This year's Zdena Rábová Award goes to Sára Jobranová and Ondřej Sedláček

This year, during the matriculation ceremony (September 12), the traditional Zdena Rábová Award was presented, which recognizes outstanding students from our faculty for their active involvement in science and research and for enhancing the prestige of FIT. This year's award goes to Sára Jobranová and Ondřej Sedláček.

Bc. Sára Jobranová has been involved in the simulation and analysis of quantum circuits in the VeriFIT group since her second year of bachelor's studies. She also wrote her bachelor's thesis on this topic, the results of which were published at the prestigious (CORE A) international conference ICCAD'24 in New Jersey, where she also presented them. The MEDUSA quantum circuit simulator she developed for a class of circuits using amplitude amplification significantly outperforms other existing techniques and is the fastest in the world. In 2024, she represented FIT at a summer internship at Academia Sinica in Taiwan.

Ing. Ondřej Sedláček is collaborating with the CESNET association on research and development in the field of cyber security during his studies. In this domain, he first investigated the issue of automatic device type recognition based on network communication, on which he wrote and presented an article at the Excel@FIT faculty conference (awarded by the expert committee) and, in particular, an article at the NOMS2024 international conference. In the last year, he has focused on the topic of anomaly detection in system logs. He wrote an exceptionally high-quality thesis on the topic, which evaluated existing approaches in detail using a newly created (and published) framework.

We congratulate both award winners and thank them for their excellent representation of the Faculty of Information Technology.

More information about their research and achievements, as well as a short statement from Sára and Onřej about the award, can be found here.