Zdeněk Hurák

Docent (~ Associate professor) of Technical Cybernetics, Head of the Department of Control Engineering, Guarantor of Cybernetics and Robotics graduate study program, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague (ČVUT FEL).

Education

Czech Technical University in Prague | Faculty of Electrical Engineering | Prague, Czechia | PhD | Control Engineering and Robotics | 2000–2004

Military Academy Brno (now University of Defence) | Faculty of Air Force and Air Defence | Brno, Czechia | Ing (~ MEng/MSc) | Avionics and weapon systems | 1992–1997

Experience

University of California, Santa Barbara | Visiting researcher within Fulbright Fellowship | January 2014 – August 2014

Eindhoven University of Technology | Visiting researcher | May 2008 – December 2008

Iowa State University | Visiting researcher within Boeing Fellowship | March 1999 – May 1999

Service to the academic community (local and international)

Current

Member of the Internal Evaluation Board of the Czech Technical University in Prague (2026–…).

Member of General Assembly of European Control Association (EUCA) representing Czechia (2024–…).

Member of the editorial board: Automa (Czech industry-oriented journal).

Reviewing (mostly) for IEEE TAC, IEEE TCST, IFAC Automatica, IFAC Mechatronics, IFAC Control Engineering Practice, and similar journals.

Past

Senior Member of IEEE (member since 2000); served as Chair of Control Systems Chapter of Czech-Slovak (Czechoslovakia) Section of IEEE.

Member of the editorial board: Kybernetika journal (2008–2014).

Member of IPC of conferences: Co-Chair of (Biennial) International Conference on Process Control (PC), Štrbské Pleso, Slovakia, 2017–2025; IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control, September 28-30, 2011, Denver, CO, USA; 7th International Workshop on Multidimensional (nD) Systems (nDS11), September 5-7, 2011, Poitiers, France.

Member of the Scientific Board of Faculty of Chemical Engineering, University of Chemical Technology (VŠCHT), Prague, Czechia (2019–2023).

Member of the Jury for the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports Prize for Excellent Educational Activities in Higher Education (2019–2024).

Zdeněk Hurák