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Machine learning researcher and PhD candidate at the Center for Machine Perception, Czech Technical University in Prague.

Experience

Researcher and PhD Candidate

Center for Machine Perception, Czech Technical University in Prague

Research on uncertainty quantification, prediction under distribution shift, reject-option prediction, and computer vision. Work on facial analysis within the FACIS project and CTU participation in the NIST Face Analysis Technology Evaluation.

Visiting Researcher

LMU Munich, Prof. Eyke Hüllermeier's group

Research stay focused on uncertainty quantification in machine learning.

Machine Learning Engineer

Porsche Engineering via CIIRC CTU, Prague

Perception algorithms for adaptive cruise control, radar-based road-shape estimation, and camera-based road-surface analysis.

Teaching

Teaching Assistant, Machine Learning Fundamentals

Czech Technical University in Prague

Leading the graduate seminars and running the homework assignments and Kaggle challenges.

Teaching Assistant, Statistical Machine Learning

Czech Technical University in Prague

Leading the graduate seminars and running the homework assignments.

Thesis Supervision

Czech Technical University in Prague

Master's theses: Radim Průdek, real-time visual localization for UAVs (2026); Vojtěch Vaněček, weakly supervised age estimation (2026). Bachelor's thesis: Jakub Adamec, automated recognition of trading cards (2026, Dean's Award). All graded A.

Education

PhD Programme in Machine Learning

Czech Technical University in Prague

Master's in Cybernetics and Robotics

Czech Technical University in Prague

Bachelor's in Cybernetics and Robotics

Czech Technical University in Prague

Awards

Dean's Award for Outstanding Teaching, FEE CTU

Awarded in the teaching assistant category for the winter semester 2025/26, selected by a dean's commission primarily on the basis of student evaluations.

Minister of the Interior Award, FACIS project

Top Reviewer, NeurIPS 2025

Dean's Award for Master's thesis

Service

Reviewer

NeurIPS 2025–2026 · AAAI 2026–2027 · ECCV 2026 · WACV 2026–2027

Contact

paplhjak@fel.cvut.cz
paplham.jakub@gmail.com
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Office: +420 224 355 729 · Personal: +420 775 417 522