HANÁK, J. Modelování chování pro výcvik taktických pilotů [online]. Brno: Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta informačních technologií. 2025.
Mr. Jiří Hanák began his doctoral studies under my supervision in October 2021. He excelled in all prescribed examinations in 2022 and 2023. Throughout his doctoral studies, he was actively involved in teaching the undergraduate courses Signals and Systems (2021, 2022, 2023) and Machine Level Programming (2021). In addition, Mr. Hanák assessed three theses. Overall, Jiří Hanák completed 542 credit hours of teaching, thus fulfilling the teaching obligation for the doctoral program. Mr. Jiří Hanák has been a credible member of the AeroWorks research team at the Faculty of Information Technology of the Brno University of Technology since 2019, when he joined the team as a master’s student. As a doctoral candidate, Jiří Hanák has made substantial contributions to several research projects listed below, supporting their timely and successful completion: TREVAL - Flight Training Evaluation Software (TH04010325, 2019-2021), Framework of key enabling technologies for safe and autonomous drones' applications (ECSEL Joint Undertaking 8A19003, 826610, 2019-2023), Tactical cognitive agent (TAČR TN01000029/16, 2021-2022), Laser sensor for autonomous driving of trucks (TAČR CK02000106, 2021-2023), Nanoradar for autonomous driving of trucks and its industrialization 4.0 (TAČR FW03010614, 2021-2023), Advanced compression and noise reduction for hyperspectral images data (ESA 3-17659/22/NL/GLC/mkn, 2022-2024). Mr. Hanák completed his dissertation in English, focusing on the synthesis of authentic tactical pilot behavior applicable to synthetic training platforms. He conducted independent research and continuously presented credible results at major international conferences, notably at the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences in 2022 and 2024, and at the AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics System Conference in 2023 and 2024, where two of his publications were recognized with a Best of Session Award. During his research stay at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology from May 2023 to July 2023, Mr. Hanák co-authored a journal paper for the AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems. Mr. Jiří Hanák also co-authored three software applications relevant to his dissertation: the "Cognition augmented tactical behavior" model for authentic synthetic pilot training, the "Speech parameter extractor for pilot state and capabilities assessment" and the "Sensor Fusion Toolbox" aimed at optimal state estimation techniques. In addition to recognition for his contribution in the field of authentic pilot behavior modeling, Jiří Hanák's research related to state estimation algorithms in sensor systems developed under joint projects with Valeo and applicable to future autonomous vehicles, gained him well deserved national and international attention. I am delighted to say that the dissertation submitted by Mr. Hanák is of an exceptional quality and meets the all requirements for a dissertation. I recommend the dissertation for defense.
The submitted thesis constitutes substantial research on a challenging and contemporary topic with significant potential for application. Utilizing a broad set of state-of-the-art methods, Ing. Hanák created a wide array of clearly definable original contributions beyond the current state of science and technology in tactical pilot training. His work has been, on the one hand, implemented in a functional manner demonstrating real-life applicability and, on the other hand, disseminated to the scientific community in a significant number of Scopus-listed publications, with two of them being recognized with awards on one of the most acknowledged international conferences in the domain of digital avionics. Thus, the candidate has impressively demonstrated his ability to carry out independent activities in his area of research and development, producing original and published results as mandated by Sec. 47 (4) of the Act. No. 111/1998 Coll. Therefore, with emphasis, I recommend accepting his thesis and continuing the defense process, which will lead to awarding the aspired academic degree.
To summarize, it can be said that the submitted thesis represents an outstanding piece of scientific work. The doctoral project is characterized by an ambitious objective, which was pursued with a scientific approach and in which new scientific contributions were made. Jiri Hanak demonstrated his ability to work on high scientific level and therefore, the statement can be made without reservation that the thesis and the student's achievements until now meet the generally accepted requirements for the award of an academic degree (in accordance with Section 47 of Act No. 111/1998 Coll., on higher education institution). I recommend to accept the thesis and to proceed with its defence.
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