| I'm PhD candidate at the University of Plymouth doing research in artificial intelligence. This website is mostly dedicated to my research projects but you can find something about me, my hobbies and thoughts. I came to Plymouth in June 2004 shortly after UK entered EU. Initially, I came just to learn English and perhaps earn a little. Later on, on my 20th birthday, I met one professor from the University of Plymouth, who advised my to study there. At that time, I still had to complete a compulsory military service in Slovakia so I returned back to my country. I took several English courses back there and shortly after I got unconditional offer for computing course. During the three years of my studies I kept working at the same place where I worked before. However, I was working full-time night shifts instead of day shifts so that I could study during the day. In my second year I took a distant astronomy course at the University of Manchester, which farther boosted my interest in astronomy. This led to my final project being all about Mars and autonomous rovers that can navigate over unknown terrains. It seems that the project was successful as it helped me to get a 3-years PhD studentship on iTalk project, which I mention in PhD research section. After completing my undergraduate degree I was awarded a Revell Research Systems prize for being a top final year student on the BSc(Hons) Computing programme. | I have brought my family over here and my mum Odetta is a supervisor of one department at the place where I used to work. My sister Eva works at the same place. The rest of my family consisting of my father Miroslav, grandfather Ivan and others are in Slovakia. I hope you will find something interesting here and if you have any suggestions about the web-page and its contents please let me know. | 
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