
About me
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the ELLIS Alicante Unit, working on human-centric AI research in the team of Dr. Nuria Oliver. I currently work on the PERTE project with the objective of building fair and safe language models, specifically focused on low-resource languages. Within the ELLIS Postdoc exchange program, I also collaborate with the Machine Learning team, led by Prof. Robert Babuška, at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics, and Cybernetics (CIIRC). My areas of interest comprise human-centric artificial intelligence, large language models, robotics, computer vision, reinforcement learning, and genetic algorithms. I am a member of the ELLIS network.
Education
I hold a Ph.D. degree in Robotics and Machine Learning from the Czech Technical University in Prague. My Ph.D. thesis, defended in 2022, received the Dean's Award for Prestigious Dissertation. Prior to my doctoral studies, I completed the selective B.Sc. and M.Sc. study program Open Informatics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, which gave me a solid background in machine learning and mathematics.
International experience
I find it very inspiring to work in an international environment. I have taken the opportunity to go for several study and research stays:
- ELLIS Alicante, Alicante, Spain — Institute of Human-Centered AI (2022, 2 months)
- Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M), Leganés (Madrid), Spain — Robotics Lab, Escuela Politécnica Superior (2018–2019 & 2021, 10 months in total)
- TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands — Cognitive Robotics, Faculty of 3mE (2017, 3 months)
- University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia — ViCoS Lab, Faculty of Computer and Information Science (2015, 1 semester)
- Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Lyngby (Copenhagen), Denmark (2013–2014, 1 semester)
Research
Projects
Currently, I am involved in the VIVES project, which forms a part of the PERTE of New Language Economy, and aims at building AI tools supporting the Spanish language as well as the co-official languages. I joined this project in September 2023.
Previously, I worked on the Robotics for Industry 4.0 (R4I) project, led by Prof. Robert Babuška. This project ran from June 2017 to June 2023. I contributed mostly to tasks from WP1 focused on data-efficient model learning methods and long-term autonomy of mobile robots.
I have also contributed to the project Symbolic Regression for Reinforcement Learning (SR4RL).
Publications
Teaching
Courses
2017, 2021–2022 — lab sessions of the course Dynamics and Control of Networks at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague.
Student works
Feel most welcome to contact me if you are interested in working on topics that fall within the scope of my research. We can identify together a suitable student project, thesis, internship, etc.
Finished works:
- Co-Evolutionary Approach to Symbolic Regression — Přemysl Pilař, B.Sc. thesis (2023)
- Real-Time Assistance for Visually Impaired Individuals — Ernesto Iván Ochoa Hidalgo, M.Sc. thesis (2023)
- Visual Navigation Using Deep Reinforcement Learning — Jonáš Kulhánek, B.Sc. thesis (2019)
- Life-long Visual Localization of a Mobile Robot in Changing Environments — Kristýna Kumpánová, M.Sc. thesis (2018)
- Using Model Learning Actor-Critic (MLAC) for Reinforcement Learning with Symbolic Regression — Loi Do, summer internship (2017)