People
Regular Staff
Radek Ošlejšek
Head of Data Semantics and Human-in-the-Loop Analysis teams
Bruno Rossi
Head of Software Engineering team
Martin Macák
Head of Process Mining team
Karel Slavíček
Senior researcher in cybersecurity and IoT
Bangui Hind
Post-doc researcher in Big Data, VANET, AI
Notable Figures in the Lab History
Tomáš Pitner
Lab founder. Tomáš Pitner received his Ph.D. from Masaryk University in 1998. He was the founder and head of the Lasaris research laboratory until the end of May 2025, a member of the CERIT Strategic Board at the Faculty of Informatics of Masaryk University, and the scientific director of CERIT Science Park, in which he was a major contributor. Since 2007, he has been an external professor at the Faculty of Informatics, University of Vienna, where he constantly cooperates with the Research Center for Educational Technologies. Since 2025, he has been working as a full professor at Mendel University, Faculty of Business and Economics, Brno, Czech Republic.
Barbora Bühnová
In memory. Bara passed away in December 2024 and is deeply missed. Bara was the Head of the Software Architecture team and the Trust in Autonomous Systems team. Her numerous contributions and achievements include
- Co-founder of Czechitas
- Vice-Chair of the European Network for Gender Balance in Informatics
- Steering Committee member (and past chair) of ICSA
- Organizing Committee member of ICSE, FSE, ASE
- Many more...
PhD Students
Daša Kušniráková
Trust-driven and Ethical Supervision of Autonomous Digital Ecosystems (Bruno Rossi, formerly with Barbora Bühnová)
Danish Iqbal
A Model-based Approach for Building Trust in Autonomous System (Bruno Rossi, formerly with Barbora Bühnová)
Dávid Halász
Trust Building via Adaptive Safety in Autonomous Ecosystems (Bruno Rossi, formerly with Barbora Bühnová)
Jan Žižka
Complex Software Systems (with Bruno Rossi)
PhD Graduates
Pavel Drášil
Dissertation: System Integration in Web 2.0 Environment
Tomáš Gregar
Dissertation: Semantics Visualization and Visual Semantics: in E-learning and other Applications
Jiří Kolář
Dissertation: The Adoption of Business Process Management in Small and Medium Enterprises
Tomáš Ludík
Dissertation: Process Framework for Emergency Management in the Czech Republic
Daniel Tovarňák
Dissertation: Normalization of Unstructured Log Data into Streams of Structured Event Objects
David Gešvindr
Dissertation: Software Architecture Optimization in Cloud Applications (with Barbora Bühnová)
Stanislav Chren
Dissertation: Multi-layered Reliability Analysis of Smart Grids (with Barbora Bühnová)
Karolina D. Burská
Dissertation: Visual Analytics in Cybersecurity Education (with Radek Ošlejšek)
Other Lab Members
Guest professors
- Dalia Krikščiūnienė (Vilnius University)
- Renate Motschnig (Universität Wien)
- Melius Weideman (Cape Peninsula University of Technology)
External lecturers
Other past lab members
Team Photos
Photo by Tomáš Kučera (https://www.zonerama.com/tomaskucera)
Photo by Bruno Rossi in October 2022
