Homepage of Petr Novotný
I work as an associate professor at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. My chief research interests are risk-aware reinforcement learning, verification of probabilistic systems and programs, and application of formal methods in AI (particularly in decision making under uncertainty).
At our faculty, I serve as a faculty senator, an ombudsman for PhD students (together with my colleague Katarína Furmanová), and a member of the Fundamentals of Computer Science Doctoral Committee.
News
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June 2025:
Giving a talk on risk-constrained planning and learning at Singapore Management University.
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April 2025:
Our paper Taming Infinity one Chunk at a Time: Concisely Represented Strategies in One-Counter MDPs was accepted ay ICALP’25!
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February 2025:
I am attending AAAI’25 in Philadelphia. If you’d like to connect, feel free to reach out to me!
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December 2024:
Our paper Refuting Equivalence in Probabilistic Programs with Conditioning was accepted at TACAS’25!
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December 2024:
Our paper Bidding Games on Markov Decision Processes with Quantitative Reachability Objectives was accepted at AAMAS’25!
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December 2024:
Our paper Threshold UCT: Cost-Constrained Monte Carlo Tree Search with Pareto Curves was accepted for oral presentation at AAAI’25!
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November 2024:
I am honoured that with my colleagues we contributed to the Festschrift of Joost-Pieter Katoen with our paper Asymptotic Analysis of Probabilistic Programs: When Expectations Do Not Meet Our Expectations.
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June 2024:
I am attending PLDI’24 in Copenhagen. If you’d like to connect, feel free to reach out to me!