CV

Work Experience and Internships:

  • 09/2010 – present School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews – Tutor and Demonstrator for undergraduate students
  • 09/2010 – 12/2010 Disability Services, University of St Andrews – Note taker for disabled students
  • 03/2010 – 07/2010 HITLab Australia, Launceston, Tasmania, AU – Research Intern
  • Along with working on a number of research papers on multimodal interfaces, I helped establish many of the collaboration tools in use for the BRAID project.
    HITLab AU Profile
    BRAID Homepage

  • 10/2009 – 03/2010 Jedličkův ústav a školy (JUS), Praha, CZ – Volunteer
  • JUS is a not-for-profit organisation for physically disabled children, consisting of several schools (both primary and secondary), halfway houses and other places of assistance. My role in JUS was to assist the resident linguist, Ms. Radka Majerová, with language therapy for anarthric clients, modification of computer peripherals for better accessibility as well as the creation of other non-computer based communication and teaching tools.
    JUS Homepage

  • 06/2008 – 09/2008 IBM, Dublin, IE – Extreme Blue Intern
  • I worked on the Extreme Blue Internship Project VIP3 – Visual Interface for Parallel Programming Patterns. My role in the project was largely to design and implement the visual interface the application, which was integrated into the Eclipse IDE and to define the user interaction patterns.
    Extreme Blue Dublin Homepage

  • 09/2007 – 05/2009 Students’ Union Services, Dublin, IE – Shop Assistant
  • 08/2007 – 06/2008 Microsoft, Dublin, IE – Microsoft Student Partner
  • I was the Microsoft Student Partner for UCD in the first year of the MSP program in Ireland. My role was to expand knowledge about Microsoft product on campus by organising outreach events such as programming competitions.
    Microsoft Student Partner Homepage

  • 06/2007 – 08/2007 UCD, Dublin, IE – Research Intern
  • During the summer I conducted research as part of the ODCSSS Summer Research Internship, working specifically on project 13 – Programmer and Prover Memory. As a part of the project I developed a JML plug-in and started implementing a plug-in providing a fisheye view of source code, both for the Eclipse IDE.
    ODCSSS Homepage

  • 02/2006 – 03/2009 Beatrice’s Translations & Tour Guiding Services, Dublin, IE – Translator/Interpreter, Tour guide
  • I worked as a freelance translator and interpreter for Czech, Slovak and English languages and occasionally a tour guide around Dublin.

Education:

  • 2010 – presentUniversity of St Andrews, UK
  • Studying towards a PhD in Human Computer Interaction.
    SACHI (University of St Andrews Computer Human Interaction Research Group) Homepage

  • 2005 – 2009 University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland, B.A.(Hons.) Computer Science
  • Finished with first class honours, major subjects: Computer Science, Linguistics; average GPA above 3.68 (treshold for first class honours) in every year of studies
    University College Dublin Homepage

  • 2001 – 2005 Akademické gymnázium, škola hlavního města Prahy (Secondary Comprehensive School, City of Prague)
  • Leaving Certifcate passed with distinction

Competitions and Academic Awards:

  • 2010 SICSA Prize PhD Studentship
  • 2008 UCD Bachelor of Arts (Computer Science) Stage 3 Scholarship (Linguistics)
  • 2008 UCD Bachelor of Arts (Computer Science) Stage 3 Scholarship (Computer Science)
  • 2007 UCD Bachelor of Arts (Computer Science) Stage 2 Scholarship
  • 2007 3rd place in the 2nd UCD CSI Programming Contest, with Kirill Ignatiev
  • 2006 3rd place in the 1st UCD CSI Programming Contest, Division A

Other Activities:

  • 2011 – present Volunteer with SVS: Ice skating with for adults with learning disabilities in Dundee
  • 2010 – present Seminar Series Organiser for our research group SACHI
  • 2010 – present Student Representative Chair of the BCS Interaction Group
  • 2008 – 2009 New Members Officer of the UCD Shaolin Club
  • 2007 – 2008 PR Officer of the UCD Shaolin Club
  • 2007 – 2008 Treasurer of the UCD Spanish Society