Information for (Prospective) PhD students

To start with: what PhD is about from our colleagues at Purdue University — bottom line is that it “requires extended study and intense intellectual effort [to] master a specific subject completely [and] extend the body of knowledge about that subject” and will be rewarded by the joy that one “does not do the same things that millions of others are doing [and can] discover things that no other human has ever discovered”.

Topics for PhD research

Broadly, I am interested in

• application consistency verification, in particular for modular systems;
• modeling and visualization for component/modular software architectures;
• software engineering methodologies, leaning more towards agile and safety-related ones.

The concrete topics for PhD research fall within these areas, and are always negotiable — if you are interested in something related, just drop me a line.

The first two above areas are also covered in the PhD-level course Component Models and Architectures which I lead.

Students

• Petr Pícha
• Sangita De

Finished

• Lukáš Holý (thesis defended 03/2016)
• Jaroslav Šnajberk (finished 2014)
• Kamil Ježek (finished 2012)

Other former students

    Jakub Daněk
    Eda Chromík
    Lukáš Valenta
    Václav Tůma
    Jarda Bauml