Grzegorz Dudek received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Czestochowa University of Technology (CUT), Poland, in 2003 and a Habilitation in Computer Science from Lodz University of Technology, Poland, in 2013. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, CUT. He is the author of four books concerning machine learning for forecasting and evolutionary algorithms for unit commitment and over 100 scientific papers. He came third in the Global Energy Forecasting Competition 2014 (price forecasting track). His research interests include machine learning and artificial intelligence and their application to practical classification, regression, forecasting, and optimization problems.