Curriculum
Education and academic qualification
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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
- Citations: Scopus; Google Scholar
- DBLP Bibliography Server
- People Contributing to Cell Matrix Use, Application and Knowledge
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
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Academic internships abroad
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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
- Center for Genetic Programming, s.r.o. (project Workflow Management Generator)
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)