Jan Karásek received a BSc degree in Teleinformatics in 2007, a MSc degree in Telecommunications and Informatics in 2009, a MSc degree in Corporate Management and Economics in 2010 from the Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic. Currently, he is a PhD candidate in his last year of study at the Department of Telecommunications at the same university. The theme of his PhD thesis is the Optimization of Distributed Processes Using Evolutionary Algorithms. At the same time, he is employed with the Department of Telecommunications as a project manager and he is also involved in teaching of Theoretical Informatics. During the study period he visited the University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland for a half-year PhD exchange stay focused on problems related to genetic programming applications. He is also an author of the Java Evolution Framework (JEF) which is based on the grammar guided genetic programming distributed under the science and business friendly license - LGPL. His research interests include: artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, evolutionary computation techniques, process optimization and automation, genetic algorithms & genetic programming and their real-world application, heterogeneous and parallel programming, image processing and text processing.Specialties: Artifficial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Mining, C#, Java, OOP, UML, SQL.