Prof. Tomáš Skopal received his PhD in 2004 from Technical University of Ostrava and currently is the vice-rector for IT at Charles University, Prague. His research interests include similarity search, multimedia retrieval, database indexing, video analytics. He is an author of over 120 research papers and was principal investigator of multiple basic and applied research projects, and H-index 25. His international experience includes stays/teaching at Univerzity of Konstanz, Univesrity of Passau and University of Chile. He has supervised 8 PhD students and serves at scientific boards at several universities.