Matija Novak is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Organization and Informatics, University of Zagreb, Croatia, where he has worked since 2013. Born in Čakovec, Croatia, in 1987, he earned his bachelor’s degree in informatics in 2008 and master’s degree in informatics in 2010 from the Faculty of Organization and Informatics, University of Zagreb. He received his Ph.D. in social sciences, specializing in information and communication sciences, from the University of Zagreb in 2020. His professional experience spans web and mobile application development, voice services administration, product management, business consulting in Switzerland and Germany, and software systems architecture. He contributed to the development of the Croatian cadastral web portal. He has authored over fifty scientific and professional papers. His research focuses on software engineering education, web technologies, and source code similarity and plagiarism detection. He is a member of the faculty's Laboratory for Web Architectures, Technologies, Services, and Interfaces and has participated in DIP2Future, PiPi, SeEduOpsAI, E-DigiLit, and From Zero to STEM Hero. He volunteers with Young IT Experts, contributes to the Medimurje IT Club, and collaborates with the Association for Down Syndrome in Medimurje County. In 2023, he supervised a student project that received the University of Zagreb Rector's Award.