Vaclav Snasel's research and development experience includes over 25 years in the Industry and Academia. He works in a multi-disciplinary environment involving artificial intelligence, multidimensional data indexing, conceptual lattice, information retrieval, semantic web, knowledge management, data compression, machine intelligence, neural network, web intelligence, data mining and applications to various real-world problems. He has authored/co-authored several refereed journal/conference papers and book chapters. In 2003 he became a visiting scientist in the Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Since 2003 he has been vice-dean for Research and Science at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. He has been a full professor since 2006. Before turning into a full time academic, he was working with industrial companies where he was involved in different industrial research and development projects for nearly 8 years. He received Ph.D. degree in Algebra and Geometry from Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic and a Master of Science degree from Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic.