prof. Ing.

Lukáš Sekanina

Ph.D.

Head of Department

+420 54114 1215
sekanina@fit.vut.cz
L322 Office
2913/BUT personal ID

Curriculum

Education and academic qualification

  • 01.09.1994 - 30.06.1999

    Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, BUT
    Ing. (~MEng) in Computer science and Engineering

  • 01.09.1999 - 15.11.2002

    Faculty of Information Technology, BUT
    Ph.D. in Information technology; Ph.D. thesis "Component Approach to Evolvable Systems" awarded Siemens Award 2003 for Outstanding Ph.D. thesis and Siemens Award 2005 for Outstanding Research Publication (Evolvable Components, Springer Verlag, 2004)

  • 19.06.2006 - 16.06.2011

    Faculty of Information Technology, BUT
    Habilitation in Computer science and Engineering

  • 16.06.2011 - ...

    Faculty of Information Technology, BUT
    Professor of Computer science and Engineering

Pedagogic activities

Former Ph.D. students

  • Michal Bidlo (defended in 2009), Zbyšek Gajda (2011), Zdeněk Vašíček (2012), Martin Žádník (2013, co-supervised with Dr. Kořenek), Ruben Salvador (UPM Madrid, 2015, co-supervised with Dr. Eduardo de la Torre), Pavol Korček (2016, co-supervised with Dr. Fučík), Jiří Petrlík (2016), Radek Hrbáček (2017), Michaela Drahošová (2017), Miloš Minařík (2018), Vojtěch Mrázek (2018, co-supervised with Dr. Vašíček), David Grochol (2019), Jakub Lojda (2023, former supervisor - Doc. Kotásek), Jakub Husa (2024)

Awards to my Ph.D. students

  • Vojtěch Mrázek - Czech Head (Doctorandus prize in technical sciences, 2019)
  • Vojtěch Mrázek - Joseph Fourier Award for research in computer science and engineering - 1st place (2019)
  • Vojtěch Mrázek - Antonín Svoboda Award for the Best Ph.D. Thesis - 1st place (2018)
  • Zdeněk Vašíček - Joseph Fourier Award for research in computer science and engineering - 1st place (2011)
  • Michal Bidlo - Werner von Siemens Excellence Award for Ph.D. thesis (2009)
  • Zdeněk Vašíček - Josef Hlávka Award for MSc thesis (2006)

Scientific activities

Lukáš Sekanina is engaged in the research of bio-inspired artificial intelligence, especially genetic programming, and applications in the fields of automated design, approximation, and adaptation of hardware and software. He is among the 2% most cited scientists in the field of Information & Communication Technologies [Plos Biology 2020]. 

Books and Edited Proceedings

References and Citations

Journal Editorial Boards

  • IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (Associate Editor, 2011 - 2014)
  • Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines (Editorial Board Member 2012 - 2016, Associate Editor 2016 - )
  • International Journal of Innovative Computing and Applications (2007 - )
  • Radioengineering (2017 - 2018)
  • Springer's Natural Computing book series (Advisory Board member, 2019 - )

Conference Invited Talks, Keynotes, and Tutorials

  • Conference Invited Talks and Keynotes (since 2020)
    • Cartesian Genetic Programming in Electronic Design Automation at the Graph-Based Genetic Programming Workshop at GECCO 2023 (Lisbon, Portugal, 2023)
  • Tutorials (since 2020)
    • IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics SMC 2022 (Praha, CZ)
    • IEEE World Congres on Computational Intelligence WCCI 2022 (Padua, IT)
    • Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems DDECS 2022 (Praha, CZ)
    • Design Automation Conference DAC 2021 (San Francisco, US)
    • IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation CEC 2021 (Glasgow, UK)
    • European Test Symposium ETS 2021 (Tallinn, EE)
  • Invited talks (since 2020)
    • CSE Seminar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, US (June 5, 2024) link
    • Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno (December 5, 2023)
    • TU Dresden (January 19, 2023) link
    • Universität Leipzig, ScaDS.AI, Leipzig (January 18, 2023)
    • Prague computer science seminar, Prague (June 9, 2022) link
    • University of Lyon - Lyon Institute of Nanotechnology, FR (May 10, 2022)
    • Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava (February 11, 2020)
  • complete list

Steering Committee

  • IEEE Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (since 2013; a chair since 2020)
  • European Conference on Genetic programming (2019 -)

Conference Chairing

  • DATE 2025: Design Automation and Test in Europe - chair of track D (Design)
  • DATE 2024: Design Automation and Test in Europe - chair of track D (Design)
  • EvoStar 2023 - Local co-chair (Brno, CZ)
  • DATE 2023: Design Automation and Test in Europe - chair of track D (Design)
  • DATE 2022: Design Automation and Test in Europe - topic chair (D11 - Approximate computing)
  • DATE 2021: Design Automation and Test in Europe - topic chair (D11 - Approximate computing)
  • DDECS 2021: Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (Vienna, AT) - PC co-chair
  • DATE 2020: Design Automation and Test in Europe - topic chair (D10 - Approximate computing)
  • DDECS 2020: Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (Novi Sad) - topic chair
  • EuroGP 2019: European Conference on Genetic Programming (Leipzig, DE) - program co-chair
  • EuroGP 2018: European Conference on Genetic Programming (Parma, IT) - program co-chair
  • DATE 2017: Special Session - Biologically-inspired techniques for smart, secure and low power SoCs (Lausanne, CH) - SS co-chair
  • EuroGP 2017: 20th European Conference on Genetic Programming (Amsterdam, NL) - publication chair
  • DTIS 2016: 11th International Conference on Design & Technology of Integrated Systems in Nanoscale Era (Istanbul, TR) - program chair
  • IEEE DDECS 2014: Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (Warsaw, PL) - general vice-chair
  • IEEE DDECS 2013: Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (Karlovy Vary, CZ) - general chair
  • MEMICS 2011: Annual Doctoral Workshop on Mathematical and Engineering Methods in Computer Science (Lednice, CZ) - program co-chair
  • ICES 2008: International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware (Praha, CZ) - program co-chair

Program Committee Membership

  • 2024: CEC, DATE, DDECS, EuroGP, GECCO, IEEE CAI
  • 2023: CEC, DATE, DDECS, EuroGP, GECCO
  • 2022: CEC, DATE, DDECS, EuroGP, GECCO
  • 2021: AICAS, CEC, DATE, DDECS, EuroGP, GECCO, ICES-SSCI, IGSC
  • 2020: AICAS, CEC, DATE, DDECS, EuroGP, GECCO, ICES-SSCI, SMC
  • 2019: AICAS, AxC, AHS, CEC, DATE, DDECS, EuroGP, GECCO, SMC
  • 2018: AxC, AHS, CEC, DATE, DDECS, EuroGP, GECCO, ICES-SSCI
  • a další

Academic internships abroad

  • 05.01.2001 - 15.05.2001

    Pennsylvania State University, The Behrend College, Erie, USA
    Teaching of courses "Programming for Engineers" and "Embedded System Design" for undergraduate students

  • 01.10.2001 - 15.12.2001

    Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
    Research on evolvable hardware with Prof. Jim Torresen

  • 07.09.2004 - 15.12.2004

    NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA
    Fulbright scholar; research on evolutionary electronics with Evolvable Hardware group led by Dr. Adrian Stoica

  • 08.05.2012 - 12.05.2012

    Center for Industrial Electronics, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
    Teaching a 3-day intensive course on Evolutionary design and evolvable hardware

University activities

Brno University of Technology

  • Ethics Committee of BUT (11/2021 - )
  • Research Board of Brno University of Technology (2018 - )
  • Head of Department of Computer Systems at FIT (2/2016 - )
  • Chamber chair of Academic senate of FIT (10/2013 - 10/2019)
  • Member of Academic senate of FIT (2010 - )
  • Deputy Head of Department of Computer Systems at FIT (2005 - 2016)
  • Research Board of the Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology (2008 -)

Other Universities

  • Research Board of the Faculty of Information Technology, Czech Technical University in Prague (2009 -)
  • Research Board of Masaryk University (2015 -)
  • Research Board of VSB - Technical University of Ostrava (2021 - )
  • Ph.D study academic council of Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University (2018 - )
  • Ph.D study academic council of Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava (2018 - )

Non-University activities

  • Head of the Research programme 8 of the National Supercomputing Center IT4Innovations (2011 - 2020)

Industry cooperation

Prizing by scientific community

  • Best paper award at DDECS 2024 (Kielce, PL), with co-authors J. Klhůfek, M. Šafář, V. Mrázek, Z. Vašíček
  • The Commemorative Medal of FIT BUT (The Gold Medal), 2023
  • Best Paper Award nomination at EuroGP 2021, AICAS 2020
  • Silver Medal of Brno University of Technology (2019)
  • Bronze Medal at Humies 2018 (GECCO, Kyoto) for evolutionary approximation of complex arithmetic circuits (with M. Češka, J. Matyáš, V. Mrázek, Z. Vašíček, T. Vojnar)
  • Czech Science Foundation President Award 2017 for excellent results of the Advanced Methods for Evolutionary Design of Complex Digital Circuits project (press info, youtube video).
  • Best interactive presentation award at the Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE 2017) conference in Lausanne (with V. Mrazek, R. Hrbacek, Z. Vasicek)
  • Gold Medal at Humies 2015 (GECCO, Madrid) for evolutionary approximation of digital circuits (with Z. Vašíček)
  • Best paper award at NASA/ESA AHS 2013 (with R. Dobai)
  • Our SSCI-ICES paper was selected among top 15 papers out of 1025 submissions (with Z. Vašíček)
  • Silver Medal at Humies 2011 (GECCO, Dublin) for evolutionary design of digital circuits
  • Best paper award at MEMICS 2009 (co-authored with Z. Vašíček)
  • Best paper award at IARIA Future computing 2009 (co-authored with L. Žaloudek and V. Šimek)
  • Silver Medal at Humies 2008 (GECCO, Atlanta, USA) for evolutionary design of benchmark circuits
  • Best Paper Award Nominations at EuroGP 2008, EvoHOT 2008, ICES 2008
  • Siemens Award for Outstanding Research Publication, 2005 (the book Evolvable Components, Springer Verlag, 2004)
  • Rector Award for outstanding pedagogical and research results, 2005
  • Honorable Mention - Human-Competitive Awards 2005 (Washington D.C.) 
  • Best paper award at the 2nd European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Hardware Optimisation EvoHOT 2005, Lausanne
  • Merit Award - HUMAN-COMPETITIVE AWARDS IN GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION at 2004 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2004) in Seattle, USA
  • Siemens Award for Outstanding Ph.D thesis, 2003
  • Josef Hlávka Award for research 2003
  • Best presentation award at the Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware conference ICES 2003, Trondheim
  • Best paper award at the IEEE Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems Workshop, 2002
  • Best paper award at the EEICT Student Conference, 2002
  • Siemens Award for Ph.D. students, 2000
  • Siemens Award for MSc. Thesis, 1999
  • FEI BUT Dean's Awards for MSc. Thesis, 1999
  • AFCEA Award for MSc. Thesis, 1999

Active participation in domestic and international associations and organisations

  • IEEE (CIS, CEDA) - Senior Member
  • ACM (SIGEVO)
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