Jiri STASTNY was born in 1953. He received his Ing. (MSc.) from Brno University of Technology (BUT) in 1978 and RNDr. (MSc.) from Masaryk University in Brno in 1987 and Ph.D. from Brno University of Technology (BUT) in 1984. He is the associate professor at BUT from 2006 and professor at Mendel University in Brno (MENDELU) from 2012. His research interests include image processing algorithms in real-time, artificial intelligence methods in modeling, simulation and optimization and neural networks, evolutionary and grammatical algorithms for data classification and prediction.