD Green AI workshop in Brdo pri Kranju

ENFIELD

Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenia · 2025

I presented my master’s thesis work on forecasting solar power production using satellite images at the ENFIELD workshop on Green AI and sustainable energy systems, co-organized by Iskraemeco.

papers & software

applied work

Electric Power Research Institute Milan Vidmar

Slovenia · Solar forecasting

Solar forecasting system for day-ahead trading for the Slovenian transmission system operator.

background

Education

Master’s degree in Data Science
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Research practice

For the Reproducibility Challenge 2021, I reproduced the empirical results of an ICML paper on coherent probabilistic forecasting for hierarchical time series.

Recognition

Third place with my team in the 2021 DataScience@UL-FRI competition, working on click prediction with a problem proposed by Zemanta.

Silver medal at the 2017 Macedonian Mathematics Olympiad.