Matjaz Kukar studied computer science at the University of Ljubliana, Slovenia, receiving his BSc in 1993, MSc in 1996 and PhD in 2001. He is now the assistant professor at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science there and is also a member of the Artificial Intelligence Department at the same faculty. His research interests include knowledge discovery in databases, machine learning, artificial intelligence and statistics. Professor Kukar is the (co) author of over 50 scientific papers in these fields.