Josef Sivic received PhD from the University of Oxford in 2006 and the habilitation degree from Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris in 2014. After Phd he was a post-doctoral associate at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received the British Machine Vision Association Sullivan Thesis Prize, three test-of-time awards at major computer vision conferences, and an ERC Starting Grant. He currently serves on the board of the European Laboratory of Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) and as a chairman of the AICZECHIA national AI research initiative.