Zdeněk Hurák
Associate Professor
Prague, Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolZdeněk Hurák is an associate professor of technical cybernetics at Czech Technical University in Prague with over 20 years of academic and research experience and a decade of senior-level roles. He develops advanced algorithms for optimal, robust and distributed control and applies them to real-world systems, supervising graduate research and managing funded projects. His international experience includes Fulbright-sponsored research at UC Santa Barbara and visiting positions in the Netherlands and the US, reflecting strong collaboration with leading control labs. Trained as an aerospace electrical engineer with a PhD in control systems and robotics, he combines rigorous theoretical work on dynamical systems and polynomial computational techniques with hands-on implementation. Notably, his career blends deep control theory with practical deployment—bringing robust/optimal control methods from classroom and paper into operating systems.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Control systems, robotics, cybernetics, Ph.D., Control systems, robotics, cybernetics at Czech Technical University in PragueMilitary High School in OpavaIng. (eq. to Dipl.Ing. or MSc.), Aerospace electrical engineering, Ing. (eq. to Dipl.Ing. or MSc.), Aerospace electrical engineering at Military Academy in Brno
English, French, German, Russian, Czech
Github Skills (200)
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trello10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
hurak/orr
Feb 2024 - Apr 2025
Optimal and Robust Control – a graduate course B(E)3M35ORR at CTU in Prague, Czechia
Contributions:3 reviews, 10 PRs, 158 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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hurak/hys
May 2024 - Feb 2025
Hybrid systems – (source files for the) lecture notes for a graduate course B(E)3M35HYS at CTU in Prague, Czechia
Contributions:3 reviews, 1 PR, 104 pushes in 8 months
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