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Milan Studený

RNDr. Milan Studený, DrSc.

Position: senior research fellow
Department of Decision-Making Theory
Email: studeny@utia.cas.cz
Phone: 266052304
Web: https://staff.utia.cas.cz/studeny/
Research interests: Probabilistic conditional independence structures, conditional independence in context uncertainty calculi in AI, graphical statistical models (Bayesian networks, chain graphs), methods of polyhedral geometry in coalitional game theory, information-theoretical inequalities for entropic function (study of the entropic region), algebraic statistics.
Publications: view publications

Education

  • (1976 - 1981) graduate diploma, Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Prague.
    Thesis topic: The differentiation of measures in metric spaces. (in Czech, under guidance of David Preiss).
  • (1982 - 1983) stay at university, Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Prague. Research in real analysis under guidance of David Preiss.
  • (1983 - 1986) doctoral studies (for CSc. degree), specialization: theoretical cybernetics. Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Prague. Thesis topic: The notion of multiinformation in probabilistic decision making (in Czech, under guidance of Albert Perez).
  • (2001) DrSc. degree, specialization: mathematical informatics and theoretical cybernetics.
    Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Thesis topic: On mathematical description of probabilistic conditional independence structures.

 

Employment

  • (1982 - 1983) stay at Charles University, see above.
  • (1983 - 1986) doctoral studies, see above.
  • (1987 - 1991) research worker, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Information Theory and Automation (ÚTIA), Czechoslovakia.
  • (1996 - 2000) partially, external research worker, University of Economics, Prague, Faculty of Informatics and Statistics, Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • (1991 - present) senior research worker, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, ÚTIA, Department of Decision-Making Theory (MTR), Czech Republic.
  • (2003 - 2004) head of MTR, ÚTIA, Czech Republic.

 

Research projects lead in the role of PI

  • Conditional independence properties in uncertainty processing. Internal grant n. 275105 of Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (1993–1995).
  • (in the role of co-PI) Marginal problem and its applications. Grant n. 201/94/0471 of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (1994–1996).
  • Conditional independence structures: information theoretical approach. Grant n. 201/98/0478 of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (1998).
  • Conditional independence structures: information theoretical approach II. Grant n. 201/01/1482 of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (2001–2003).
  • Conditional independence structures: information theoretical approach III. Grant n. 201/04/0393 of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (2004–2006).
  • Conditional independence structures: graphical and algebraic approaches. Grant n. 201/08/0539 of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (2008–2012).
  • Conditional independence structures: algebraic and geometric methods. Grant n. 13-20012S of the Czech Science Foundation (new name for the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic) (2013–2015).
  • Conditional independence structures: combinatorial and optimization methods. Grant n. 16-12010S of the Czech Science Foundation (2016–2018).
  • Conditional independence structures: methods of polyhedral geometry. Grant n. 19-04579S of the Czech Science Foundation (2019–2021).

 

Educational activities (in cooperation with either Charles University or Czech Technical University in Prague):

  • supervisor of a PhD student Petr Šimeček (2004–2006). Thesis title: Graphical models and conditional independence structures (in Czech). Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics. Defended in September 2007.
  • supervisor of diploma student J. Fontán. Thesis title: Conditional independence structures in directed graphs (in Czech). Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Nuclear Science and Physical Engineering, 1996.
  • supervisor of diploma student M. Volf. Thesis title: Independency models induced by chain graphs. (in Czech). Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Nuclear Science and Physical Engineering, 1998.
  • supervisor of diploma student Š. Štěpánová. Thesis title: Equivalence of chain graphs (in Czech). Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Prague 2003.
  • supervisor of diploma student E. Beljayeva. Thesis title: Annotated graphs and Bayesian networks. Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Prague 2015.
  • supervisor of a bachelor student J. Zouhar. Thesis title: Recursive linear models and conditional independence structures (in Czech). Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Prague 2010.
  • lecturing an optional one-term course "Conditional Independence Structures" for MSc students. Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Prague (since 2003 until now, sometimes in English)
  • supervising "Seminar on Probability for PhD students I." Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Prague (autumn 2012, autumn 2016)
  • mentor of a PhD student Vera Djordjilovič from Padua University, Italy during her stay at Institute of Information Theory and Automation (August–December 2013, October 2014)
  • external examiner of PhD thesis (K. Sadeghi), Oxford University, UK (January 2012)

  • reviewer of PhD thesis (T. Boege), Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany (April 2022)

     

ORCID link 

 

More details on publications and organizational activities can be found on the personal web (see the link above).