I received MSc in artificial intelligence and PhD in applied informatics from Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. I have been teaching and doing research in the area of cognitive science, which allows me to combine my professional background with my long-standing interest in human cognition and psychology. I mostly do computational models of cognitive phenomena related to knowledge representation and meaning construction, language origins and acquisition, cognitive semantics and qualitative reasoning. I have been collaborating with researchers at the University of Otago and Soul Machines Ltd. in New Zealand, which has been a very enriching experience for me, both professionally and personally.

I am interested in a wider impact of AI on society and ethical aspects of cognitive technologies. I am active in raising public awareness about these issues. See my public outreach page (in Slovak).

I am a senior member of the Cognition and Neural Computation Research Group and a founding member of Slovak Cognitive Science Society.

I supervise PhD students of computer science, master students of cognitive science (mIKV) and applied informatics (mAIN) and bachelor students of applied informatics (bAIN). See the list of ongoing and completed theses.

I like to spend my leisure time outdoors or by making and playing various kinds of traditional Slovak flutes and bagpipes.