Name: Dr. Martynas Patašius
Affiliation: Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
Research interests: biomedical image analysis; finite element method; business games; voting theory
The following is a short interview with Dr. Martynas Patašius:
1. Could you give a brief introduction to yourself to the readers? Could you introduce your current research direction and provide an update on your progress?
I am a computer scientist working at the Kaunas University of Technology. I work in many research fields—voting theory, finite element modeling, business games, etc.
2. Can you please share with us your sentiments about winning the award?
I am honored.
3. Could you share some insights into your approach to reviewing manuscripts? How do you balance thoroughness with efficiency?
There is not much to it. I simply read the paper, more or less as if I were a reader and not a reviewer. Then, the places where the text becomes hard to understand might indicate where, for example, some notation has been left unexplained.
4. In your opinion, what are some key qualities that make a review outstanding?
A review is primarily meant to make the flaws of the paper clear so that they can be dealt with. Because of that, I would say that, first of all, a good review has to list only the true flaws that are in the paper. There could be other good qualities (for example, finding many flaws, indicating how some flaws could be corrected), but these are much less important.
5. Based on your experience, which research topics do you think are of particular interest to the research community in the coming years?
This is hard to say. Perhaps, at the moment, there will be some work finding out how to use LLMs in various fields of research.
