Our Mission
Our mission is to provide intelligent tools that help people understand the problems they are dealing with and make their decisions faster and more precisely. It is our firm belief that the solutions we provide should contribute to an improvement in the world in which we live.
We are an interdisciplinary team mostly from Mendel University in Brno focused primarily on the analysis of people’s behavior. Our projects are diverse. We design user interfaces, develop mobile and web applications as well as digital assistants, location-based services, augmented and virtual reality applications; we analyze and visualize environmental changes and their impact on society.
We guarantee a wide range of courses and even whole programs. We will gladly meet with you if you are interested in joined research or just looking for a challenging final thesis.
Our Research
We live in turbulent times. These are challenges that can bring us a huge leap forward if we grab them.
Contracted R&D
For companies, we offer consultations on the user interface design and the development of tailored, innovative applications and services.
Teaching
We teach a wide range of subjects from the basics of programming to virtual reality. Are you interested in doing a final thesis or collaboration on projects?
Coworking Space
Spatial Hub is not just a team, it is also a laboratory or rather a co-working space you can use. Are you curious how it looks? Wanna know the history?
Our Team
We cover a large amount of areas, just look at us… ?
Dr. David Procházka
David is a head of the team. He focuses on user behavior analysis. He deals with the redesign of complex applications and the design of new solutions. He focuses on innovative applications such as location-based services, metaverse, virtual assistants or virtual and augmented reality. He likes to connect spatial analytics with UX and mobile technology. As part of contractual research, he has created many mobile, web and desktop applications.
Dr. Robert Stojanov
Robert focuses on the impacts of environmental change, including climate change on development, population migration, and population dynamics. He is a specialist in formulating research topics, theoretical and methodological approaches, as well as fieldwork and the interpretation of socio-economic data analyzes.
Dr. Ivo Pisařovic
Ivo is our head of web development. He has been in love with web technologies since his primary school. His PhD was focused on natural language processing for document information retrieval. Currently, he works also on metaverse project.
Dr. Jaromír Landa
Jaromír is the deputy head of the team. He focuses on everything around geographic information technologies: mapping, spatial analytics, and mobile app development for Android. He is leading the Smart University projects as well as developing a mobile application for Brno-North. He leads the study specialization focused on GIS and mobile technology for the bachelor’s degree.
Dr. Jana Procházková
Jana works primarily at the Brno University of Technology. She cooperates on many tasks from the area of image processing, 3D scanning, rapid prototyping, and GIS.
Dr. František Dařena
František’s research lies in the areas of data mining, machine learning, and natural language processing. He helps the team especially with algorithms for understanding unstructured text data.
Andrej Gono
Andrej is our web developer. His task is to deliver data into our applications. In his bachelor thesis, he focuses on gamification of My MENDELU. He is current head of My MENDELU project and serves as co-CEO in his startup City Mind!
Tomáš Koubek
Tom focuses on testing and designing user interfaces. He also takes care of complex technological infrastructures that are necessary for the projects. Among other things, he deals with automation systems for operating, monitoring and controlling hardware.
Junior Researchers and Developers
We are proud to have many talented students in our team. You can join them, if you are brave enough 😉
Nicolas Nguyen
Nicolas is an Android and Unreal Engine developer. He works on My MENDELU project where he pushes the app forward on Android platform. In metaverse project, he focuses on VR in Unreal Engine client for visualization of spatial data.
Eliška Chylíková
Eliška is our web developer. She helps primarily with My MENDELU project, but also works on Metaverse projects where she creates a service which helps the users easily prepare projects with spatial data for VR.
Daniil Astapenko
Daniil is our web developer. He works on the development of AR applications and enhances our Spatial Design System - a library for rapid prototyping of AR solutions.
Our Alumni
We worked with many bright and inspirational people.
Dominik Kadlček
Dominik was our web developer. He focuses on augmented reality web applications that can be used on different platforms. As a part of his bachelor thesis, he developed own AR glasses for fast web development.
Mikuláš Muroň
Mikuláš focuses on geographic information systems and their application into everyday applications, both from the technological and decision making point-of-view. He has experience with Android development and web applications. He is a GNU/Linux and open-source fan. He also works in the area of NLP and machine learning.
Dr. Pavel Kostelník
Pavel is a senior Java developer at On Semiconductor. At MENDELU, he worked on a Ph.D. thesis focused on natural language processing. The tried to create a more natural interface to Business Intelligence applications.
Matúš Selecký
Matúš was our senior iOS developer. He's product owner in the My MENDELU project where he took care about technologies and architecture of the iOS platform.
Tomáš Šmerda
Tomáš was our iOS developer. In his bachelor thesis, he created an iOS application focused on on-boarding of new employees based on gamification. Then he worked on metaverse project: collaboration in AR.
Dr. Vít Janiš
Vít was our project manager. He overlooked all the operative tasks of the team. His duty was to ensure that all people know what to do, take care of their well-being, negotiate working conditions and guard the promised deadlines.
Patrik Zámečník
Patrik was our web backend developer. His technology of choice was Java Enterprise. He kept our backend on My MENDELU project up-to-date.
Jan Peřinka
Honza was our web developer. His bachelor thesis was focused on sensors and creating monitoring system for laboratories. He worked on web application for connecting and using IoT devices in our Metaverse project and spatial data presentation in HoloLens.
Jan Strnad
Jan worked both on My MENDELU and Metaverse project. In My MENDELU project, he was product owner for the Android platform. In Metaverse, he worked on new methods of computer vision for augmented reality services.
Miriam Zedníčková
Miri was our web developer. She worked on strategic game for managers, My MENDELU project and also works on NLP in metaverse.
Alisher Turganaliyev
Alisher worked with us on Smart Migration project. He developed a unique administration system that can fill our mobile application and train our RASA based chatbot at the same time.
Lenka Bistáková
Lenka was our web frontend developer. Her specialisation was mapping services. She was developing a web geographic information system for managing indoor and outdoor maps of the university.
Petra Javorková
Petra is our user interface designer. She helps us to polish the user experience of our apps. She designed e.g. brand new version of the My MENDELU application and works also on contracted research. She developed an award winning app for smart cooking as her bachelor thesis.
Filip Hlaváč
Filip is our web developer. He works on a project of Smart Corridor Panels. These displays will present relevant information at the right place and time. E.g. they will help people with navigation around the campus, present information about submitting final theses etc.
Róbert Oravec
Robert was our lead iOS developer. He has large experience from different companies. Robert helped us to understand new technologies and improved our development skills on iOS. He moved the My MENDELU iOS app to the new level.
Danny Aboud
Danny was our web frontend developer. He was a big fan of Javascript and web technologies. He worked on a web service for managing data of the whole My MENDELU project.
Ondřej Ivan
Ondřej was our My MENDELU Android developer. In his bachelor thesis, he created a mobile application for property registration at the Department of Informatics. This application is intended to streamline the property records at the department.
Martin Sítek
Martin works with us on My MENDELU project as a web developer. His bachelor thesis is focused on the development of backend and iOS app for onboarding of new students and employees.
Jan Janovec
Jan was developer on Smart Migration iOS app. He redesigned our app from the Android platform to iOS and made whole implementation and testing.
Michal Mitter
Michal is our web developer. He works on My MENDELU and metaverse project. He helps us especially with new indoor map services and VR.
Monika Čanigová
Monika was My MENDELU Android developer. As her final thesis, she created a mobile application for the efficient preparation of students for exams. The aim of the application is to make it easier for students to prepare, whether by planning their work or even taking breaks.
Tomáš Ječmínek
Tomáš was My MENDELU web developer. He is big fan of Kotlin programming language and Vue.js framework. His bachelor theses helped university students to find a tutor.
Diana Brnovik
Diana worked with us for many years on the development of My MENDELU iOS application. She was one of the first iOS developers in our team! She is still focused on the iOS in her professional life.
Karel Zídek
Karel worked on many projects from the area of user experience and visualization. Currently works in Honeywell on advanced visualization solutions for aerospace industry.
Daniel Dvořák
Daniel helped us with the My MENDELU project. His task is to develop a module for time tracking and evaluation of your time management. Thanks to Daniel, you will be a bit more efficient student or teacher.
Filip Procházka
Filip was My MENDELU iOS developer. He has also experience with location-based services, indoor localisation and machine learning. As his bachelor thesis, he created a method for evaluation of the room’s usage.
Ondřej Šabrňák
Ondřej worked on My MENDELU project. He was our junior iOS developer. His bachelor thesis was focused on the development of My MENDELU app for smart watches.
Aleksandr Slukin
Aleksandr developed an iOS application module for My MENDELU project that tried to simplify waiting on study department. You can reserve the appropriate time, you are notified about your place in the queue etc.
Dan Vybíral
Dan was for many years our UX designer and leading iOS developer. He designed the first architecture of the My MENDELU mobile app. Currently is senior iOS developer at Kiwi.
Juraj Kriššák
Juraj worked on My MENDELU and Harvestor projects. In Harvestor project, he designed and implemented web services that helps with smart forest management.
Martin Zejda
Martin focused on user experience design and advanced visualization. He worked on augmented reality projects as well as design of “common” web and mobile applications.
Marek Unčík
Marek was our web developer who worked on the Smart Study Department project. He was optimizing daily processes of the Study Department using smart panels connected to our mobile application My MENDELU.
Petr Tykal
Petr worked with us on My MENDELU project. From the beginning, he was part of the Android development team. Since leaving the team, he worked as an Android developer for several companies.
Our work in a few numbers
We are not just academical researchers. For over a decade, we collaborate with companies to help them improve their product. And most importantly, we are teachers that love to raise new generations of technical leaders!
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Years
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People
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