Dr. Ing. Josef Šivic

Dr. Josef Sivic holds a distinguished researcher position at the Czech Institute of Robotics, Informatics and Cybernetics at the Czech Technical University in Prague where he heads the Intelligent Machine Perception project and the ELLIS Unit Prague. He received a habilitation degree from Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris in 2014 and PhD from the University of Oxford in 2006. After Phd he was a post-doctoral associate at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received the British Machine Vision Association Sullivan Thesis Prize, three test-of-time awards at major computer vision conferences, and an ERC Starting Grant. He currently serves on the board of the European Laboratory of Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) and as a chairman of the AICZECHIA national AI research initiative.