Curriculum vitae

Research and teaching in network security, network traffic monitoring, and — from September 2026 — the security of industrial and embedded systems.

Publication list

Experience

  1. From September 2026

    Senior Security Research Engineer

    Rockwell Automation

    Research on the security of industrial and embedded systems.

  2. 2022 — present

    Lecturer

    Cybersecurity Centre — NETACAD

    Teaching Python programming, machine learning and deep learning to professional and student audiences.

  3. 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.
  4. 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.

  5. 2018

    Network and services administrator

    TRIALOG, spol. s r. o.

Education

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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
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

Expertise

Network traffic monitoring Time series analysis Encrypted traffic classification Anomaly detection Machine learning Deep learning IP flow measurement Python C / C++ Data science

Research output

17 peer-reviewed international publications — 3 journal articles and 14 papers in international conference proceedings. Journals: Computer Networks, Nature Scientific Data, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (all Q1).
187 citations, h-index 6, i10-index 4 on Google Scholar (August 2026); 164 citations and h-index 7 on ResearchGate.
Seven open datasets and several public tools, including CESNET-TimeSeries24, CESNET-CC25 and the CESNET TS-Zoo library.

Languages

Czech — native English