Doctoral graduates from the Faculty of Informatics

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Scheduled dissertation defences

Miriama Jánošová – Compact and Interpretable Representations for Similarity Modeling of High-Dimensional Data
Aleksandra Melnikova – Shape-aware fusion for cell segmentation benchmarking
Viktória Spišaková – Elastic Resource Management for Heterogenous Container-Based Clouds
Vojtěch Suchánek – The Double-Edged Curve - Cryptographic Implications of Algebraic Structures in Elliptic Curves
Eva Šmijáková – Control of Partially Specified Boolean Networks
Rudolf Wittner – Partionable Non-repudiable Provenance Information for Sensitive Data

Graduation date – 2 October 2026.

Regarding the graduation ceremonies, relevant graduates will be informed by email approximately one month in advance by RMU ( Mgr. Tereza Dvořáková). You must have an active email address in IS MU. You must also give your consent in IS MU to continue using your email account after graduation, via the ‘Privacy’ settings.

Interviews with graduates

Andrij Stecko

LinkedIn
Interview

It makes sense to establish links with industry at all levels of study

Andrij Stecko joined the Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University after completing his studies in Lviv (UKR). He found his niche in security, where he went on to pursue a PhD, during which he became involved in several projects straight away.

David Novák

LinkedIn
Interview

Ximilar helps companies to automatically utilise their image data

David Novák, a PhD graduate from the Faculty of Informatics, is the co-founder and CEO of Ximilar, a company offering effective image recognition solutions and a wide range of other services.

Hàn Thế Thành

Wiki
Interview

Hàn Thế Thành, a graduate of the Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University, is the author of the famous pdfTeX, an extension of the TeX typesetting programme

Thành is the author of pdfTeX and continues to maintain it. In an interview for tug.org, Dave Walden asked Hàn about his work and studies.

Jiří Matela

LinkedIn
Interview

Brno-based firm aims to join the Hollywood giants

FI graduate Jiří Matela co-founded Comprimato, which has secured investment of more than 30 million.

Barbora Bühnová

LinkedIn
Interview

Diversity makes us better and stronger

Following her successes in computer science, Barbora Bühnová, an associate professor at the Faculty of Informatics, has decided to encourage other girls to study computer science.

Radek Pelánek

Profile
Interview

Learning systems free up teachers’ time for more interesting work

Radek Pelánek specialises in the development of AI-based learning systems.

Michal Balážia

LinkedIn
Interview

Award-winning computer scientist trains computers to recognise people by their gait

Michal Balážia, a graduate of the Faculty of Computer Science at Masaryk University, has been awarded the prestigious Joseph Fourier Prize for the development of a biometric system.

Robert Král

LinkedIn
Interview

Theatre is like a soft skills course for students

Originally a computer science graduate, he is the avant-garde driving force behind ProFIdivadlo and the FI MU film festival, as well as a screenwriter and director of plays for the Napříč.CZ association.

Tomáš Brázdil

LinkedIn
Interview

I come up with the most ideas when I’m having a discussion with my colleagues

For theoretical computer scientist Tomáš Brázdil, the approaches practised by the characters in the TV series The Big Bang Theory have proved their worth.

Jiří Materna

LinkedIn
Interview

You’ll discover things you didn’t know before, thanks in part to Jiří Materna’s research team

Would you have thought that the results of an internet search engine are influenced by a young graduate of the Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University, who, at the time Seznam.cz was launched, was writing short stories that never saw the light of day?

Filip Procházka

LinkedIn
Interview

Head of Mycroft Mind: We turn electricity data into insights

Filip Procházka, a graduate of the Faculty of Computer Science, specialises in analysing data on distribution networks.

Jan Pazdziora

LinkedIn
Interview

He was there at the very beginning of the MU Information System. Today, he works as a developer at Red Hat

While still a student, Jan Pazdziora was part of the team that implemented the IS at MU. He is now one of the key figures at the American company Red Hat.

Václav Matyáš

LinkedIn
Interview

Open source in cybersecurity and the new generation of researchers

FI MU graduate, Professor Václav Matyáš, spoke with Mike Bursell from Red Hat about computer security and its user-friendliness.

PhD graduates from the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University

The year 2026

C. E. Akbas, V. Brůža, M. Denisová, O. Herman, J. Peschel, H. Pokojná, T. Slanináková