Education
| 2007 | Ph.D. under joint supervision in computer science at Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France and at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (UWB), Czech Republic |
| 2003 | MSc. (Ing.) in computer science at UWB |
Professional Experience
| 2024 - present | IT Consultant |
| 2014 - present | Associate Professor at the University of West Bohemia |
| 2009 - 2014 | assistant professor, project manager, and researcher at UWB |
| 2007 - 2009 | software engineer at Gefasoft AG in Munich, Germany |
| 2006 - 2007 | assistant professor at Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg, France |
Research Grants
| 2018 - 2021 | "KnowING IPR - Fostering Innovation in the Danube Region through Knowledge Engineering and IPR Management", Interreg Danube DTP2‑076-1.1 (co-investigator), funded by the European Union |
| 2014 - 2015 | "MODINFORM - Modern Informetric Methods for the Evaluation of Scientific Research", MŠMT MOBILITY 7AMB14SK090 (principal investigator), funded by the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic |
| 2011 - 2014 | "NTIS - New Technologies for Information Society", European Centre of Excellence, CZ.1.05/1.1.00/02.0090 (junior researcher), funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) |
| 2006, 2009 - 2010 | 2C06009 COT-SEWing (project participant), on the semantic Web and natural language processing methods, funded by the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic |
| 2005 | FRVŠ 1347/2005/G1 (principal investigator), on knowledge extraction from the Web content and topology, funded by the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic |
| 2004 - 2005 | RNTL Paploo (project participant), on electronic re-edition, funded by the French Ministry of Education |
Research and Teaching Experience
| Publications | 57 publications in total on data mining, Web mining, information retrieval, information science, and informetrics from which there are 33 journal articles, 19 conference proceedings papers, 3 theses, 1 monograph, and 1 technical report; 35 of the publications are in the Web of Science database |
| Research interests | data mining, information retrieval, information science, informetrics, scientometrics, research evaluation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital libraries, cybersecurity |
| Courses taught | information retrieval, Web applications, database models and methods, programming structures, user interfaces, data processing programming techniques, foundations of information technologies + supervising bachelor's and master's theses and doctoral dissertations |
Invited Talks
| 2020 | State Agency on Intellectual Property, Chisinau, Moldova (online). KnowING IPR: Which Data Are Retrieved within the Web Application?. June 30, 2020. |
| 2019 | Patent- und Markenzentrum Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany. The KnowING IPR Platform: an Open Access Tool for Advanced IPR Analysis. July 10, 2019. |
| Budapest Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Budapest, Hungary. Real-Life IPR Data. April 9, 2019. | |
| 2018 | 10th International Conference on Information Technologies and Information Society (ITIS 2018), Novo mesto, Slovenia. Online Sources of Patent and Bibliographic Data: Accessing and Processing Them. October 25, 2018. |
| Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Munich, Germany. Moderne informetrische Methoden zur Bewertung der Wissenschaftler. July 24, 2018. | |
| 2017 | Technische Hochschule Deggendorf, Deggendorf, Germany. Moderne informetrische Methoden zur Analyse und Bewertung von Publikationen. November 23, 2017. |
| Faculty of Information Studies in Novo mesto, Novo mesto, Slovenia. Modern Informetric Methods for the Evaluation of Scientific Research. July 7, 2017. | |
| 2016 | Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland. Moderne informetrische Methoden zur Bewertung der Wissenschaftler. August 3, 2016. |
| University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. New Informetric Methods for the Evaluation of Scientific Research. July 26, 2016. | |
| 2015 | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nűrnberg, Erlangen, Germany. Neue informetrische Methoden zur Bewertung der Wissenschaftler. December 21, 2015. |
| Technická univerzita v Košiciach, Košice, Slovakia. Bibliografické databáze a jejich praktické použití. July 7, 2015. | |
| 2014 | University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom. Google's PageRank as a Tool for Bibliometric Measurements. August 1, 2014. |
| Technická univerzita v Košiciach, Košice, Slovakia. Moderní informetrické metody hodnocení vědeckého výzkumu. July 2, 2014. | |
| 2013 | Technische Universität Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany. Neue informetrische Methoden zur Bewertung der Wissenschaftler. December 16, 2013. |
| Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany. Webtechnologien und Webdienste. December 5, 2013. | |
| Univerza v Ljubljani, Ljubljana, Slovenia. PageRank: from Google to citation analysis. July 10, 2013. | |
| Technická univerzita v Košiciach, Košice, Slovakia. PageRank: od Googlu k citační analýze. April 9, 2013. | |
| 2012 | Royal Holloway, University of London, London, United Kingdom. Web technologies and services. November 22, 2012. |
| Hochschule Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany. PageRank: von Google zur Zitationsanalyse. July 4, 2012. |
Reviewing Activities
| Article reviews | Applied Sciences (ISSN: 2076-3417) |
| Article reviews | Artificial Intelligence Review (ISSN: 0269-2821) |
| Austrian Journal of Statistics (ISSN: 1026-597X) | |
| Computers and Electrical Engineering (ISSN: 0045-7906) | |
| Expert Systems with Applications (ISSN: 0957-4174) | |
| Information Development (ISSN: 1741-6469) | |
| Information Processing and Management (ISSN: 0306-4573) | |
| International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design (ISSN: 1947-8186) | |
| IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (ISSN: 1556-603X) | |
| IETE Technical Review (ISSN: 0256-4602) | |
| Journal of Basic and Applied Research International (ISSN: 2395-3438) | |
| Journal of Information Science (ISSN: 0165-5515) | |
| Journal of Informetrics (ISSN: 1751-1577) | |
| Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ISSN: 2330-1635) | |
| Journal of Scientific Research and Reports (ISSN: 2320-0227) | |
| Kuwait Journal of Science (ISSN: 2307-4108) | |
| Physica A (ISSN: 0378-4371) | |
| Publications (ISSN: 2304-6775) | |
| Science Innovation (ISSN: 2328-7861) | |
| Scientometrics (ISSN: 0138-9130) | |
| Social Network Analysis and Mining (ISSN: 1869-5450) | |
| Webology (ISSN: 1735-188X) | |
| Editorial boards | Acta Electrotechnica et Informatica (ISSN: 1335-8243) |
| Journal of Informetrics (ISSN: 1751-1577) | |
| SAIEE Africa Research Journal (ISSN: 0038-2221) | |
| Conference programme committees | IEEE Eighth International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, May 28 - 30, 2014, Marrakesh, Morocco. |
| Znalosti 2014, September 26 - 28, 2014, Jasná pod Chopkom, Slovakia. | |
| Data a znalosti 2015, October 1 - 2, 2015, Prague, Czech Republic. | |
| Data a znalosti 2016, November 3 - 4, 2016, Smolenice, Slovakia. | |
| Data a znalosti 2017, October 5 - 6, 2017, Pilsen, Czech Republic. | |
| Data a znalosti 2018, October 11 - 12, 2018, Brno, Czech Republic. | |
| Data a znalosti 2019, October 10 - 11, 2019, Košice, Slovakia. | |
| Research grant evaluation | Evaluator of the Innovation Fund Denmark in the Grand Solutions 2024 (Digitalization, technology and innovation) call |
| Reviewer of the Qatar Research, Development, and Innovation Council in the Academic Research Grant (ARG-02) programme call (2024) | |
| Reviewer of the Eureka Association in the Eurostars 3 - Call 6 (2024) programme call | |
| Reviewer of the Slovak Research and Development Agency in the Grant APVV 2023 call | |
| Expert evaluator of the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation in the RESTART 2016-2020 Programmes for Research, Technological Development and Innovation (2023) | |
| Reviewer and rapporteur of the Slovenian Research Agency within the Public call for the (co-)financing of research projects in 2023 and Public call for the (co-)financing of research projects in 2024 | |
| External reviewer of The Research Council (Oman) in the Block Funding Program 2022 | |
| Reviewer of the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia in the IDEAS (2020) and PROMIS 2023 programme calls | |
| Reviewer of the Italian Ministry for University and Research (MUR) in the 2020 PRIN call | |
| Reviewer of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (United Kingdom) in the call EPSRC Fellowship - Early Career (2020) | |
| Reviewer and rapporteur of The National Centre for Research and Development (Poland) in the Small Grant Scheme 2020 Call of the Applied Research Programme and SPPW Call 2024 of the Programme Research and Innovation - Applied Research (Swiss-Polish Cooperation Programme) | |
| Reviewer and panel member (Physical Sciences and Engineering, and Natural and Technical Sciences, respectively) of the Research Council of Lithuania in the Polish-Lithuanian Funding Initiative (DAINA 2) Call for Proposals 2020, Postdoctoral Fellowships Programme Call 2023, Impact-Driven Programme "Information Technologies for the Development of Science and Knowledge Society" Call 2024, and Postdoctoral Fellowships Programme Call 2024 | |
| Independent expert of the Bulgarian National Science Fund in the Competition for Financial Support for Basic Research Projects - 2020 | |
| Reviewer of the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports of the Czech Republic in the programme VES15 COST CZ (The European Cooperation in Science and Technology) | |
| External referee of the Romanian National Research Council in the programmes Exploratory Research Projects (PCE2012), Postdoctoral Research Projects (PD2012), and Young Research Teams (RUTE2014) | |
| Institutional evaluation | Expert and panel member (Committee of Natural and Technical Sciences) of the Research Council of Lithuania in the Comparative Expert Assessment 2023 |