Marek stumbled upon AI as a teenager when building soccer-playing robots and quickly realized he is not smart enough to do all the programming by himself. Since then, he's been figuring out ways to make machines learn by themselves, particularly from text. He currently serves as the Principal Data Scientist at Slido (part of Cisco), improving the way meetings are run around the world. Previously, he's been helping to build a private search engine at DuckDuckGo.

Staying true to his roots, he tries to provide others with a chance to have a similar experience by organizing the RoboCupJunior competition and teaching aspiring Data Scientists about things they may not learn otherwise: from cutting edge NLP methods to the strange world of UNIX shells.