Curriculum vitae
Research and teaching in network security and network traffic monitoring, and — since September 2026 — industrial cybersecurity, cryptography and post-quantum cryptology at Rockwell Automation.
Experience
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September 2026 — present
Senior Security Research Engineer
Rockwell Automation
Research and technology assessment in industrial cybersecurity, cryptography, secure communication and post-quantum cryptology. Evaluation of security technologies, standards and cryptographic solutions for industrial automation environments, with a focus on embedded and long-lifecycle systems. Collaboration with engineering and product teams on technology adoption, security architecture decisions and long-term security strategy.
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2019 — present
Assistant Professor
Czech Technical University in Prague
Research in the Network Traffic Monitoring Laboratory (NETMON), including the FETA project (Flow-based Encrypted Traffic Analysis), and teaching of computer networking courses.
- Assistant Professor (part-time), Faculty of Information Technology (October 2026 — present)
- Research Assistant, Faculty of Information Technology (2019 — 2026)
- Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Information Technology (2022 — 2025)
- Lecturer, Cybersecurity Centre — NETACAD (2022 — present) — teaching Python programming, machine learning and deep learning to professional and student audiences.
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2020 — August 2026
Researcher
CESNET
Research and development of network monitoring tools for a national research and education network carrying traffic for roughly half a million users.
- Senior Network Security Researcher (2025 — 2026) — led training and deployment of AI/ML models for threat detection, published datasets and tools, and mentored students on cybersecurity projects.
- Network Security Researcher (2022 — 2025) — encrypted traffic analysis, anomaly detection and machine learning applied to backbone traffic.
- Programmer (2020 — 2022) — Python and C/C++ development of traffic analysis and monitoring tools.
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2018
Network and services administrator
TRIALOG, spol. s r. o.
Education
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2022 — 2026
Ph.D. in Informatics
Faculty of Information Technology, CTU in Prague
State doctoral examination passed in 2024. Dissertation Threat Detection in Network Traffic using Time Series Analysis, supervised by Assoc. Prof. Tomáš Čejka, Ph.D., submitted in January 2026 and defended on 7 October 2026. Full text, defence slides and reviewers' reports.
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2020 — 2022
Ing. (M.Sc.) in Informatics — Computer Security
Faculty of Information Technology, CTU in Prague
Master's thesis: Detection and recognition of periodic communication in network traffic (PDF, in Czech).
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2017 — 2020
B.Sc. in Informatics — Computer Security and Information Technology
Faculty of Information Technology, CTU in Prague
Bachelor's thesis: Automatic recognition of network devices and their dependencies (PDF, in Czech).
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2013 — 2017
Secondary Technical School, Jihlava
Funded research projects
Team member on national and European research projects in network security and monitoring.
| Period | Project | Funder & grant number |
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| 2026 | THOR — Threat Hunting using Open Resources | Ministry of the Interior, Czech Republic · VK02030197 |
| 2025 — 2026 | Open Science II | Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports · CZ.02.01.01/00/24_030/0015041 |
| 2025 | SOCCER — Security Operation Centre in the Central-Eastern Europe Region | European Union · 101128073 |
| 2022 — 2025 | FETA — Flow-based Encrypted Traffic Analysis | Ministry of the Interior, Czech Republic · VJ02010024 |
| 2022 — 2025 | Cyberthreats — AI for defence against cybersecurity attacks | Ministry of Defence, Czech Republic · OYCESNET20221 |
| 2020 — 2022 | CESNET e-Infrastructure | Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports · LM2023054 |
| 2020 — 2021 | SAPPAN — Sharing and Automation for Privacy Preserving Attack Neutralization | European Union · 833418 |
| 2020 — 2021 | Smart ADS — anomaly detection with Flowmon Networks | Technology Agency of the Czech Republic · TH04010073 |