Executive Board
Pavel Hroboň, MD, MS
Pavel Hroboň, MD, MS
Physician and economist graduated from 2nd Medical Faculty of the Charles University in Prague and from School of Public Health at Harvard University in the USA.
Pavel Hroboň worked as Deputy Minister of Health responsible for health insurance, pharmaceuticals and medical devices. Previously, he was employed by the General Health Insurance Company of the Czech Republic as an advisor and director of strategy. He also gained experience as a consultant for McKinsey&Company. After graduation, he worked for several years as a physician specializing in the area of general internal medicine. He is the founder of the Advance Healthcare Management Institute and works at the Third Faculty of Medicine at Charles University, Czech Republic.
His work and research interest include health systems reforms, changes in funding and provision of health services required by the spread of chronic diseases, competition of payers and risk-adjustment systems, long-term care, reimbursement of pharmaceuticals, health technology assessment, the impact of reimbursement mechanisms on provider behaviour, and strategies of health insurers and providers.
Prof. Ing. Vladimír Mařík, DSc
Prof. Ing. Vladimír Mařík, DSc
Vladimír Mařík received his PhD. in 1979 and DrSc. degree in 1989 from the Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague, Czech Republic.
For more than 15 years he acted as the managing director of the Rockwell Automation Research Center, Prague. His professional interests include distributed AI, multi-agent systems, knowledge-based systems, machine learning, planning and scheduling for manufacturing. He acted as the Head of the Department of Cybernetics, CTU in the years 1999-2013. He is the founder and Scientific Director of the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics, and Cybernetics, CTU in Prague. He’s been a member of the R&D&I Council of the Czech Republic (2011-2015 and since 2018). He is co-author of the National Initiative for Industry 4.0 of the Czech Republic and a Board member of AICZECHIA, the Czech AI Community Network. He is co-author, principal investigator and coordinator of the Research and Innovation Centre on Advanced Industrial Production (RICAIP) since 2017 (approx. € 50M).
He is the author of more than 160 articles/conference papers, co-editor of 17 books, co-author of 5 granted patents. He acted as coordinator of other projects in AI and industrial robotics, such as the National Competence Centre on Cybernetics and AI (TA CR, € 8M).
He received the Medal of Merit for service to the Czech Republic in the area of science by the President of the Czech Republic (2017), the Cross of Honour for Science and Art awarded by the President of Austria (2003), Honoris Causa doctorate (dr.h.c.) from the Brno University of Technology (2003), top Czech science award Česká Hlava – Invention (2010). He acted as Editor-in-chief of IEEE SMC Part C (2005-2013), Board member of IEEE SMC (2005 to present), has received the IEEE SMC Outstanding Contribution Award (2012) and has been Vice-president of IEEE SMC (2013 to present).
Prof. RNDr. Václav Snášel
Prof. Vaclav Snasel
Vaclav Snasel’s research and development experience include over 30 years in the Industry and Academia. He works in a multi-disciplinary environment involving Industry 4.0, Energy 4.0, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Information Retrieval, Deep Learning, Data Compression, Machine Intelligence, Neural Network, nature, Bio-inspired computing, Data Mining, and applied to various real-world problems.
He has given more than 17 plenary lectures and conference tutorials in these areas. In addition, he has authored/co-authored several refereed journal/conference papers and book chapters. He has published more than 700 papers; ORCID:http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9600-8319 (520+ papers are recorded at Web of Science h-index 25 ResearcherID: B-8094-2009; 650+ papers are recorded at SCOPUS h-index 31; 10000+ citations at Google Scholar and h-index 43).
Currently, he serves as the Rector of VSB -Technical University of Ostrava.
Ing. Eva Troppová, PhD
Ing. Eva Troppová, PhD
Eva Troppová received her PhD from the Mendel University in Brno in the field of Wood Science and Technology. After graduation in 2015, she worked as a postdoc researcher and led the laboratory of thermal properties in the Josef Ressel Research Center Brno. She was involved in several national and international projects. In 2016 she acted as the project manager for European grants at the CEITEC Brno University of Technology. In 2017 she joined the Project Management Office of the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics, and Cybernetics at the Czech Technical University in Prague. As the project manager, she is responsible for the preparation and implementation of international grants, e.g. the successful H2020 Teaming project RICAIP (Research and Innovation Centre on Advanced Industrial Production, € 50M). She is the executive director of the creative studio VisionBase focused on branding and advertising.
Vít Dočkal, PhD
Vít Dočkal, PhD
Vít Dočkal graduated in 2006 from the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University with two doctoral degrees from the Department of Political Science, and International Relations and European Studies.
In the years of 2009 – 2013 he had been leading the ICRC Project Management Office at St. Anne’s University Hospital in Brno – a large R&D infrastructure funded by € 180M from the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) and the state funds. Since 2013 he works as the professional project manager at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics, and Cybernetics of the Czech Technical University in Prague (CIIRC CTU). As the head of the Project Management Office (2013 – 2021), he was responsible for the strategic project management agenda of € 100M+.
He led the project team during the preparation of the EDS Grant for the new CIIRC facility, OP RDE projects (Excellent Research Teams call of the ESIF-Operational Programme Research, Development and Education) and successful H2020 Teaming project RICAIP (Research and Innovation Centre on Advanced Industrial Production, € 50M). Vít Dočkal is the head of the CLAIRE Prague Office, closely involved in CLAIRE’s engagement with industry and in supporting the AI ecosystem in Central and Eastern Europe. He is also co-founder of the start-up company TRIX Connections.
