Hi there!
My name is Marek. People also call me mr.Shu. It may have something to do with my last name.
I currently lead the Data Team at Slido, were we try to change the way audiences interact. Previously, I was helping to build a private search engine at DuckDuckGo.
My other occupation is teaching at the
Comenius University in Bratislava.
When it comes to research, my interests are in
NLP and applications
of Computer Vision and generally Machine Learning to interesting
practical problems.
- July 2025
- The first comprehensive Slovak NLU benchmark, skLEP, was presented at ACL 2025. See the paper for details and the repo for the toolkit.
- January 2025
- RAGthoven, our toolkit for RAG experimentation, was presented at COLING 2025. Check out the paper and try it from the repo.
- December 2023
- The prompt IDE we use at Slido, prompterator, made it to EMNLP 2023. Do try it out by following the instructions in the repo and check out the paper!
I used to build robots, especially soccer playing ones. Now I try to give back by helping others start with that in RoboCupJunior.
Whenever time permits, I also like to write. Sometimes on my blog. Here is a small sample of the last pieces I published:
- Five things I wish I knew the day I started University
- How to get the most out of RoboCup(Junior)
- How I built an app for FirefoxOS
I am a big proponent of free and open-source software. Most of my contributions can be found on GitHub.
Should you like to stay in contact, let's do that via Twitter, LinkedIn, GitHub or mail.