Work experience

• 2006 - now, Faculty of Management, University of Economics, Jindřichův Hradec

• 1994 - 1999, 2002 - now, Department of Decision-making Theory, Institute of Information Theory and Automation of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague

• 1997 - 2000, 2002 - 2004, Laboratory for Intelligent Systems (LISp), University of Economics, Prague

• 1999 - 2002, The Research Unit of Decision Support Systems, Aalborg University, Denmark.

• 1992 - 1994, Transcom Ltd. Prague

Research interests

• Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence,

• Probabilistic Methods in Artificial Intelligence,

• Probabilistic Graphical Models,

• Bayesian Networks,

• Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT),

• Decision Theoretic Troubleshooting, 

• Marginal Problem.

Recent research projects

• Project GA20-18407S - Verb Class Analysis Accelerator for Low-Resource Languages - RoboCorp (2020 -2022)

• Project GA19-04579S - Conditional independence structures: methods of polyhedral geometry (2019 - 2021)

• Project GA14-13713S - Tensor Decomposition Methods and Their Applications (2014-2016, GA0/GA)

• Project GA13-20012S - Conditional independence structures: algebraic and geometric approaches (2013-2015, GA0/GA)

• Project GA201/09/1891 - Multidimensional Models of Uncertainty (2009-2011, GA0/GA)

• Project GA201/08/0539 - Conditional independence structures: graphical and algebraic approaches (2008-2012, GA0/GA)

• Project GEICC/08/E010 - The logic of causal and probabilistic reasoning in uncertain environments (2008-2011, GA0/GE) The homepage of the project is here.

• Project 2C06019 - (Medical) Knowledge Acquisition and Modelling (2006-2011, MSM/2C) 

• Project 1M0572 - Data, algorithms, decision making (2005-2011, MSM/1M) 

Conferences we organize/have organized 

• WUPES'22 - 12th Workshop on Uncertainty Processing, Kutná Hora, Czechia

• ECSQARU'21 - 16th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty, Prague, Czechia

• WUPES'18 - 11th Workshop on Uncertainty Processing, Třeboň, Czechia

• PGM'18 - 9th International Conference on Probabilistic Graphical Models, Prague, Czechia

• WUPES'15 - 10th Workshop on Uncertainty Processing, Monínec, Czechia

• WUPES'12 - 9th Workshop on Uncertainty Processing, Marianské Lázně, Czechia

• WUPES'09 - 8th Workshop on Uncertainty Processing, Liblice, Czechia

• PGM'06 - 3rd European Workshop on Probabilistic Graphical Models, Prague, Czechia

• WUPES'06 - 7th Workshop on Uncertainty Processing, Mikulov, Czechia

• WUPES'03 - 6th Workshop on Uncertainty Processing, Hejnice, Czechia 

Students

Current PhD students

• Martin Rod - Modely podnikové architektury v prostředí veřejné správy a jejich efektivní řízení a transformace na základě modelů neurčitosti / Models of corporate architecture in the environment of public administration and their effective management and transformation based on uncertainty models

• Issam Salman - Machine learning methods for analyzing medical data

• Iván Leonardo Pérez - Probabilistic Graphical Models for Computerized Adaptive Testing 

PhD graduates

• Martin Plajner - Adaptive Testing using Bayesian Networks

• Jan Švorc - Subjective Well-Being and Individual Material Situation in Four Countries of Central Europe

• Václav Lín - On sequencing problems in the management of troubleshooting operations

Current MSc students

• František Komanec - Webový systém pro testovaní znalostí studentů

MSc graduates

• Kristína Blašková - Metody strojového učení pro analýzu spánku / Machine learning methods for sleep analysis

• Amal Magauina - Použití bayesovských sítí v adaptivním testování znalostí studentů / Application of Bayesian Networks in Adaptive Knowledge Testing of Students

• Václav Lín - Optimal Observation Strategies for Bayesian Networks

Professional activities

•  Area Editor of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

• Program committee member of the Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) Conference since 2003

• Program committee member of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) since 2018

• Program committee member of the International Conference on Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGM) since 2010

• Program committee member of the European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU) since 2013

• Program committee member of AISTATS since 2020

• Member of the Institute Board of the Institute of Information Theory and Automation of the Czech Academy of Sciences since 2022