Václav Sobotka

Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics

Bachelor’s degree (Bc.), specialization Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing

Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics

Master’s degree (Mgr.), specialization Machine learning and artificial intelligence

• With honors

CloseIT

Full-stack software developer (part-time)

• Software systems for banking industry

Masaryk University

PhD candidate

• Scholarship funding from industrial partner Wereldo

Masaryk University

Teaching assistant (part-time)

• Preparation of homework assignments and course materials

• Occasional substitute lecturing

Technical University Vienna

Research intern

• 5-month research stay in the Database and Artificial Intelligence Group of Prof. Nysret Musliu

• Research on hyperheuristic methodologies and real-world logistical problems

Industrial cooperation with company Wereldo

Research on complex vehicle routing problems

• Main PhD research area

• Consulting and advising Master's theses

Industrial cooperation with company Notino

Research on complex warehouse planning

• Consulting Master's theses

V. Sassmann, H. Rudová, M. Gabonnay, and V. Sobotka. Real-world vehicle routing using adaptive large neighborhood search. In Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, pages 34–49. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023.

V. Sobotka. Uncertainty and dynamicity in real-world vehicle routing (student abstract). In Proceedings of Sixteenth International Symposium on Combinatorial Search, pages 202–203. AAAI Press, Washington, DC, USA, 2023.

V. Sobotka and H. Rudová. Real-world pickup and delivery problem with transfers. In Proceedings of Sixteenth International Symposium on Combinatorial Search, pages 83–91. AAAI Press, Washington, DC, USA, 2023.

Samuel Krivánek, Hana Rudová and Václav Sobotka. Multi-Floor Warehouse Planning. In the Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (KEPS 2024), 4 pages. Banff, Alberta, Canada, 2024.

V. Sobotka. Real-World Vehicle Routing: from plan to its execution. In Doctoral Consortium of European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2 pages 2024. 

V. Sobotka and H. Rudová. Uncertainty in real-world vehicle routing. In Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, pages 4311-4318. IOS Press, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2024.

• Dean’s Award for outstanding study results (2022)

• Dean’s Award for outstanding diploma thesis (2022)

• Certificate of Achievement for outstanding research performance (2023)

• Grant for short-term stays of the AKTION Austria-Czech Republic (2024)

• Certificate of Achievement for outstanding research performance (2024)

• Czech (Native)

• English (C1 level)

• Spanish (A2 level)

• German (A1 level)