Curriculum vitae
Research and teaching in network security, network traffic monitoring, and — from September 2026 — the security of industrial and embedded systems.
Experience
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From September 2026
Senior Security Research Engineer
Rockwell Automation
Research on the security of industrial and embedded systems.
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2022 — present
Lecturer
Cybersecurity Centre — NETACAD
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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2022 — 2025
Researcher and teaching assistant
Faculty of Information Technology, CTU in Prague
Research on the FETA project (Flow-based Encrypted Traffic Analysis) in the Network Traffic Monitoring Laboratory (NETMON), and teaching of computer networking courses. Laboratory member since 2019.
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2018
Network and services administrator
TRIALOG, spol. s r. o.
Education
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2022 — present
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 submitted in January 2026; defence expected in October 2026.
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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.
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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.
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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 |