Awards

Ph.D. student Tomáš Michálek supervised by Zdeněk Hurák was awarded the prestigious 2022 Werner von Siemens Prize for the Best Thesis on Industry 4.0 (awarded by Siemens Czechia).

Best lecturer of the autumn-winter semester 2017/2018 at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague (awarded by the dean, based also on the student evaluation of teaching).

EEA Demonstrator Paper Prize at IFAC 2017 World Congress in Toulouse, France, for the paper “Time-Optimal Control for Bilinear Nonnegative-In-Control Systems: Application to Magnetic Manipulation” by Jiří Zemánek, Sergej Čelikovský a Zdeněk Hurák.

4th place at 2012 NIST Mobile Microrobotics Challenge during IEEE ICRA, May 2012, St.Paul, MN, USA. Then 5th place at 2013 IEEE RAS Mobile Microrobotics Challenge during IEEE ICRA, May 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany.

Prize of the Rector of Czech Technical University for an outstanding research paper (Hurak, Zdenek, Albrecht Böttcher, and Michael Sebek. ‘Minimum Distance to the Range of a Banded Lower Triangular Toeplitz Operator in l1 and Application in l1-Optimal Control’. SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization 45, no. 1 (2006): 107–22, https://doi.org/10.1137/S0363012903437940) of the year 2006.

Best paper (Robust stability of polynomials with complex coefficients) at an international student conference POSTER 2001, Prague, May 2001 (Czech Airlines prize).