Team leader
prof. Lukas Sekanina
team leader
received the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic, in 1999 and 2002, respectively. He is a Full Professor with the Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology. His research interests include evolutionary design and evolvable hardware. He was a Visiting Lecturer with Pennsylvania State University, The Behrend College, PA, USA, and a Visiting Researcher with the University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, in 2001. He has co-authored over 150 papers, mainly on evolvable hardware. He received a Fulbright Scholarship to work with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA, in 2004. He was an Associate Editor of IEEE TRANSACTIONS OF EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION and an Editorial Board Member of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines and International Journal of Innovative Computing and Applications.
Researchers
doc. Zdenek Vasicek
researcher
received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic, in 2006 and 2012. He is an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology. His research interests include evolutionary design and optimization of complex digital circuits and systems. He has authored or co-authored over 40 conference/journal papers focused on evolvable hardware and hardware design. Mr. Vasicek received numerous awards for his research in evolvable hardware, including the Joseph Fourier Award in 2011 for research in computer science and engineering.
dr. Michal Bidlo
researcher
received the Ph.D. degree in information technology from the Faculty of Information Technology (FIT), Brno University of Technology (BUT), Czech Republic, in 2009. He is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Systems FIT BUT. His research interests include cellular automata, evolutionary computation, evolvable hardware and bio-inspired systems. Author or co-author of over 20 conference/journal papers focused on evolutionary design and evolvable hardware.
dr. Vojtech Mrazek
researcher
received a M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in information technology from the Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic, in 2014 and 2018. He is a researcher at the Faculty of Information Technology with Evolvable Hardware Group and he was also a visiting post-doc researcher at Institute of Computer Engineering, Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien), Vienna, Austria (2018-2019). His research interests are approximate computing, genetic programming and machine learning. He has authored or co-authored over 40 conference/journal papers focused on approximate computing and evolvable hardware. He received several awards for his research in approximate computing, including the Joseph Fourier Award in 2018 for research in computer science and engineering.