Curriculum Vitae

My education and experience

1. in Japanese studies, computer science and sotware development,
2. in the arts of aikidō and shodō.

Education

• 2013–2018 Charles University in Prague

  Bachelor degree in Japanese Studies, Faculty of Arts. Including a one-year stay at Nagoya university.

  Bachelor thesis: Polysemy of Japanese V-V compound verbs: a corpus account

  Graduated in 2018.

• 2009–2011 Charles University in Prague

  Master degree in Theoretical Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics.

  Master thesis: Grammar-based genetic programming (see the Algorithms for Grammar-based Evolution web page).

  Graduated in 2011.

• 2006–2009 Charles University in Prague

  Bachelor degree in General Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics.

  Bachelor thesis: Grammatical Evolution (see the Algorithms for Grammar-based Evolution web page).

  Graduated in 2009.

• 2002–2006 Gymnázium Jana Keplera, Prague

Stays abroad

• October 2015–September 2016 Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

  1-year Japanese Language and Culture course under Japanese government scholarship (MEXT Japanese Studies Student Scholarship).

• July 2014 Seinan Gakuin University, Fukuoka, Japan

  30-day Intensive Japanese Language Programme

Experience in software development

• 2004–present Lokiware (http://lokiware.info/)

  Independent software developer for Mac OS X (i.e. making my own stuff and selling licenses).

• Custom programming (mostly OS X, also Unix, web technologies).

Software development skills

• Programming languages and environments: Objective-C, both application-level programming in Cocoa and low-level runtime hacking. Xcode. Plain C. C++. Python. A decent knowledge of Java and Haskell. Basics of Ruby and Prolog. Basics of PowerPC, x86 and x86-64 instruction sets, OS X ABI, etc.

• Scripting languages: AppleScript, including interaction with Cocoa and development of scripting additions. Bourne/Bash shell scripting.

• Operating systems: OS X, UNIX. Linux, and UNIX in general as an advanced user (shells, standard utilities, compiler tool chain).

• Web and databases: A decent knowledge of XML, XSLT, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, basic Apache configuration, WordPress, nanoc.

• Domain-specific software: LaTeX (typesetting), R (statistical computing environment), MATLAB/octave as an advanced user. Basics of Inkscape (vector graphics) and various image editing tools (GUI and CLI).

Languages

English (proficient, CAE grade A = CEFR level C2), Czech (native), French (working proficiency, except I am really bad at orthography), Japanese (advanced, JLPT N2 as of December 2014, constantly learning).

I hope to resume my attempts at Classical Chinese and I am slowly forgetting German. I love learning languages as well as studying them (i.e. linguistics).

Aikidō: a martial art

• 2015–2016 practicing at Aoshikai, Nagoya, Japan

  A year of practice under the guidance of Morisaki Masafumi sensei (5th dan) with regular attendance at seminars of Endō Seishirō shihan (8th dan), Kuribayashi Takanori shihan (7th dan), and others.

• 2013–present teaching at Aikido Praha Vinohrady

  Organizing and teaching aikido children’s classes (except the year 2015/16, when I was in Japan). Starting from October 2016 I am teaching one class in Czech and one or two classes in English.

• 2008–present practicing at Aikido Praha Vinohrady

  I have been practicing aikido under the guidance of Martin Švihla since 2008, attending seminars of Franck Noël, Philippe Gouttard, Stefan Stenudd, and others. Together with other senior members I share various responsibilites at the dojo.

Shodō: japanese calligraphy

• 2013–present Japanese calligraphy

  Performing Japanese calligraphy at various events events for both Japanese and Czech companies and non-profits: writing calligraphies for guests on demand, teaching workshops for children and adults. I have studied calligraphy since 2012.

  Exhibited my works at calligraphy exhibitions in Prague (2014, 2015), organized by my teacher René Ochiai (then René Skupý). I also contributed to their organization.

  Organized weekly calligraphy sessions Feb–Jun 2015 at Shodō.cz (friends of Japanese calligraphy — skupina přátel japonské kaligrafie).

General Interests

• Humans, Language & Computers: Linguistics and natural language processing. Evolutionary algorithms and other metaheuristics. Cognitive science. Functional programming. User interaction.

• Japanese language (see Education above) and Japanese culture (see Aikidō and Shodō above).

• Myself: Learning about myself and becoming one with myself through aikido (quite consistently since 2008), zazen (only recently), vipassana (on and off since 2013), yoga (2011–2013), and other meditative practices. I do not subscribe to any particular dogma or teaching.

• Natural movement (i.e. just movement that is natural, not MovNat®). Minimalist shoes.

• Preparing and enjoying tea and coffee;-)