Jan Zdenek

Jan Zdenek

Research Scientist

CyberAgent AI Lab

Bio

Jan is a research scientist at CyberAgent, where he works on artificial intelligence and computer vision with a focus on image generation and editing. He received his PhD in Information Science and Technology from the University of Tokyo, where his research centered on image generation. Prior to that, he received his Master’s degree in Creative Informatics from the University of Tokyo, and his Bachelor’s degree in Computer and Information Science from the Czech Technical University in Prague. Born and raised in the Czech Republic, he currently works in Japan.

Education

PhD in Information Science and Technology

2017-10-01
2022-09-30

University of Tokyo

MS in Information Science and Technology

2015-09-23
2017-09-30

University of Tokyo

BE in Information and Computer Science

2011-09-01
2014-06-30

Czech Technical University in Prague

Interests

Artifical Intelligence Computer Vision Machine Learning Image Generation

Experience

Research Scientist

CyberAgent

Conducting research on image generation and editing tasks.

Research Assistant

The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology

Participated in Beyond AI, a joint research program of The University of Tokyo and Softbank. Research on image generation of handwritten text and text in natural scene images.

Machine Learning Engineer Intern

RESTAR

Participated in development of an OCR system for automatic conversion of real estate data documents from PDF to machine-readable form for an automatic generation of database of real estate data.

Research Intern

Center for Machine Perception

Participated in research on scene text detection and recognition.

Education

PhD in Information Science and Technology

University of Tokyo

Research on image generation and editing. Thesis on generation and editing of handwritten text.

MS in Information Science and Technology

University of Tokyo

BE in Information and Computer Science

Czech Technical University in Prague

Publications (w/ peer review)
Other papers

Papers w/o peer review (e.g. domestic conference presentations)

Competitions
Awards
Outstanding Reviewer CVPR 2025
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ∙ June 2025
Outstanding Reviewer Award at the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2025.
MIRU 2020 Student Paper Award
Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding ∙ August 2020
Best Student Paper Award at the Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding (MIRU) 2020 for the paper by Hataya R., Zdenek J., Yoshizoe K., Nakayama H., titled “MADAO: データ拡張最適化のためのメタ的アプローチ (English title: Meta Approach to Data Augmentation Optimization)”.
Student Incentive Award 2017
The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) Annual Conference ∙ July 2017
Student Incentive Award at the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) Annual Conference 2017 for the paper titled “Script Identification using Bag-of-Words with Entropy-weighted Patches”
Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship for Research Students
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Government of Japan) ∙ April 2015
I was selected as a recipient of the Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho - MEXT) Scholarship for Research Students from 2015 to 2017 for the duration of my Master’s program at the University of Tokyo. Later, I received a recommendation by the university for an extension of my scholarship for my PhD course until 2020.
Dean’s Award for an Outstanding Bachelor Thesis
Czech Technical University in Prague ∙ June 2014
Dean’s Award for an Outstanding Bachelor Thesis at the Czech Technical University in Prague for the bachelor thesis titled “Mobile Application for Recognition of Japanese Writing System”
Other activities

Teaching assistant

I have worked as a teaching assistant for Data Science course at the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology.

Peer review

I have served as a reviewer for academic conferences such as CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, ICLR, AAAI, SIGGRAPH, and journals such as TIP.

Languages
100%
Czech Native
100%
English Fluent
90%
Japanese Fluent