Work Experience

2020 - present time: Associate Professor at University of West Bohemia (Faculty of Applied Sciences, Department of Cybernetics)

2018 - present time: Senior Scientist R&D at Honeywell International (Aerospace Advanced Technology Europe, part-time)

2016 (January-February): Visiting Researcher at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics, Intelligent Sensor-Actuator-Systems Lab)

2013 - 2020: Researcher at University of West Bohemia (Faculty of Applied Sciences, Department of Cybernetics)

2013 - 2018: Scientist R&D at Honeywell International (Aerospace Advanced Technology Europe, part-time)

2010 - 2013: Scientist R&D at Honeywell International (Aerospace Advanced Technology Europe)

2005 - 2010: Researcher at University of West Bohemia (Faculty of Applied Sciences, Department of Cybernetics)

Education and Trainings

2003 - 2008: Ph.D. Study at University of West Bohemia (branch: Cybernetics; dissertation thesis title: Design of Nonlinear Estimation System for Filtering, Prediction and Smoothing)

2008 - 2003: Graduate Study at University of West Bohemia (specialization: Automatic Control)

1994 - 1998: Study at Secondary School of Electrical Engineering in Pilsen (specialization: Automation)

2011: Training on GPS/INS-Integration and Multisensor-Navigation (CCG e.V., Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany)

2017: Multisensor Navigation (GSA, Prague, Czech Republic)

Awards, Talks, and Tutorials

2020 IEEE AESS Harry Rowe Mimno Award for excellence in clear communications of technical material, paper ”State Estimation Methods in Navigation: Overview and Application” co-authored with S. K. Biswas, A. G. Dempster, T. Pany, P. Closas (2022)

Honeywell Global Technology Achievement Award - Terrain Aided Navigation System (2019)

Tutorial on Noise Covariance Matrices in State Space Models: Overview, Algorithms, and Comparison of Estimation Methods, International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION 2017-2023, IFAC World Congress 2023)

Invited Talk on Nonlinear Sigma-Point-Based State Estimation, Airforce Reasearch Laboratory, Rome, NY (Window On Science, 2016)

Honeywell Aerospace Technology Achievement Award - GPS-aided Attitude and Heading Reference System (2016)

Werner von Siemens Excellence Award for Basic Research - Novel Approaches and Methods of Nonlinear State Estimation and Optimal Decision under Uncertainty (2014)

Other Activities

Member of IEEE AESS Navigation Systems Panel

Associate Editor for the special issue Machine Learning Methods for Aerial and Space Positioning and Navigation (2023) of IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

"AI-Enhanced Navigation Systems" Session Chair at the 2023 IEEE/ION Position, Location, and Navigation Symposium (PLANS)

Special Session Chair of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems

Associate Editor of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems

Guest Area Editor of Journal of Advances in Information Fusion (JAIF) for the special issue 'Nonlinear Derivative-Free Filters: Theory and Applications'

Reviewer of several international journals (e.g., IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Automatica, Circuits, Systems & Signal Processing,Journal of Aerospace Engineering, International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Asian Journal of Control) and conferences (IFAC, IEEE, ISIF)

International Programme Committee Co-Chair of the 12th European Workshop on Advanced Control and Diagnosis (ACD2015)

Co-author of the toolbox for nonlinear state estimation in the Matlab environment (Nonlinear Estimation Framework) having more than 150 users worldwide