cv

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Basics

Name Filip Kučera
Label PhD Student @ JMU Würzburg
Email f.kucera _at_ media-bias-research.org
Url https://media-bias-research.org/
Summary Highly self-motivated, curiosity-driven student with a strong passion for understanding machine learning models inside-out; focused on bias detection and mitigation in vision-language models using mechanistic interpretability.

Work

  • 2025.06 - Present
    PhD Student
    Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
    Bias Detection and Mitigation in Vision-Language Models using methods of mechanistic interpretability; collaborating with the Media Bias Research Group (MBG) and invited as guest researcher at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo (from August 2025), supported by a DAAD IFI scholarship for a 1-year stay.
    • Mechanistic interpretability for uncovering and mitigating bias in multi-modal models
    • Collaboration with MBG; guest researcher at NII Tokyo
  • 2023 - 2024
    External Teacher (Computer Architectures – B0B35APO)
    Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU), FEE
    Taught lab sections for Computer Architectures.
  • 2022 - 2023
    External Teacher
    Gymnázium Nad Kavalírkou (Grammar School)
    Led non-compulsory robotics class (Raspberry Pi & electronics, LEGO robotics and LEGO competition prep, Java & Processing).
  • 2022 - 2025
    Lecturer
    National Library of Technology (Prague)
    Co-created and lectured robotics workshops for high-school groups and companies (Robotis Premium robots).
  • 2022 - 2025
    Research Fellow
    Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU), Center for Machine Perception (CMP) – Visual Recognition Lab
    Research Fellow in VR lab headed by Prof. Jiří Matas.
  • 2021 - 2022
    Undergraduate Research Fellow
    CTU – Computational Robotics Lab (COMROB)
    Developed FPGA DSP for real-time LiDAR data processing and odometry from point clouds (Bachelor thesis).
  • 2018 - 2019
    Software Content Engineer (Internship)
    Autodesk (Děčín, CZ)
    C++ work in Inventor Content Center team: bug fixes and ribbon prototypes using Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) library.

Volunteer

  • 2019 - 2025

    Prague, Czech Republic

    Systems Administrator; later Head of Sysadmin Division
    Sincoolka Dormitory Clubs (CTU)
    Network and systems administration (Juniper switches, Ruckus routers, Linux, networks, PHP & PostgreSQL, AP installation/placement, 3D printing access, PR, events).

Education

  • 2022 - 2025

    Prague, Czech Republic

    Minor (extracurricular)
    prg.ai Minor
    AI/ML cross-university program
  • 2022 - 2025

    Prague, Czech Republic

    Master
    Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU), Faculty of Electrical Engineering
    Open Informatics – Computer Engineering
  • 2019 - 2022

    Prague, Czech Republic

    Bachelor
    Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU), Faculty of Electrical Engineering
    Open Informatics – Computer Science (ELMG)

Awards

Publications

Skills

Machine Learning
Mechanistic Interpretability
Bias Detection & Mitigation
Deep Learning
Programming
C++
Python
GPGPU
Parallel & Distributed Computing
FPGA / Digital Design
Linux
Systems Administration
Networking

Languages

Czech
★★★★★
English
★★★★☆
Japanese
★☆☆☆☆

Projects