Michal Pěchouček
Dr. Michal Pechoucek works as a reader in Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Cybernetics, CTU. He graduated in Technical Cybernetics from FEE-CTU, got his M.Sc. degree in IT: Knowledge Based Systems from University of Edinburgh and completed his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence and Biocybernetics at CTU in Prague. He is the Head of the Agent Technology Group at the Gerstner Laboratory.
His research focuses on problems related to multi-agent systems, especially topics related to social knowledge, meta-reasoning, acting in communication inaccessibility, coalition formation, agent reflection and multi-agent planning. Michal Pechoucek participated in and coordinated several EC FP5/6 projects (e.g. ExPlanTech, ExtraPlanT), is a member of AgentLink III management committee. Michal Pechoucek acts as a principal investigator on several research projects funded by Air Force Research Laboratory,Office for Naval Research and Army Research Laboratory. Besides, Michal Pechoucek collaborates with European and international industries such as Rockewell Automation, CERTICON, Cadence GmbH, gedas s.r.o., Denzo and others. Michal Pechoucek also acts as a reviewer of the EC FP6 projects.
Michal Pechoucek is an author or co-author of cited publications in proceedings of international conferences and journal papers. In addition, he has been a co-chair of the AAMAS Industry Track 2005, HOLOMAS 2000-2002, 2005, KSCO 2002,2004 CEEMAS 2003, 2005 and as member of the programme committee of other relevant conferences and workshop. Michal Pechoucek is chair of EUMAS advisory board and member of CEEMAS steering committee.
TopZdeněk Bárnet
Zdeněk Bárnet holds bachelors degree in Cybernetics and Measurement from Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague. Currently he is pursuing master degree in Biomedical Engineering at FEE CTU and he is a member of the Agent Technology Group of the Gerstner laboratory. His work is focused on the visualization of multi-agents systems.
TopKarel Bartoš
Karel Bartoš holds engineering degree in Engineering Informatics from the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague. He is currently researcher at Agent Technology Center and in the same time pursues his PhD studies at the Department of Cybernetics of the Czech Technical University.
His current research interests include network security, distributed data fusion, trust and multi-agent systems focusing on intrusion detection.
TopPetr Benda
Petr Benda is a PhD candidate of Artificial intelligence and biocybernetics at Faculty of Electrical Engineering Czech Technical University. He graduated in Biomedical engineering in 2004. He has been a member of Agent technology group since 2002, where he started the RoboCup Rescue project.
His research interests are biological systems, synergic effects in multi-agent systems and general artificial intelligence.
TopBranislav Bošanský
Branislav Bošanský is a research fellow in the Agent Technology Group of the Gerstner Laboratory at the Department of Cybernetics of Czech Technical University. He holds master degree in theoretic informatics (artificial intelligence and logic programming) from Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University in Prague. Besides the participation in the ATG, he is a PhD student at 1st Faculty of Medicine at biomedical informatics, where he focuses on medical guidelines critiquing by means of agents and process specification of multi-agent systems.
His research in ATG is focused on game theory, game-playing and planning in complex adversarial domains.
TopLukáš Chrpa
Lukáš Chrpa is a post-doctoral researcher in the Agent Technology Center (ATG) at Czech Technical University in Prague. He finished his Ph.D. at Charles University in Prague at September 2009 by defending his thesis entitled “Learning for Classical Planning”. His research mainly consists of Artificial Intelligence Planning. Now, he participates on Tactical AgentFly 2 project, where he is developing spatial-temporal planner for VTOLs (helicopter-like UAVs).
TopJan Doubek
Jan Doubek is pursuing bachelor degree in Software development at the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague. At the same time he is a member of the Agent Technology Group of the Gerstner laboratory.
His research is focused on negotiation and coalition forming in multi-agent systems.
TopMartin Grill
Martin Grill holds master degree in Software development at the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague. At the present time he is a member of the Agent Technology Center, a researcher at CESNet, and a PhD student at the Department of Cybernetics of Czech Technical University in Prague.
His research is focused on network security and collective adaptation in multi-agent systems.
TopOndřej Hrstka
Ondřej Hrstka holds bachelor degree in Cybernetics and Measurements at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering on the Czech Technical University in Prague. Since July he is member of the Agent Technology Group of the Gerstner laboratory.
Ondřej currently works on AgentC.
TopMichal Jakob
Dr. Michal Jakob is a senior researcher in the Agent Technology Center at the Department of Cybernetics, FEE CTU. He currently leads the center’s participation in the European research project CONTRACT, developing technologies for management, monitoring and verification of electronic contracts. In addition, he leads several research projects funded by US defense agencies in the area of adversarial behavior modeling a detection and multi-UAV surveillance and tracking. His research interests include distributed coordination and planning, decision-making and learning in multi-agent environments, agent-based simulations, and privacy-aware computing.
Michal Jakob received a PhD degree in Artificial intelligence and biocybernetics from Czech Technical University in Prague in 2008. Before joining the Agent Technology Center, he was a research scientist with British Telecommunications (BT), developing resilient decentralized architectures for service-oriented computing and network-centric information fusion. Earlier in his career, he worked as a game AI programmer for Illusion Softworks (now 2K Czech), a leading European game studio.
TopAntonín Komenda
Antonin Komenda graduated in Technical Cybernetics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague in 2007. His studies was focused on Multi-Agent Systems. Now he is a researcher and a PhD student at Agent Technology Center of the Gerstner Laboratory. His research is focused on Distributed Planning in Multi-Agent Systems.
His key skills are computer programming (Java, PHP, C++, C) and object oriented analysis. His prior employment was developer/programmer/analyst in private companies since 1998. His work was focused on content managment systems and programming frameworks.
TopŠtěpán Kopřiva
Štěpán Kopřiva is researcher and PhD student at the Agent Technology Center of the Gerstner Laboratory at the Department of Cybernetics of Czech Technical University. Štěpán graduated in 2009 from Imperial College London with M.Sc. degree in Advanced Computing. Prior to his current position, he worked as programmer for the major POS systems manufacturer and researcher in ATG.
Štěpán currently works on AgentFly project - large scale simulation and control in the air-traffic domain. His main research interests are logics and formal methods for multi-agent systems, classical planning and large scale simulations.
TopVojtěch Křížek
Vojtěch Křížek holds bachelor degree in Cybernetics and Measurements at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering on the Czech Technical University in Prague. At the same time he is a member of the Agent Technology Group of the Gerstner laboratory.
Vojtěch currently works on AgentC project.
TopViliam Lisý
Viliam Lisý is a researcher and a PhD student at Agent Technology Center of the Gerstner Laboratory at the Department of Cybernetics of Czech Technical University. He holds master degree in Technical Artificial Intelingence from VU University Amsterdam and master degree in Theoretical Computer Science at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University in Prague. Prior to his current position, he worked on automatic emotion recognition at Philips CE Innovation Lab and he also worked as programmer for a subcontractor of all Czech mobile telecommunications companies.
He works on defense research projects on adversary behavior modeling, simulation and prediction, funded by the U.S. Air Force Research Lab. His main research interests are logics, formal methods in multi-agent systems, bayesian decision-making and game theory.
TopVladimír Mařík
Prof. Marik is a member of ATG, the founding chairman of the Department of Cybernetics at the Czech Technical University since 1999 and the founder and managing director of the Rockwell Automation Research Center Prague as a part of the Advanced Technology organization of the Rockwell Automation Inc., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The main professional interests of Prof. Marik include artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems and knowledge-based systems, soft-computing, production planning and CIM applications. He is author or co-author of more than 130 journal and conference papers, co-author or editor of 13 books (Springer Verlag, Kluwer Academic). He acted as a visiting professor at many universities, e.g. University of Vienna, Vienna Univ. of Technology, J. Kepler University, Linz, Technical University of Berlin, Gremany, IPN Mexico City, Mexico, St. Petersburgh Technical University etc.
He is a PI or CO-PI numerous research contracts with e.g. Rockwell Automation (USA), Vitatron Medical (NL), Grundfos (DK), Cadence (USA), Robert Bosch GmbH (D), Denso (JP), EOARD, AFRL and ONR (USA). Prof. Marik acted the organizer of many scientific events, ECCAI/EASSS 2001, CEEMAS 2003, IEEE DIS 2006, the whole series of HoloMAS or IEEE ETFA’06. He acts as an Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Trans. SMC, part C since 2005 and Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Systems Studies since 2001. He is an elected member of the Czech Engineering Academy as well as the member of the Executive Council of this Academy. He is a member of IEEE and an honorary member of the Austrian AI Society. Prof. Marik was awarded by the Czechoslovak State Prize in 1989, by the Rockwell’s Chairman Team Award in 1997 and by the Austrian “Honorary Cross for Science and Art” awarded by the President of the Austrian Republic in 2003.
TopTomáš Meiser
Tomas Meiser is pursuing bachelor degree in Intelligent Systems at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering on the Czech Technical University in Prague. At the same time he is a member of the Agent Technology Group of the Gerstner laboratory.
His research is focused on MANETs and topology control.
Peter Novák
Peter Novák is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Agent Technology Center since October 2009. His research interests lie in the field of artificial intelligence. In particular, his research work revolves around cognitive robotics, issues in (multi-)agent systems, such as e.g., agent-oriented programming, coordination, cooperation as well as applications of non-monotonic reasoning in these.
Peter Novák received his master’s degree in artificial intelligence and distributed systems (Mgr.) from the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia and the doctoral degree in informatics (Dr. rer. nat.) from the Clausthal University of Technology, Germany, where he conducted research in the Computational Intelligence Group of the Department of Informatics. Prior to embarking on the academic career, he worked in IT industry as a freelance software engineer, analyst and a team leader in various companies, among other also Whitestein Technologies and MicroStep.
TopDušan Pavlíček
Dusan Pavlicek works as a research fellow in the Agent Technology Group at the Gerstner Laboratory, CTU. In 2004 he graduated in Computer Science at the Czech Technical University in Prague.
His professional interests include software engineering, applied computer graphics and scientific visualization.
He has participated in numerous projects, including ACROSS, Collective Robotics, DENSO, DeepA, I-Globe, Tactical AGENTFLY, and most recently FAA.
TopTomáš Pevný
Tomáš Pevný holds the position of researcher at Czech Technical University of Prague. He received his PhD in Computer Sciences from State University of New York in Binghamton in Computer Science at 2008 and MS in Computer Sciences from School of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering at Czech Technical University in Prague in 2003. In 2008--2009, he did his post-doc at Gipsa-lab in Grenoble, France. His research interests are applications of non-parametric statistics (machine learning, data modeling) with focuses on steganography, steganalysis, and intrusion detection.
TopMartin Rehák
Martin Rehak holds engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Paris. He is currently researcher at Agent Technology Group of the Gerstner laboratory and in the same time pursues his PhD studies at the Department of Cybernetics of the Czech Technical University. His current research interests are security, network intrusion detection, trust modeling and task allocation in adversarial environments.
Prior to his current position, Martin was member of the Mobile Communication Operations team of Schlumberger Smartcards (now Axalto), where he was working on definition, design and integration of novel location-based and other value added services for major European and African operators. Before obtaining his degree, he was a freelance contractor to diverse Czech and French companies, including General Electric Medical Systems. Martin is a 2005 McKinsey Scholar, and a member of AAMAS’06-08 program committee. In 2006, he was a visiting researcher with National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo.
TopMilan Rollo
Milan Rollo works as a senior researcher at the Center of Applied Cybernetics, Czech Technical University in Prague. He has a MSc in technical cybernetics (2002) and doctoral in artificial intelligence (2009) from CTU. He is a member of the Agent Technology Group at the Gerstner Laboratory. His main research interests are in multi-agent systems focusing on distributed team action planning, communication management and resource allocation in mobile ad-hoc networks and distributed knowledge acquisition and maintenance. At present he is active in a field of collective robotics, with focus on deployment of Agentfly project technologies on autonomous UAVs.
He was a visiting researcher with Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC), Pensacola, USA in 2008. In the past he participated on several research projects funded by EU, ONR, ARL and AFRL.
TopMartin Selecký
Martin Selecky holds bachelors degree with honors in Cybernetics and Measurement from Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague. Currently he is pursuing master degree in Artificial Intelligence at FEE CTU and works as a researcher at Agent Technology Center of Gerstner Laboratory.
TopDavid Šišlák
David Šišlák is a research scientist and Ph.D. candidate at the Agent Technology Center, Department of Cybernetics at Czech Technical University in Prague. He received his master degree in Technical Cybernetics, Czech Technical Univeristy. His research interests are in technical cybernetics and multi-agent systems focusing on decentralized collision avoidance algorithms in air-traffic domain, efficient communication, knowledge maintenance in inaccessible multi-agent environment, large-scal multi-agent simulations and agent frameworks.
David Šišlák is an author or co-author of cited publications in proceedings of international conferences and journal papers. He obtained the 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT Joint Conference The Best Demo Award and the international Cooperative Information Agents workshop (CIA) system innovation award in the year 2004 for A-Globe multi-agent platform and related simulations.
TopJan Stiborek
Jan Stiborek is pursuing bachelor degree in Software development at Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague. He is also a member of the Agent Technology Group of the Gerstner laboratory, where he works as a researcher.
His current profesional interests focused on network security and information sharing in multi-agents systems.
TopMichal Svoboda
Michal Svoboda works as a researcher at the Agents Technology Center. He holds a master degree from the Computer Graphics Group at FEE CTU. Prior to his current occupation, he worked as a freelance IT contractor for the pharmaceutical industry and others.
His current interests include network security and intrusion detection. He’s participating in CAMNEP and BITSI projects.
TopŠtěpán Urban
Štěpán Urban is a researcher and a PhD student at Agent Technology Center of the Gerstner Laboratory at the Department of Cybernetics of Czech Technical University. He holds master degree in Artificial Intelingence from CTU. His research is focused on distributed data mining and machine learning in multi-agent systems.
TopOndřej Vaněk
Ondřej Vaněk graduated from Faculty of Electrical Engineering Czech Technical University in Prague in Technical Cybernetics (2008). He is currently a researcher and a PhD student at the Agent Technology Center of the Gerstner laboratory at the Department of Cybernetics, CTU. Prior to his current position, he worked as a Java programmer and IT analyst for various companies.
His current research is focused on machine learning in multi-agent systems, cooperative and non-cooperative game theory and coordination and cooperation in MAS.
Jiří Vokřínek
Jiri Vokrinek is a senior researcher in the Agent Technology Center at Gerstner Laboratory, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic. He has a university degree on Replanning in Multi-agent Systems. His research interests are artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, planning and replanning in multi-agent systems with focus to two fields: (i) manufacturing, virtual organizations, supply-chain management and logistics and (ii) autonomous vehicles coordination and cooperation, mission planning, and team coordination.
He was participating in the fields of agent-based planning in manufacturing (IST Trial Project ExPlanTech, 2000-2002) and extra-enterprise production planning and virtual enterprises (IST Project ExtraPlanT, 2002-2004), advanced agent-based technologies for supporting virtual organizations (IST Integrated Projects ECOLEAD, 2004-2008, PANDA, 2005-2008, and CONTRACT, 2006-2009), and agent-based production processes simulations (Austrian government funded project CONCEERN, 2003-2005). He is also participating on U.S. Army sponsored research in the field of distributed planning and coordination (I-Globe, 2008) and agent-based coordination and planning for heterogeneous teams (AgentScout, 2009-2010 and Tactical AgentFly, 2009-2010).
Now, he is involved in research of agent-based technologies for supporting virtual organizations, negotiation protocols, distributed planning and coordination, and unmanned vehicles cooperation.
He was also in charge of co-organizing Agent Development Tutorials (held on EASSS 2004, BASYS 2004, CEEMAS 2005 and EASSS 2005).
TopPřemysl Volf
Premysl Volf holds master degree in Software Systems from Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University in Prague. He is currently researcher and PhD student at Agent Technology Center of the Gerstner laboratory at the Department of Cybernetics of the Czech Technical University.
His research is focused on distributed cooperative algorithms used for collision avoidance in the air traffic control and verification of these algorithms using theory and prototypes.
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