I. - Basic information

I.1 - Surname

Šuppa

I.2 - Name

Marek

I.3 - Degrees

Mgr.

I.4 - Year of birth

1994

I.5 - Name of the workplace

Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics

I.6 - Address of the workplace

Mlynská dolina F1 842 48 Bratislava

I.7 - Position

Lecturer

I.8 - E-mail address

marek.suppa@fmph.uniba.sk

I.9 - Hyperlink to the entry of a person in the Register of university staff

https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/31973

I.11 - ORCID iD

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5887-0696

II. - Higher education and further qualification growth

II.1 - First degree of higher education

II.a - Name of the university or institution

Comenius University in Bratislava

II.b - Year

2016

II.c - Study field and programme

Computer Science

II.2 - Second degree of higher education

II.a - Name of the university or institution

Comenius University in Bratislava

II.b - Year

2018

II.c - Study field and programme

Computer Science

II.3 - Third degree of higher education

II.4 - Associate professor

II.5 - Professor

II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

III. - Current and previous employment

IV. - Development of pedagogical, professional, language, digital and other skills

V. - Overview of activities within the teaching career at the university

V.1 - Overview of the profile courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes

V.2 - Overview of the responsibility for the delivery, development and quality assurance of the study programme or its part at the university in the current academic year

V.3 - Overview of the responsibility for the development and quality of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure in the current academic year

V.4 - Overview of supervised final theses

V.4.1 - Number of currently supervised theses

V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)

V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)

V.4.2 - Number of defended theses

V.5 - Overview of other courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes

V.5.a - Name of the course	V.5.b - Study programme	V.5.c - Degree	V.5.d - Field of study
Natural Language Processing	Cognitive Science	II.

VI. - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1 - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs and the corresponding citations

VI.1.1 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1.a - Overall

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases

VI.1.a - Overall

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1.a - Overall

309

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

304

VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases

VI.1.a - Overall

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level

VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs

Mubashara Akhtar, Anka Reuel, Prajna Soni, Sanchit Ahuja, Pawan Sasanka Ammanamanchi, Ruchit Rawal, Vilém Zouhar, Srishti Yadav, Chenxi Whitehouse, Dayeon Ki, Jennifer Mickel, Leshem Choshen, Marek Suppa, Jan Batzner, Jenny Chim, Jeba Sania, Yanan Long, Hossein A. Rahmani, Christina Q Knight, Yiyang Nan, Jyoutir Raj, Yu Fan, Shubham Singh, Subramanyam Sahoo, Eliya Habba, Usman Gohar, Siddhesh Milind Pawar, Robert Scholz, Arjun Subramonian, Jingwei Ni, Mykel Kochenderfer, Sanmi Koyejo, Mrinmaya Sachan, Stella Biderman, Zeerak Talat, Avijit Ghosh, Irene Solaiman (2026). When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation. Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning, PMLR 306, 1602–1629. https://proceedings.mlr.press/v306/akhtar26a.html

Kenneth Enevoldsen, Isaac Chung, Imene Kerboua, Márton Kardos, Ashwin Mathur, David Stap, Jay Gala, Wissam Siblini, Dominik Krzemiński, Genta Winata, Saba Sturua, Saiteja Utpala, Mathieu Ciancone, Marion Schaeffer, Diganta Misra, Shreeya Dhakal, Jonathan Rystrøm, Roman Solomatin, Ömer Çağatan, Akash Kundu, Martin Bernstorff, Shitao Xiao, Akshita Sukhlecha, Bhavish Pahwa, Rafał Poświata, Kranthi Kiran GV, Shawon Ashraf, Daniel Auras, Björn Plüster, Jan Harries, Loïc Magne, Isabelle Mohr, Dawei Zhu, Hippolyte Gisserot-Boukhlef, Tom Aarsen, Jan Kostkan, Konrad Wojtasik, Taemin Lee, Marek Suppa, Crystina Zhang, Roberta Rocca, Mohammed Hamdy, Andrianos Michail, John Yang, Manuel Faysse, Aleksei Vatolin, Nandan Thakur, Manan Dey, Dipam Vasani, Pranjal Chitale, Simone Tedeschi, Nguyen Tai, Artem Snegirev, Mariya Hendriksen, Michael Günther, Mengzhou Xia, Weijia Shi, Xing Han Lu, Jordan Clive, Gayatri K, Maksimova Anna, Silvan Wehrli, Maria Tikhonova, Henil Panchal, Aleksandr Abramov, Malte Ostendorff, Zheng Liu, Simon Clematide, Lester James V. Miranda, Alena Fenogenova, Guangyu Song, Ruqiya Bin Safi, Wen-Ding Li, Alessia Borghini, Federico Cassano, Lasse Hansen, Sara Hooker, Chenghao Xiao, Vaibhav Adlakha, Orion Weller, Siva Reddy, Niklas Muennighoff (2025). MMTEB: Massive Multilingual Text Embedding Benchmark. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025). https://proceedings.iclr.cc/paper_files/paper/2025/hash/fc0e3f908a2116ba529ad0a1530a3675-Abstract-Conference.html

Marek Suppa, Andrej Ridzik, Daniel Hládek, Natália Kňažeková, Viktória Ondrejová (2026). SkMTEB: Slovak Massive Text Embedding Benchmark and Model Adaptation. Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Volume 1: Long Papers, 45597–45628. https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.2114/

Marek Šuppa, Ivan Vykopal, Andrej Ridzik, Kristián Sopkovič, Natália Kňažeková, Jaroslav Kopcan, Miroslav Blstak, Viktória Ondrejová, Daniel Hládek, Michal Gregor, Martin Tamajka, Marian Simko (2026). sk-bench: A Native-First Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models in Slovak. Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 60008–60055. https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.2639/

Marek Šuppa, Jaroslav Kopcan (2026). Tool-Creating LLM Agents Gain Little from Keeping Their Tools. Conference on Language Modeling (COLM 2026). https://proceedings.colm.cc/paper_files/paper/2026/hash/871ac99fdc5282d0301934d23945ebaa-Abstract-Conference.html

VI.3 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs over the last six years

VI.4 - The most significant citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.5 - Participation in conducting (leading) the most important research projects or art projects over the last six years

MIMEDIS: The impact of media discourse on attitudes towards migration, migrants and migration policy in Slovakia. APVV-21-0114, project period 1 July 2022 – 30 June 2026. Joint project of FSEV UK, the Department of Applied Informatics at FMFI UK, and the Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies. Member of the FMFI UK research team. https://cogsci.fmph.uniba.sk/MIMEDIS/

VII. - Overview of organizational experience related to higher education and research/artistic/other activities

VIII. - Overview of international mobilities and visits oriented on education and research/artistic/other activities in the given field of study

IX. - Other relevant facts

IX.a - If relevant, other activities related to higher education or research/artistic/other activities are mentioned

Patents and patent application

Co-inventor on three granted US patents and one published US patent application for Cisco Technology, Inc.

Granted patents

US12547835B2. Automatic extraction of semantically similar question topics. Marek Šuppa, Daniela Jašš, Katarína Kozáková, Daniel Skala. Granted 2026-02-10. https://patents.google.com/patent/US12547835B2/en

US12430912B2. Audience re-engagement during large online meetings. Marek Šuppa, Andrej Švec, Andrej Baran, Tomas Sirny. Granted 2025-09-30. https://patents.google.com/patent/US12430912B2/en

US12149493B1. Automatic poll generation based on user communications. Peter Hraška, Marek Šuppa, Andrej Švec, Samuel Sučík, Daniel Skala, Jakub Tomiš, Ján Podmajerský. Granted 2024-11-19. https://patents.google.com/patent/US12149493B1/en

Published patent application

US20260044552A1. Knowledge retrieval during online communication sessions. Peter Hraška, Andrej Švec, Miriama Krížková, Marek Šuppa. Patent application published 2026-02-12. Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc. https://patents.google.com/patent/US20260044552A1/en

Technical disclosures

Co-author of four technical disclosures in Technical Disclosure Commons (Defensive Publications Series).

Real-time audience analytics system for measuring engagement and sentiment during live presentations. 2023-06-27. https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/6007/

MultimodeVote: Multimodal poll participation system. 2024-06-26. https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/7139/

A multimodal system and method for dynamic simplification of complex content. 2024-09-25. https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/7378/

Automating multi-tier user feedback collection based on device usage. 2024-10-03. https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/7401/

Award

Best Paper Award at SemEval 2026 for RAGthoven at SemEval-2026 Task 1: A Multi-Stage Pipeline Walks Into a Benchmark and Barely Clears the Bar (Marek Šuppa, Viktória Ondrejová, Lucia Ganajová, Gregor Karetka, Daniel Skala). https://aclanthology.org/2026.semeval-1.416/

Award announcement: https://zona.fmph.uniba.sk/detail-novinky/back_to_page/studium/article/slovensky-system-na-generovanie-vtipov-ziskal-cenu-za-najlepsi-clanok-na-semeval-2026/calendar_date/2026/april/

Other selected conference publications

Israfel Salazar, Manuel Fernández Burda, Shayekh Islam, Arshia Soltani Moakhar, Shivalika Singh, Fabian Farestam, Angelika Romanou, Danylo Boiko, Dipika Khullar, Mike Zhang, Dominik Krzemiński, Jekaterina Novikova, Luisa Shimabucoro, Joseph Marvin Imperial, Rishabh Maheshwary, Sharad Duwal, Alfonso Amayuelas, Swati Rajwal, Jebish Purbey, Ahmed Ruby, Nicholas Popovič, Marek Suppa, Azmine Toushik Wasi, Ram Mohan Rao Kadiyala, Olga Tsymboi, Maksim Kostritsya, Bardia moakhar, Gabriel da Costa Merlin, Otávio Coletti, Maral Jabbarishiviari, MOHAMMADAMIN FARAHANIFARD, Silvia Fernandez, María Grandury, Dmitry Abulkhanov, Drishti Sharma, Andre Guarnier De Mitri, Leticia Marchezi, Setayesh Heydari, Johan S Obando Ceron, Nazar Kohut, Beyza Ermis, Desmond Elliott, Enzo Ferrante, Sara Hooker, Marzieh Fadaee (2026). Kaleidoscope: In-language Exams for Massively Multilingual Vision Evaluation. ICLR 2026. https://iclr.cc/virtual/2026/poster/10006477

Terry Yue Zhuo, Xiaolong Jin, Hange Liu, Juyong Jiang, Tianyang Liu, Chen GONG, Bhupesh Bishnoi, Vaisakhi Mishra, Marek Šuppa, Noah Ziems, Saiteja Utpala, Ming Xu, Guangyu Song, Kaixin Li, Yuhan Cao, Bo Liu, Zheng Liu, Sabina Abdurakhmanova, Wenhao Yu, Mengzhao Jia, Jihan Yao, Kenneth Hamilton, Kumar Shridhar, Minh Chien Vu, Dingmin Wang, Jiawei Liu, Zijian Wang, Qian Liu, Binyuan Hui, Meg Risdal, Ahsen Khaliq, Atin Sood, Zhenchang Xing, Wasi Ahmad, John C Grundy, David Lo, Banghua Zhu, Xiaoning Du, Torsten Scholak, Leandro von Werra (2026). BigCodeArena: A Platform for Executable Code Generation Evaluation. COLM 2026. https://proceedings.colm.cc/paper_files/paper/2026/hash/906481828f4ca393ef5b2c4f2bf21412-Abstract-Conference.html

Date of last update

2026-11-11

Name and surname:	Mgr. Marek Šuppa
Document type:	Research/art/teacher profile of a person
The name of the university:	Comenius University Bratislava
The seat of the university:	Šafárikovo námestie 6, 818 06 Bratislava