Curriculum Vitae

Scientific achievements & awards:

• now: Google scholar H-index=18, over 1500 citations, Reviewer TPAMI, RAL, CVPR, ECCV, AAAI, NeurIPS, IROS, ICRA.

• 2021: One of four leaders of DARPA Subterranean Challenge. (2x bronze medal in system track and 1x silver medal in virtual track).

• 2018: Dean’s award for the best lecturer in Learning for Robotics course in 2018 .

• 2017: Our paper has been selected for oral at ICCV (Rank-A* conference, 2% acceptance ratio for orals).

• 2014: Our paper was selected among 14 excellent works representing Czech Technical University in the national evaluation of the results of research organizations (II.pillar of RIV).

• 2011: Best reviewer award at CVPR 2011.

• 2009: CSKI award for the best PhD work in 2008

Research fellowships:

• 2008-2009: PostDoc at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, ESAT-PSI/VISICS (Belgium)

• 2006 : University of Surrey, Centre for Vision & Speech Signal Processing (UK)

• 2002 : Technical university of Delft - Fundatie van de vrijvrouwe van renswoude te delft (Netherland)

• 2001 : Technological Education Institute of Crete (TEI). Department of Computers and Multimedia. (Greece)

Projects:

• GACR Principal investigator (2024-2026) 24-12360S
  End-to-end differentiable physics-aware architectures for self-supervised learning in robotics

• GACR Principal investigator (2020-2022) 20-29531S
  Autonomous time-critical exploration of communication and perception-constrained environment by a team of robots.

• EU FP7 Investigator (2016-2019) ENABLE-S3
  European initiative to enable validation for highly automated safe and secure systems

• EU FP7 Investigator (2010-2013) NIFTI (EU FP7-ICT-247870)
  Natural human-robot cooperation in dynamic environments

• EU FP7 Investigator (2014-2017) TRADR (EU FP7-ICT-609763)
  Long-Term Human-Robot Teaming for Robot-Assisted Disaster Response

• GACR Principal investigator (2017-2019) GACR 17-08842S
  Robust motion planning and control on rough unstructured terrain.

• GACR Principal investigator (2011-2013) GACR P103/11/P700
  Tracking and Detection by the optimal sequence of linear predictors.

• GACR Principal investigator (2014-2016) GACR 14-13876S
  Perception methods for long-term autonomy of mobile robots.

• IBBT Principal investigator (2009-2010) Flemish IBBT-URBAN
  Traffic sign detection and localization from a mobile platform

• GACAS Investigator (2004-2008) MultiCam (1ET101210407)
  3D tracking with incrementally constructed model

Education:

• 2004-2008: PhD at the Czech Technical University CTU-FEL, defended Nov 7, 2008 [PhD thesis]

• 1998-2004: MSc at the Czech Technical University CTU-FEL [MSc thesis]

Karel Zimmermann is associate professor at the Czech Technical University in Prague. He received his PhD degree in cybernetics in 2008. He worked as postdoctoral re-searcher with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (2008-2009) in the group of prof Luc van Gool. His current H-index is 13 (google-scholar) and he serves as a reviewer for major journals such as TPAMI or IJCV and conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, IROS. He received the best lecturer award in 2018, the best reviewer award at CVPR 2011 and the best PhD work award in 2008. His journal paper has been selected among 14 best research works representing Czech Technical University in the goverment evaluation process (RIV). Since 2010 he has been chair of Antonin Svoboda Award (http://svobodovacena.cz. He was also with the Technological Education Institute of Crete (2001), with the Technical University of Delft (2002), with the University of Surrey (2006). His current research interests include learnable methods for robotics.