Jiří Iša - Curriculum Vitae

• Name: Mgr. Jiří Iša
• E-mail: jiri.isaAT@matfyz.cz (replace AT by @ – anti-spam protection)
• Education:
  • 09/2007 – now: PhD student at Computer Science Department of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.
  • 09/2001 – 05/2007: Master's degree from Computer Science Department of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.
  • 09/2005 – 07/2006: Socrates/Erasmus exchange program, artificial intelligence at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• Work experience:
  • 08/2010 – now: Agent Technology Group, Czech Technical University. Researcher. UAV control.
  • 10/2008 – now: Teaching Introduction to Mobile Robotics and Seminar on Mobile Robotics at the Department of Software Engineering of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.
  • 9/2007 – 4/2008: Developing an anti-aircraft defense planning system for Retia s.r.o.
  • 7/2003 – 8/2005: Metis Consult s. r. o. (Czech site) – Business applications using artificial intelligence. Cooperation with Brainforce s. r. o.. Junior developer (VB, C#, C++, Java).
  • 7/2002 – 9/2002: Jo-Ann's Fabrics & Crafts, Hyannis, Massachusetts, USA. Promoted to the Inventory control supervisor position – goods receiving and placement, responsible for the stock area of the supermarket.
  • 9/2001 – 2008: Chess club Spartak Ústí nad Labem (Czech site). Chess tournaments organizing and co-organizing (up to three hundreds of players).
  • 9/2000 – 6/2001: Children and the youths house in Ústí nad Labem (Czech site). Chess school teacher. Organization of tournaments for children.
• Research highlights:
  • Teaching:
    • 02/2011 – now (summer semesters): Probabilistic Robotics (KSI MFF CUNI)
    • 10/2009 – now: Seminar on Applied Artificial Intelligence (KTIML MFF CUNI)
    • 10/2008 – now (winter semesters): Introduction to Mobile Robotics (KSI MFF CUNI)
    • 02/2009 – 09/2009: Seminar on Mobile Robotics (KSI MFF CUNI)
  • Publications:
    • Jiří Iša, Zuzana Reitermanová, Ondřej Sýkora: Cost-sensitive Classification with Unconstrained Influence Diagrams, Technical Report no. 2010/3, KTIML MFF UK, Praha, Czech Republic, November 2010, 11 pp.
    • Jiří Iša, Martin Dlouhý: Robotour — Robotika.cz Outdoor Delivery Challenge, AT&P Journal Plus 2/2010, Bratislava, Slovakia. ISSN: 1336-5010
    • Jiří Iša, Martin Dlouhý: Robotour — Robotika.cz Outdoor Delivery Challenge. Proceedings of Robotics in Education (RIE 2010), 16-17 September 2010, Bratislava, Slovakia, pp 89-93. ISBN 978-80-227-3353-3
    • Jiří Iša, Stanislav Petrásek: Cogito MART. Proceedings of Field Robot Event (FRE 2010). 11-13 June 2010, Braunschweig, Germany.
    • Jiří Iša, Zuzana Reitermanová, Ondřej Sýkora: On the Complexity of General Solution DAGs. Proceedings of The Eighth International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2009), 13-15 December 2009, Miami Beach, Florida, USA, pp. 673-678. ISBN 978-0-7695-3926-3
    • Martin Dlouhý, Jiří Iša, Jan Roubíček, Tomáš Roubíček: Eduro — Navigation in the Maize; Proceeding 7th Field Robot Event 2009, 6-8 July 2009, Wageningen, The Netherlands, 3 p.
    • Farský, M., Iša, J., Ritschelová, I., Sidorov, E. GDP Indicator and its Prediction Based on KLEM Production Function. Proceedings of International Scientific Conference Sustainability Accounting and Reporting on Micro-Economical and Macro-Economical Level, Brno, Czech Republic, May 19-21, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7395-081-1 / Farský, M., Iša, J., Ritschelová, I., Sidorov, E. Ukazatel GDP a jeho predikce pomocí produkční funkce KLEM. Sborník z mezinárodní vědecké konference Účetnictví a reporting udržitelného rozvoje na mikroekonomické a makroekonomické úrovni. Brno, Česká republika, 19-21 května 2008. ISBN 978-80-7395-080-4
    • Iveta Mrázová, Jiří Iša. Growing Fuzzy Inference Neural Networks: Their Principle and Application (MSM 0021620838, 1ET100300517); In: Intelligent Engineering Systems through Artificial Neural Network, ASME Press, New York, USA, 2007, pp. 405-410
    • Jiří Iša, Viliam Lisý, Zuzana Reitermanová, Ondřej Sýkora. Unconstrained Influence Diagram Solver: Guido. 19th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2007), Volume I, pp. 24-27, 29-31 October 2007, Patras, Greece
    • Miroslav Farský, Martin Neruda, Roman Neruda, Jiří Iša. Energy Balance and Balance of Reserves Fuels. Proceedings of 3rd International Conference "Environmental Accounting – Sustainable Development Indicators", 23-25 May 2007, Prague, Czech Republic. J. E. Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem. ISBN 978-80-7044-83-0
    • Jiří Iša. Artificial Neural Networks for Clustering and Rule Extraction. Master's thesis. Charles University in Prague, 2007
    • Zbyněk Winkler, Iveta Mrázová, Jiří Iša, Jakub Krchák. Neurokontrolér pro řízení pohybu robotů Daisy a Ester. MIS 2005; MATFYZPRESS Praha; ISBN 80-86732-70-3
    • Z. Winkler, I. Mrázová, J. Iša, J. Krchák: Neural Network Motor Controller; J.-D. Dessimoz, D. Obdržálek, A. Perreoud (Eds.), Proceedings of DARH 2005, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, pp. 4.3/1--6, 2005
  • Miscellanea:
    • Participant in several robotic competitions:
      • SICK Robot Day: 9th place; Waldkirch, Germany
      • Robotour — Robotika.cz Outdoor Delivery Challenge 2010: 1st place; Bratislava, Slovakia
      • RobotOrienteering 2010: 4th place; Rychnov nad Kněžnou, Czech Republic
      • Field Robot Event 2010: 3rd in the Professional Task, 3rd in Freestyle, 4th overall; Braunschweig, Germany
      • Straight with a robot 2010: 6th place, robot Ambra won 2nd place in voting of the spectators; Písek, Czech Republic
      • Eurobot 2010: 1st in the Czech cup (Prague, CZ), 30th in the world cup (Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland)
      • RobotChallenge 2010: 2nd place in Puck Collect; Vienna, Austria
      • Robotour 2009; Prague, Czech Republic
      • Field Robot Event 2009, Wageningen, Netherlands
      • RobotChallenge 2009, Eurobot 2005; Prague, Czech Republic
    • Winner of the Reinforcement Learning Competition 2008, Mountain Car task (25th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2008)), Helsinki, Finland
    • Scholarship for the Kohonen neural network applied in a robot (2004).
• Programming language used in the past:
  • Python, Java, Haskell, C, C++, Visual Basic, sh, PHP, .NET (VB.NET, C#), Prolog, Erlang
• Operating system used:
  • GNU/Linux (Debian, Ubuntu), FreeBSD, MS Win XP, Win 2k, Win98 (some time ago)
• Certificates:
  • Cambridge First Certificate in English