Jan is a third-year Ph.D. student in information science and technology particularly interested in artificial intelligence, computer vision, and machine learning. He is a member of the Machine Perception Group (Nakayama Laboratory) at the University of Tokyo, which he joined in 2015. Before commencing his graduate studies at the University of Tokyo, he earned his bachelor’s degree in computer and information science at the Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic, where he was born and grew up.

His research focuses on computer vision, in particular on image generation and text in natural scene images. Recently, he has been interested in application of generative adversarial networks for handwritten text and text in natural scene images.

Interests: Computer Vision • Machine Learning • Artificial Intelligence • Image Generation

• 3rd place in the ICDAR 2017 Robust Reading Competition on Multilingual Scene Text Detection and Script Identification in the task of script identification

• MIRU 2020 Student Paper Award (Hataya R., Zdenek J., Yoshizoe K., Nakayama H.)
• The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) Annual Conference Student Incentive Award 2017
• Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship for Research Students
• Dean’s Award for an Outstanding Bachelor Thesis, Czech Technical University, 2014

I have worked as a teaching assistant for the following courses at the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology:

• Data Science