Jacek M. Czerniak, PhD, DSc, graduated from the Szczecin University of Technology, Poland, with an M.S.Eng. degree in Computer Science in 2000. He received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science (Faculty of Information Technology, Szczecin University of Technology) in 2005 and a D.Sc. in Computer Science and Telecommunications at the Institute of Systems Research (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw). He is an Associate Professor of Computer Science, Head of the Department of Intelligent Systems at the Faculty of Computer Science, Casimir the Great University in Bydgoszcz, Poland, and the author of more than 70 scientific publications including a monograph and a script specialist in the field of artificial intelligence. His scientific interests also include Business Intelligence, Big Data, and software engineering and cryptology. He completed a research internship at the Data Mining Laboratory, Montana State University, USA. He is a founding director of the AIRlab Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory. He is also founding editor for the journal Studies and Materials in Applied Computer Science. He has been awarded numerous times by the President of Casimir the Great University in Bydgoszcz. He has worked at the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Naval Academy, and several private universities. Since the beginning of his career, he has been cooperating with industry, among others as a programmer, a data analyst, and a data scientist.