prof. RNDr. Tomáš Skopal, Ph.D. ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** *========================================================================================= * Vice-Rector for Information Technologies *========================================================================================= IT(zavinac)vicerector.cuni.cz [ MAIL "IT(zavinac)vicerector.cuni.cz"] +420 224 491 277 Rector's Office of Charles University Ovocný trh 560/5 116 36 Prague 1 Agenda: • IT/IS coordination, including preparation of medium-term strategy • New SIS • Data-driven university • Cloud services • Liaison with the Cybersecurity Manager and KR member for eGovernment and Security • Collaboration with the AS CU IT Committee Professional profile: Started his academic journey at the Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc (MSc in at the Technical University of Ostrava (PhD in 2004) until he landed at the Faculty of Mat Physics at Charles University (Associate Professor, Professor). He has further long-term e universities in Germany (Konstanz, Passau) and Chile. In 2006, he founded the SIRET resear Department of Software Engineering of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, which resear of similarity search in databases of unstructured data (e.g. multimedia). He headed the de 2013 to 2021. He has served on scientific boards or panels of the Czech Grant Agency. He h of basic, applied and contracted research grants. Work experience: • since 2022 - Vice-Rector of Charles University for Information Technology • 2012 to 2021 - Head of the Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Mathematics an • since 2010 - teaching at FIT CTU (associate professor, professor) • since 2006 - Head of the SIRET@KSI research group at the Faculty of Mathematics and Phys • since 2005 - successively assistant professor, associate professor and professor at the Software Engineering at the , Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at CU Education: • 2019 - Professor (Computer Science - Software Systems, CU) • 2007 - Associate Professor (Computer Science - Software Engineering, CU) • 2004 - RNDr. (computer science, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at CU) • 2004 - Ph.D. (computer science - applied mathematics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Science at the Technical University of Ostrava) • 2001 - Mgr. (computer science, Faculty of Science at Palacký University Olomouc) Teaching activity: Long-time lecturer at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at CU and the Faculty of Info technology at CTU (database systems, multimedia retrieval, web search engines). Foreign internships: 2020 to 2022 - visiting professor at Universität Passau (Germany) 2016 to 2017 - visiting professor at Universität Konstanz (Germany) 2011 - research fellowship at Universidad de Chile (Chile) Publication and creative activities: Over 100 publications in the Scopus database, articles in international impacted journals proceedings. Google Scholar h-index 25, over 1900 citations. Popularization activities: ? VideoHunter@MFF summer workshops combining scientific and popularization lectures in the intelligent search in audio-visual data and a team competition in video search using state developed at MFF UK. Selected grants: • 2022 to 2024 - Investigator GA Czech Republic, No. 22-21696S "Deep representations of un • 2021 - co-investigator, EyeMeter, contract research between Median and Faculty of Mathem Physics, CU • 2019 to 2021 - investigator of GA ČR, No. 19-01641S "Contextual similarity search in ope • 2017 to 2019 - investigator of GA ČR, No. 17-22224S "User preference analytics in multim models" • 2013 to 2014 - investigator, contract research Cisco and MFF UK "Finding similar events detection systems" • 2011 to 2014 - investigator of GA ČR, No. P202/11/0968 "Large-scale nonmetric similarity complex domains" • 2009 to 2011 - co-investigator of GA ČR, No. 201/09/0683 "Similarity searching in very l databases" • 2005 to 2007 - investigator of GA ČR, No. 201/05/P036 "Efficient metric search in large databases" Scientific profile (ORCID): https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6591-0879 [ URL "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6591-0879"] Personal website: http://siret.ms.mff.cuni.cz/members/skopal/home [ URL "http://siret.ms.mff.cuni.cz/members Motto: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Information technology must be a good servant, not an evil master." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Interests, hobbies: Photography, cycling, boating, travel prof. RNDr. Tomáš Skopal, Ph.D. – photo for download (.jpg; 2.87 MB) [ URL "UKEN-1669-vers skopal_vs1_0611.jpg"]