Niko Colnerič is coming from Mestinje, in the East of Slovenia. From an early age, he liked mathematics and physics and after finishing high school in Celje, he obtained his BSc in Computer Science in Ljubljana. Currently, Niko is a first-year PhD student at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science where his main focus is on data mining challenges and high-dimensional data analysis. In his free time, he loves cycling and paragliding.