Mária Bieliková is a Slovak computer scientist who specializes in human-computer interaction and trustworthy

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...

. She is the CEO of the Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies (KInIT).

Biography

Mária Bieliková was born in

Ilava Ilava (, ) is a town in the Trenčín Region, northwestern Slovakia. Name The name is of uncertain origin. The historic medieval names were ''Lewe'', ''Lewa'' (the same historic name as Levice), ''Lewa de cidca fluviom Vag'', later ''Ilava''. ...

. She studied at the

Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (STU) () is the biggest and oldest university of technology in Slovakia. In the 2012 Academic Ranking of World Universities it was ranked in the first 150 in Computer Science, the only university in ...

, where she obtained the engineer degree in 1989 and PhD. in 1995. Following graduation, she became an assistant professor at the Slovak University of Technology. In 2005 she became one of the youngest full professors in Slovakia. Between 2015 and 2020 she was the dean of the

Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies The Faculty of Informatics and Information Technology () is one of the faculties of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. The Faculty was created in 2003 by separating from the Faculty of Electri ...

of the Slovak Technical University. In 2020 Bieliková lost the election for the second term as the dean and was subsequently fired from her professor job by her successor Ivan Kotuliak. The official grounds for termination of her employment were irregularities in accounting of payments to student research assistants. About 30 staff and several students of the Faculty of Informatics left the university in protest. In response to the protests, Kotuliak offered to restore Bieliková's professorship. Nonetheless, she turned down the offer. Following her departure from the university, she founded the Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies (KInIT), a think tank, with seed funding provided by Slovak companies active in the IT sector, including the

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internet security company and

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Service

Bieliková is the chair of the Slovak Permanent Committee for Ethics and Regulation of AI and a former member of the High Level Expert Group on AI established by

European Commission The European Commission (EC) is the primary Executive (government), executive arm of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with a number of European Commissioner, members of the Commission (directorial system, informall ...

and of the board of governors of the European Commission's

Joint Research Centre The Joint Research Centre (JRC) is the European Commission's science and knowledge service which employs scientists to carry out research in order to provide independent scientific advice and support to European Union (EU) policy. Leadersh ...

Awards

In 2010, she was awarded the Science and Technology Personality award by the Minister of Education Eugen Jurzyca. In 2016, she was awarded the IT personality of the year by the PC Revue magazine. In 2024, Bieliková was awarded the

Order of Ľudovít Štúr The Order of Ľudovít Štúr () is the third highest Slovak state decoration (after the Order of the White Double Cross and the Orders, decorations, and medals of Slovakia#Andrej Hlinka Order, Order of Andrej Hlinka) conferred by the President ...

, 2nd class by the president

Zuzana Čaputová Zuzana Čaputová (; Strapáková; born 21 June 1973) is a Slovak politician, lawyer and environmental activist who served as the fifth president of Slovakia from 2019 to 2024. Čaputová is the first woman to hold the presidency, as well as the ...

for her contributions to development of Slovakia in the scientific and technical fields.

References

1966 births Living people People from Ilava Slovak computer scientists Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava alumni 21st-century Slovak scientists {{Authority control