Prof. Ing. Lukás Sekanina, Ph.D.

Books and Edited Proceedings:

• Sekanina, L: Evolvable Components. Natural Computing Series, Springer-Verlag, 2004
• Sekanina L., Vasícek Z., Ruzicka R., Bidlo M., Jaros J., Svenda P.: Evolucní hardware: Od automatického generování patentovatelných invencí k sebemodifikujícím se strojum. Academia Praha 2009, 328 s. (in Czech)
• Hornby, G., Sekanina, L., Haddow, P.: Proc. of the 8th Int. Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware. LNCS 5216, Springer, 2008. Conference reports: Reportáze o konferenci: Události VUT, Automa, Sigevolution Vol 3, No 2, 2008, p. 23-24
• Kotásek Z., Bouda J., Cerná I., Sekanina L., Vojnar T., Antos D. (eds): Mathematical and Engineering Methods in Computer Science, 7th International Doctoral Workshop, Revised Selected Papers, Berlin, Springer-Verlag, 2012, p. 215

Education:

• PhD in information technology, Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology, 2002 (PhD thesis - Component Approach to Evolvable Systems, supervisor: Doc. Ing. Vladimír Drábek, CSc.), see also EvoNet - Featured members, Siemens Award 2003 for Outstanding Ph.D thesis, Siemens Award 2005 for Outstanding Research Publication
• MSc in computer science and engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Brno University of Technology, 1999  

Professional career:

• Professor - computer science and engineering, Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology, 2011
• Co-supervisor of Ruben Salvador, a PhD student at Center of Industrial Electronics, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (with dr. Eduardo de la Torre, 2010 - 2012)
• Associate professor, habilitation - computer science and engineering, Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology, 2006 (thesis: Evolutionary Approach to the Implementation Problem)
• September - December 2004 - Fulbright scholar conducting research with NASA Jet Propulsion Lab evolvable hardware group, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA
• from September 2002 - assistant professor with FIT VUT Brno
• October-November 2001 - visiting researcher at Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
• spring semester 2001 - visiting lecturer at Pennsylvania State University, The Behrend College, Erie, USA
• 1998-2002 - lecturer with FEI and FIT VUT Brno
• August-September 1999 - Software Development Europe Brno, programmer
• 1993-1997 - Fides s r.o. Brno, assistant engineer (2 months/year)

Research interests:

• theory and implementation of bio-inspired computing systems
• evolutionary algorithms and evolvable hardware 
• reconfigurable architectures
• cellular automata and cellular systems

Media:

• Czech TV CT24 - Milénium (25.7.2011) - AI vs. human
• Ceský rozhlas (19.7.2011) - Cestí vedci uspeli v prestizní irské soutezi (rozhovor)
• MF Plus 3.4.2009: Nastal konec soukromí?!
• Automa 12/2008: Od biologie k hardwaru
• Brnenský deník, technik.ihned.cz
• Electronic memory - Dobré rano z Moravy a Slezska in Czech TV (31. 5. 2007)
• AI and machine psyche - Dobre rano in Czech TV Ostrava (24.11.2006)
• Vesmír - "The Humies" again (November 2005)
• Vesmír - Evolutionary design beats creative engineers (January 2005)
• An article about my presentation in Erie as a part of the Fulbright Occasional Lecturer Program - The Behrend Beacon: A Penn State Erie Student  Publication Vol. LII, No. 13, 2004 (jpg)
• Obvody, které se samy vyvíjejí - Popularis at The Czech TV 2 (June 26, 2003) - download the movie [mp4] (18MB)
• Ceská hlava a svet vedy (June 2003)
• EvoNet - Featured members (May 2003)
• Vesmír - Soft Hardware (July 2002)

Evolvable Hardware at FIT:

• Research page: Evolvable Hardware at FIT
• New:  Summary of results

Awards:

• Silver Medal at Humies 2011 (GECCO, Dublin) for evolutionary design of digital circuits.
• The best paper award at MEMICS 2009 (co-authored with Z. Vasícek)
• The best paper award at IARIA Future computing 2009 (co-authored with L. Zaloudek and V. Simek)
• Silver Medal at Humies 2008 (GECCO, Atlanta, USA) for evolutionary design of benchmark circuits. Tisková zpráva VUT v Brne. Brnenský deník (25.7.2008), brnoinfo.cz, technik.ihned.cz, inovace.cz, Události VUT 
• Best Paper Award Nominations at EuroGP 2008, EvoHOT 2008, ICES 2008 
• Siemens Award for Outstanding Research Publication, 2005 (the book Evolvable Components)
• Rector's award for outstanding pedagogical and research results, 2005 
• Honorable Mention - Human-Competitive Awards 2005 (Washington D.C.) (Události VUT)
• The best paper award at the 2nd European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Hardware Optimisation EvoHOT 2005, Lausanne
• Merit Award - HUMAN-COMPETITIVE AWARDS IN GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION at 2004 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2004) in Seattle, USA 
• Siemens Award for Outstanding Ph.D thesis, 2003 (see Ekonom 5/2004, Události VUT))
• Josefa Hlávky Award for research 2003
• The best presentation award at the Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware conference ICES 2003, Trondheim 
• The best paper award at the IEEE Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems Workshop, 2002 (Události VUT)
• The best paper award at the EEICT Student Conference, 2002
• Siemens Award for PhD students, 2000
• Siemens Award for MSc. Thesis, 1999
• FEI VUT Dean's Awards for MSc. Thesis, 1999
• AFCEA Award for MSc. Thesis, 1999

Awards for my students:

• Zdenek Vasícek - Joseph Fourier Award for research in computer science and engineering  (2011)
• Michal Bidlo - Werner von Siemens Excellence Award for PhD thesis (2009)
• Zdenek Vasícek - Josef Hlávka Award for MSc thesis (2006)

Memberships:

• Research Board of the Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology
• Research Board of the Faculty of Information Technology, Czech Technical University in Prague
• Doctoral committee, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
• IEEE (CIS)

Editorial Board Member:

• IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (Associate Editor)
• International Journal of Innovative Computing and Applications (Inderscience Publishers)

Invited Talks, Tutorials and Lectures:

• Invited talks on conferences 
  • International Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Engineering Systems 2011 (Coimbra)
  • Evolvable hardware - Siemens Embedded Conference on Multi-core Systems 2011 (Prague)
  • Evolvable hardware: From successful applications to implications for the theory of computation - Unconventional Computing 2009 (Ponta Delgada)
  • Evolutionary synthesis of ordinary and polymorphic digital circuits - 15th Int. Conference on Soft Computing - Mendel 2009 (Brno)
  • Evolvable Hardware - 13th Int. Conference on Soft Computing - Mendel 2007 (Prague)
• Tutorials
  • Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference GECCO 2011 (Dublin)
  • IEEE Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems  DDECS 2010 (Vienna)
  • NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems AHS 2009 (San Francisco)
  • IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation  CEC 2009 (Trondheim)
  • Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference GECCO 2007 (London)
  • NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems AHS 2006 (Istanbul)
  • Parallel Problem Solving from Nature PPSN 2006 (Reykjavik)
• Others 
  • other lectures

Conference Chairing:

• MEMICS 2011: Annual Doctoral Workshop on Mathematical and Engineering Methods in Computer Science (Lednice) - program co-chair 
• ICES 2008: International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware (Praha) - program co-chair

Program committee member:

• NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems - AHS 2006 (Istanbul), 2007 (Edinburgh), 2008 (Noordwijk), 2009 (San Francisco), 2010 (Anaheim), 2011 (San Diego), 2012 (Nuremberg) 
• IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation - CEC 2005 (Edinburgh, UK), 2006 (Vancouver, CA), 2007 (Singapore), 2009 (Trondheim)  
• International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware - ICES 2003 (Trondheim, Norway), 2005 (Barcelona, Spain), 2007 (Wuhan, China), 2008 (Prague, Czech Rep.), 2010 (York, UK), 2013 (Singapore) 
• European Conference on Genetic Programming - EuroGP 2005 (Lausanne), 2006 (Budapest), 2007 (Valencia), 2008 (Napoli), 2009 (Tubingen), 2010 (Istanbul), 2011 (Torino), 2012 (Malaga) 
• Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference - GECCO 2007 (London), 2008 (Atlanta), 2009 (Montreal) 
• IEEE Workshop on Evolvable and Adaptive Hardware - WEAH 2007 (Honolulu), 2009 (Nashville, TN, USA)
• European Workshop on Hardware Optimisation EvoHOT 2004 (Coimbra, Portugal), 2005 (Lausanne, Switzerland), 2006 (Budapest, Hungary), 2007 (Valencia, Spain), 2008 (Napoli, Italy), 2012 (Malaga) 
• IEEE Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems - DDECS 2005 (Sopron, Hungary), 2006 (Prague), 2007 (Krakow), 2008 (Bratislava), 2009 (Liberec), 2010 (Vienna), 2011 (Cottbus), 2012 (Tallinn) 
• International Conference on ReConFigurable Computing and FPGAs - ReConFig 2009, 2010, 2011  (Cancun, Mexico)
• Annual Doctoral Workshop on Mathematical and Engineering Methods in Computer Science - MEMICS 2009 (Znojmo), 2010 (Mikulov), 2011 (Lednice)  
• International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications - ECTA  2011 (Paris)
• International Conference on Evolutionary Computation - ICEC 2010 (Valencia)
• International Conference on Emerging Security Technologies - EST 2010
• International Seminar on Intelligent Systems - ISIS 2010 (Kosice) 
• ECSIS Symposium on Bio-inspired, Learning, and Intelligent Systems for Security - BLISS 2007 (Edinburgh), 2008 (Edinburgh), 2009 (Edinburgh) 
• International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications - ISDA 2007 (Rio de Janeiro) 
• Complexity through Development and Self-Organizing Representations - GECCO Workshop CODESOAR 2006 (Seattle, USA)
• ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers - Special session on  Dependability Issues in Emerging Technologies 2006 (Ischia, Italy)
• European Modelling and Simulation Conference 2005 (Porto, Portugal), 2006 (Toulouse, France) 
• International Conference on Adaptive and Intelligent Systems - ICAIS 2009, 2011 (Klagenfurt)
• Special Session on Logic Synthesis Hot Anew at the Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design -DSD (Patras, 2009) 
• CEC 2003: Congress on Evolutionary Computation - Special Session on Evolutionary Design Automation (Canberra, Australia) 
• ECSIS Symposium on Intelligent Systems for Defense and Security - ISDS (Iasi, 2006)

Organizing committee member:

• ICES 2008: International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware (Praha)
• ECBS 2004: 11th Annual IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems (Brno)
• DDECS 2002: 5th IEEE International Workshop on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (Brno)
• PAD 2003 - Computer Architectures and Diagnostics for PhD students (Zvíkovské Podhradí) 

Reviewer:

• Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines (2005 -)
• IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (2003 -)
• IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics B, C (2005, 2009)
• IEEE Transactions on COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN of Integrated Circuits and Systems (2010)
• Computing and Informatics (2005, 2008, 2009, 2010)
• Radioengineering (2007, 2010) 
• Neural Network World (2007)
• IET Computers & Digital Technique (2008)
• Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications (2009)
• EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (2009)
• ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (2009)
• ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (2006)
• Neurocomputing (2006)
• IEE Proceedings - Computers and Digital Techniques (2004)
• Grantová agentura Ceské republiky
• Fulbrightova komise v CR

References/Citations:

• Citations 545 (updated Oct 25, 2011)
• DBLP Bibliography Server
• Scopus
• Microsoft Academic Search 
• Google Scholar
• IEEE Computational Intelligence Society - Task Force on Evolvable Hardware  
• Evolutionary Electronics Web Links
• People Contributing to Cell Matrix Use, Application and Knowledge

Patents, utility models:

• Sekanina L., Vasicek Z. Nonlinear image filter. Czech Industrial Property Office, utility model  UV020017/2009

Others:

• PAD 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010 - workshops on Computer Architectures and Diagnostics for PhD students
• Seminar of the Department of Computer Systems UPSY 2003 - now