Michal Kvasnica received his diploma in process control from the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (STUBA), Slovakia in 2000 and PhD in electrical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland in 2008. Since 2012 he is a tenured associate professor (docent) of automation at STUBA. Currently he is the head of the Institute of information engineering, automation, and mathematics at STUBA and the head of the Department of information engineering and process control, also at STUBA. In 2012 and 2019 he was a visiting researcher at the Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic. His research interests include decision making and control supported by artificial intelligence, embedded optimization and control, security and safety of cyber-physical systems, and control of human-in-the-loop systems. He is a co-author and the main developer of the MPT Toolbox for explicit model predictive control. His publication record includes 25 CC journal papers (including 5 in Automatica and 5 in IEEE Transactions journals), and more than 100 contributions in leading peer-reviewed international conferences. He has been a member of consortia for several EU-funded projects, including the EU FP7 ITN TEMPO project, and the EU FP6 project HYCON.