Michal Ptaszynski received his Master's degree from the University of Adam Mickiewicz, Poznan, Poland, in 2006, and his PhD in Information Science and Technology from Hokkaido University, Japan, in 2010. From 2010 to 2012, he was a JSPS postdoctoral research fellow at the High-Tech Research Center, Hokkai-Gakuen University, Japan. Currently, he is a professor at the Kitami Institute of Technology. His research interests include natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and affective computing, and he is a pioneer in the fields of automatic cyberbullying detection, Ainu language processing, and the science of emoticons. He is a senior member of IEEE, and a member of AAAI, and ACL.