Márk Jelasity is a full professor and department head of the Department of Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence, University of Szeged. He obtained his PhD degree in Leiden, the Netherlands, in 2001. He has worked in various areas including heuristic search, distributed computing systems, machine learning, and the intersections of these. Currently, he is interested in fully decentralized machine learning algorithms over IoT devices, and the problem of adversarial examples in machine learning. He visited Cornell as a Fulbright Researcher, he won a 10 year best paper award at Middleware, and he was awarded the Bolyai plaquette by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.