Benedikt Perak

Benedikt Perak is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka, where he teaches in the Department of Cultural Studies and leads the Laboratory for Research of Cultural Complexity. His work operates at the intersection of computational linguistics, cultural theory, and artificial intelligence – spanning academic research, entrepreneurship, and public engagement. He is the author of Communication in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: The Development of Large Language Models and Communication Agents (FFRI, 2025), a monograph examining how AI systems are reshaping human communication and cultural transmission. As co-founder and CEO of Syntagent d.o.o., he directs the development of AI platforms across domains ranging from language education and gastronomy to digital heritage and automated knowledge extraction, bridging research with deployable real-world systems. He leads the lifelong learning programme “AI in Communication and Business Processes” and coordinates the DARIAH-HR working group on AI applications in the humanities. His current research explores how structured machine memory – knowledge graphs, agentic architectures, and computational models of meaning – can encode, interconnect, and preserve cultural heritage across languages and generations.

CV updated on 2026-08-18.