CURRICULUM VITAE

Petra Vidnerová (roz. Kudová)

PERSONAL DATA

Full Name Petra Vidnerová
Born 7 May 1977 in Plzen, Czech Republic
Citizenship Czech Republic

AFFILIATION

Institution Institute of Computer Science,
  Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Address Pod Vodárenskou věží, 182 07 Praha 8
Phone (+420) 266 053 630
Fax (+420) 286 585 789
E-mail petra@cs.cas.cz
WWW http://www.cs.cas.cz/~petra

EDUCATION

2001 - 2007 PhD at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics,
  Charles University, Prague.
  Topic of PhD thesis: Learning with Regularization Networks.
  Supervised by Mgr. Roman Neruda, CSc.
   
2003 RNDr. in Computer Science,
  Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague.
   
1995 - 2001 Master (Mgr.) in Compute Science
  Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague.
Master thesis: Learning algorithms for RBF networks.
  Supervised by Mgr. Roman Neruda, CSc.
  Software project: MAGDON (Data Mining using genetic algorithms).
   

WORK EXPERIENCE

2001 - present Research assistant at Institute of Computer Science,
  Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
   
  One of the key developers of the multi-agent system Bang (system designed for hybrid models of artificial intelligence).
   
1996 - 2001 Teaching secondary school programming lessons (Pascal, C).

STAYS ABROAD AND SUMMER SCHOOLS

February 2006 Machine Learning Summer School. Canberra, Australia.
  Volunteering.
   
April - June 2005,
November 2005
Two visits at Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center (EPCC), Edinburgh University, as a grantee of HPC-Europa project.
Hosted by Prof. Ben Paechter, School of Computing, Napier University, Edinburgh, Unigted Kingdom.
   
July 2002 Neural Networks Summer School. Porto, Portugal.

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND EXPERIENCE

Machine learning, neural networks, RBF neural networks, regularisation networks, kernel methods, evolutionary methods, genetic algorithms, hybrid artificial intelligence methods.
Adaptive software agents, multi-agent systems.

PROGRAMMING SKILLS

C/C++, MPI, Perl, bash
PHP, SQL, JavaScript

LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE

English (CAE certificate)
German (elementary)