Mária Bieliková is a Slovak computer scientist who specializes in human-computer interaction and trustworthy artificial intelligence.
[3] 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.
[9][10] 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 and of the board of governors of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre.
[13] In 2024, Bieliková was awarded the Order of Ľudovít Štúr, 2nd class by the president Zuzana Čaputová for her contributions to development of Slovakia in the scientific and technical fields.