Lukáš Sekanina

Former Ph.D. students

• Michal Bidlo (defended in 2009), Zbyšek Gajda (2011), Zdeněk Vašíček (2012), Martin Žádník (2013, co-supervised with Dr. Kořenek), Ruben Salvador (UPM Madrid, 2015, co-supervised with Dr. Eduardo de la Torre), Pavol Korček (2016, co-supervised with Dr. Fučík), Jiří Petrlík (2016), Radek Hrbáček (2017), Michaela Drahošová (2017), Miloš Minařík (2018), Vojtěch Mrázek (2018, co-supervised with Dr. Vašíček), David Grochol (2019), Jakub Lojda (2023, former supervisor - Doc. Kotásek), Jakub Husa (2024)

Awards to my Ph.D. students

• Vojtěch Mrázek - Czech Head (Doctorandus prize in technical sciences, 2019)
• Vojtěch Mrázek - Joseph Fourier Award for research in computer science and engineering - 1st place (2019)
• Vojtěch Mrázek - Antonín Svoboda Award for the Best Ph.D. Thesis - 1st place (2018)
• Zdeněk Vašíček - Joseph Fourier Award for research in computer science and engineering - 1st place (2011)
• Michal Bidlo - Werner von Siemens Excellence Award for Ph.D. thesis (2009)
• Zdeněk Vašíček - Josef Hlávka Award for MSc thesis (2006)

Lukáš Sekanina is engaged in the research of bio-inspired artificial intelligence, especially genetic programming, and applications in the fields of automated design, approximation, and adaptation of hardware and software. He is among the 2% most cited scientists in the field of Information & Communication Technologies [Plos Biology 2020, updated 2024]. 

Books and Edited Proceedings

References and Citations

• Citations: Scopus; Google Scholar
• DBLP Bibliography Server
• People Contributing to Cell Matrix Use, Application and Knowledge

Journal Editorial Boards

• IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (Associate Editor, 2011 - 2014)
• Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines (Editorial Board Member 2012 - 2016, Associate Editor 2016 - )
• International Journal of Innovative Computing and Applications (2007 - )
• Radioengineering (2017 - 2018)
• Springer's Natural Computing book series (Advisory Board member, 2019 - )

Conference Invited Talks, Keynotes, and Tutorials

• Conference Invited Talks and Keynotes (since 2020)
  • Cartesian Genetic Programming in Electronic Design Automation at the Graph-Based Genetic Programming Workshop at GECCO 2023 (Lisbon, Portugal, 2023)
• Tutorials (since 2020)
  • IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics SMC 2022 (Praha, CZ)
  • IEEE World Congres on Computational Intelligence WCCI 2022 (Padua, IT)
  • Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems DDECS 2022 (Praha, CZ)
  • Design Automation Conference DAC 2021 (San Francisco, US)
  • IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation CEC 2021 (Glasgow, UK)
  • European Test Symposium ETS 2021 (Tallinn, EE)
• Invited talks (since 2020)
  • CSE Seminar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, US (June 5, 2024) link
  • Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno (December 5, 2023)
  • TU Dresden (January 19, 2023) link
  • Universität Leipzig, ScaDS.AI, Leipzig (January 18, 2023)
  • Prague computer science seminar, Prague (June 9, 2022) link
  • University of Lyon - Lyon Institute of Nanotechnology, FR (May 10, 2022)
  • Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava (February 11, 2020)
• complete list

Steering Committee

• IEEE Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (since 2013; a chair since 2020)
• European Conference on Genetic programming (2019 -)

Conference Chairing

• DATE 2025: Design Automation and Test in Europe - chair of track D (Design)
• DATE 2024: Design Automation and Test in Europe - chair of track D (Design)
• EvoStar 2023 - Local co-chair (Brno, CZ)
• DATE 2023: Design Automation and Test in Europe - chair of track D (Design)
• DATE 2022: Design Automation and Test in Europe - topic chair (D11 - Approximate computing)
• DATE 2021: Design Automation and Test in Europe - topic chair (D11 - Approximate computing)
• DDECS 2021: Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (Vienna, AT) - PC co-chair
• DATE 2020: Design Automation and Test in Europe - topic chair (D10 - Approximate computing)
• DDECS 2020: Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (Novi Sad) - topic chair
• EuroGP 2019: European Conference on Genetic Programming (Leipzig, DE) - program co-chair
• EuroGP 2018: European Conference on Genetic Programming (Parma, IT) - program co-chair
• DATE 2017: Special Session - Biologically-inspired techniques for smart, secure and low power SoCs (Lausanne, CH) - SS co-chair
• EuroGP 2017: 20th European Conference on Genetic Programming (Amsterdam, NL) - publication chair
• DTIS 2016: 11th International Conference on Design & Technology of Integrated Systems in Nanoscale Era (Istanbul, TR) - program chair
• IEEE DDECS 2014: Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (Warsaw, PL) - general vice-chair
• IEEE DDECS 2013: Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (Karlovy Vary, CZ) - general chair
• MEMICS 2011: Annual Doctoral Workshop on Mathematical and Engineering Methods in Computer Science (Lednice, CZ) - program co-chair
• ICES 2008: International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware (Praha, CZ) - program co-chair

Program Committee Membership

• 2024: CEC, DATE, DDECS, EuroGP, GECCO, IEEE CAI
• 2023: CEC, DATE, DDECS, EuroGP, GECCO
• 2022: CEC, DATE, DDECS, EuroGP, GECCO
• 2021: AICAS, CEC, DATE, DDECS, EuroGP, GECCO, ICES-SSCI, IGSC
• 2020: AICAS, CEC, DATE, DDECS, EuroGP, GECCO, ICES-SSCI, SMC
• 2019: AICAS, AxC, AHS, CEC, DATE, DDECS, EuroGP, GECCO, SMC
• 2018: AxC, AHS, CEC, DATE, DDECS, EuroGP, GECCO, ICES-SSCI
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Brno University of Technology

• Ethics Committee of BUT (11/2021 - )
• Research Board of Brno University of Technology (2018 - )
• Head of Department of Computer Systems at FIT (2/2016 - )
• Chamber chair of Academic senate of FIT (10/2013 - 10/2019)
• Member of Academic senate of FIT (2010 - )
• Deputy Head of Department of Computer Systems at FIT (2005 - 2016)
• Research Board of the Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology (2008 -)

Other Universities

• Research Board of the Faculty of Information Technology, Czech Technical University in Prague (2009 -)
• Research Board of Masaryk University (2015 -)
• Research Board of VSB - Technical University of Ostrava (2021 - )
• Ph.D study academic council of Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University (2018 - )
• Ph.D study academic council of Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava (2018 - )

• Head of the Research programme 8 of the National Supercomputing Center IT4Innovations (2011 - 2020)

• Center for Genetic Programming, s.r.o. (project Workflow Management Generator)

• Best paper award at DDECS 2024 (Kielce, PL), with co-authors J. Klhůfek, M. Šafář, V. Mrázek, Z. Vašíček
• The Commemorative Medal of FIT BUT (The Gold Medal), 2023
• Best Paper Award nomination at EuroGP 2021, AICAS 2020
• Silver Medal of Brno University of Technology (2019)
• Bronze Medal at Humies 2018 (GECCO, Kyoto) for evolutionary approximation of complex arithmetic circuits (with M. Češka, J. Matyáš, V. Mrázek, Z. Vašíček, T. Vojnar)
• Czech Science Foundation President Award 2017 for excellent results of the Advanced Methods for Evolutionary Design of Complex Digital Circuits project (press info, youtube video).
• Best interactive presentation award at the Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE 2017) conference in Lausanne (with V. Mrazek, R. Hrbacek, Z. Vasicek)
• Gold Medal at Humies 2015 (GECCO, Madrid) for evolutionary approximation of digital circuits (with Z. Vašíček)
• Best paper award at NASA/ESA AHS 2013 (with R. Dobai)
• Our SSCI-ICES paper was selected among top 15 papers out of 1025 submissions (with Z. Vašíček)
• Silver Medal at Humies 2011 (GECCO, Dublin) for evolutionary design of digital circuits
• Best paper award at MEMICS 2009 (co-authored with Z. Vašíček)
• Best paper award at IARIA Future computing 2009 (co-authored with L. Žaloudek and V. Šimek)
• Silver Medal at Humies 2008 (GECCO, Atlanta, USA) for evolutionary design of benchmark circuits
• Best Paper Award Nominations at EuroGP 2008, EvoHOT 2008, ICES 2008
• Siemens Award for Outstanding Research Publication, 2005 (the book Evolvable Components, Springer Verlag, 2004)
• Rector Award for outstanding pedagogical and research results, 2005
• Honorable Mention - Human-Competitive Awards 2005 (Washington D.C.) 
• 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
• Josef Hlávka Award for research 2003
• Best presentation award at the Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware conference ICES 2003, Trondheim
• Best paper award at the IEEE Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems Workshop, 2002
• Best paper award at the EEICT Student Conference, 2002
• Siemens Award for Ph.D. students, 2000
• Siemens Award for MSc. Thesis, 1999
• FEI BUT Dean's Awards for MSc. Thesis, 1999
• AFCEA Award for MSc. Thesis, 1999

• IEEE (CIS, CEDA) - Senior Member
• ACM (SIGEVO)