Doc. Ing. Jiří Jaroš, Ph.D.

Education:

• 2017 - Associate professor in Information Technology, Faculty of Information Technology, BUT Brno, Czech Republic
• 2010 - Ph.D. in Information Technology, Faculty of Information Technology, BUT Brno, Czech Republic
• 2003 - Ing. (Master of Science in Computer Engineering), Faculty of Information Technology, BUT Brno, Czech Republic
• 1998 - Gymnasium Tišnov

Professional career:

• 11/2017 - present - Associate Professor, Department of Computer Systems, Brno University of Technology, Czech republic.
• 11/2017 - present - Member of Academic Senate of Brno University of Technology
• 08/2013 - present - Associate staff, Biomedical Ultrasound Group, Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University College London, London, UK.
• 08/2013 - 10/2017 - Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Systems, Brno University of Technology, Czech republic
• 01/2014 - 12/2016 - Marie-Curie Fellow, SoMoPro-II, Czech Republic.
• 02/2013 - 07/2013 - Research associate, The Centre for Computational Science,  Department of Chemistry, University College London, UK.
• 03/2011 - 01/2013 - Research fellow, School of Computer Systems, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
• 2006 - a week stay at HEC Lausanne, CH.

Research interests:

• Parallel and distributed systems
• General purpose computation on GPU
• High performance computing
• Computer architectures
• Systems on chip
• Bayesian optimisation algorithms
• Genetic algorithms

Awards:

• Excellent Poster Presentation Award - Signal Frequency Content and Appearance of Tumors in Photoacoustic Breast Tomography: A Simulation by Maura Dantuma, Felix Lucka, Bradley Treeby, Jiri Jaros, Ben Cox, and Srirang Manohar -  Ultrasonics 2018, Caparica, Portugal. 
• Research poster Award - GPU-accelerated Simulation of Elastic Wave Propagation by Kristian Kadlubiak, Jiri Jaros, and Bradley Treeby - HPC applications,  ISC 2018, Frankfurt, Germany.
• Bronze Medal of the Faculty of Information Technology - Brno, CZ, 2015.
• Best paper award nomination - EvoStar 2012, Malaga, Spain.
• The Rector's award for excellent scientific research and representation of Brno University of Technology at international conferences, 2010.
• Best paper award nomination - GECCO 2010, Portland, USA.
• Best paper award nomination - EvoStar 2010, Istanbul, Turkey.
• Honorable Mention in Human-Competitive Awards, London, UK, 2007.
• Jan Hlavička Award for Best Paper Presented at  Working Seminary "Computer architectures and diagnostics" for PhD Students PAD 2005.

Public media:

All materials in Czech language only

• 2018
  Czech Television - Přesněji a bez radiace. V Brně vyvíjí přístroj, který má nahradit mamograf, article
  Brno University of Technology - Přesněji a bez radiace. V Brně vyvíjí přístroj, který má nahradit mamograf, press release
  iDNES.cz - Testují nový přístroj, který včas a šetrně odhalí rakovinu prsu, interview.
  novinky.cz - Brněnští výzkumníci vyvíjejí přístroj bez radiace, který by mohl nahradit mamograf, article.
• 2017
  Věda, výzkum, Inovace - Vědci pod mikroskopem díl# 6: Jiří Jaroš, interview.
• 2016
  Brněnský deník - Ultrazvukem odstraní nádor bez jediného řezu. I za pomoci 64 počítačů, article.
• 2015
  iDNES.cz - Odstranit nádor by mohlo jít i bez skalpelu. V mozku se uvaří a odumře, article.
  ZVUT.cz - Odstraníme nádor z mozku, epileptické záchvaty i třes rukou. Bez jediného řezu, tvrdí programátor Jiří Jaroš, interview.
  E15.cz - Jiří Jaroš: Do pěti let odoperujeme mozek bez jediného řezu, interview.
  Czech Television - Ph.D. holubi se vracejí. Do Brna je lákají granty, interview.
  Česká televize - SoMoPro projekt, Události v regionech, news report.

Citations:

• Citations on Google Scholar
• Citations on Scoupus
• Citations on WebOfScience

Memberships:

• Academic senate BUG (2018-2022)
• Research Council IT4Innovations (2018-2022)
• ICONS 2012 Program Committees
• IEEE Computer Society
• IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
• ACM Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
• Applied Algorithms Evolutionary Research Group
• Computer Architecture Research Group
• Program committee PAD
• Organisation committee PAD 2010
• Organisation committee PAD 2010

Other interests:

• Bass guitar (Souperman, U2 Desire Revival, Fearmusic)
• Motorbike (Honda Hornet 600, 2004)
• Sport Shooting (B&H Magnum, CZ Shadow 2, 9mm Luger)
• Skying
• Travelling and Aussie BBQ

My favorite links:

• k-Wave Toolbox - A MATLAB toolbox for the time-domain simulation of acoustic wave fields. I am an active researcher on this project
• HemeLB -  A high performance parallel lattice-Boltzmann code for large scale fluid flow in complex geometries. I participated in this project while working at UCL

Session chair at:

• Track chair at Doctoral Workshop on Mathematical and Engineering Methods in Computer Science, Telc, CZ, 2014
• The Sixth International Conference on Systems, ICONS, Sint Maarten, The Netherlands Antilles, 2011
• Genetic and Evolutionary Computational Conference GECCO, Atlanta, GA, USA, 2008