My Photo

Martin Šurkovský

Researcher & Software Developer

As a passionate software developer, I specialize in creating efficient, scalable, and maintainable applications. I have a diverse range of experience working with various programming languages and technologies, but currently, I am particularly fond of Rust and Python. I'm always eager to explore and learn new technologies, so I'm open to working with any other programming languages as well.

In my professional experience, I have excelled in working collaboratively in teams, and I'm known for being a team player. Additionally, I have a strong foundation in research and problem-solving skills. I pride myself on my ability to dive deeply into a problem and come up with innovative solutions.

In the past few years, I've had the privilege of working in an international team of researchers, where I honed my skills in effective communication, both in written and spoken forms, at a professional level.

On a personal note, I am happily married and have a beautiful six-month-old daughter. While my spare time is limited, I enjoy spending it with my family and prioritize my family's needs above all else.

Timeline

  • Open to a new position :-)

    April 01, 2023

    After finishing my time at IT4Innovations, I'm eager to see what the future holds.

  • Quit a job: Research at IT4Innovations - National Supercomputing Center

    March 31, 2023

    My contract is going to end at the end of March 2023

  • This page 🙃

    February 27, 2023

    I wantent to have a more detailed summary. So I decided to use currently poular ChatGPT to help me with it, especially to design the timeline; therefore, accelarete the process. However, at the end the most time takes the filling of the content :D

    Python / Flask / CSS / ChatGPT

  • Dynamic visiualization of traffic flow

    September 01, 2022 - April 30, 2023

    Sofia and Pavlína are Bachelor students solving this project together. Me and Kateřina are in role of supervisors. The tool takes the result of traffic simulator (Ruth) and produce a video presenting an evolution of traffic flow within a city at particular time period.

    Sofia Michailidu, Kateřina Slaninová, Pavlína Smolková, Martin Šurkovský

  • New version of Caver tool

    October 02, 2021 - March 31, 2023

    Caver is a well established tool for analysing and visualization of tunnels and channels in proteins. The original version is a piece of scientific software developed by people from different field. Neverthless, Caver has a good base of users. We want to transfer the knowledge and apply the computer science approach. The new version shoud be easier to maintain, extend by new functionalities, and with a better user interface. However, the new version is still work in progress.

    Java / Kotlin / C++ / CGAL
    David Bednář, Jakub Beránek, Jan Štourač, Martin Šurovský
    https://caver.cz/

  • Deterministic Traffic Simulator

    June 10, 2021 - March 31, 2023

    Ruth is the final iteration of the deterministic traffic simulator. I am the lead developer of this project. The simulator is capable to simulate the traffic flow within a city. We aim to optimize the entire traffic flow instead of optimizing routing for particular drivers. The project consist of two separte parts. The first is a simulator written in Python and a part written in Rust used for data preprocessing and compute intensive parts. A portion of Rust library has a Python binding so it can be directly used in the simulator. In the latest version we use third party C++ library for alternative routing.

    Python / Rust / C++ / PyO3 / OpenStreetMap
    Jakub Beránek, Radim Cmar, Jan Martinovič, Kateřina Slaninová, Martin Šurkovský
    https://github.com/It4innovations/ruth

  • Researcher at H2020 EVEREST project.

    November 02, 2020 - March 31, 2023

    In the project I am responsible for providing a part of one use case; Deterministic Traffic Simulator.

    https://everest-h2020.eu/

  • viaRODOS

    February 21, 2020 - January 20, 2021

    After ending the project in which the viaRODOS was developed. IT4Innovations decided to sustain the project and operate it. We had a limmeted time when the original operator shut the system down. I was asked to deploy the system at our infrastructure. There was a lot of problems with it and over time other people were involved to succesfully deploy the system. I was mainly resposible for modifications in the original code.

    C# / .NET framework
    Jan Martinovč, Vít Ptošek, Kateřina Slaninová, Daniela Szturcová, Martin Šurkovský, Lukáš Vojáček, David Vojtek
    http://viarodos.cz

  • Ph.D. degree in computer science at VSB - Technical University of Ostrava

    January 21, 2020

    Topic: Extraction of abstract models of communications from message-passing applications. Within my thesis I focused on the issue of program visualization, especially on the visualization of communication in MPI applications. For that purpose, I proposed a new abstract model for communication with natural visualization based on Petri nets; called MP-nets. As a proof of concept, I implemnted Morpheus tool.

    https://bit.ly/surkovsky-phd-thesis

  • Python API for CaverDock

    September 02, 2019 - December 16, 2021

    A Python API for CaverDock has been implemented. CaverDock is a tool for analysis the transport processes in proteins. Via the new API users is able to define a set of analyses that will be performed on input data. The API also provides post-processing capabilities. Therefore, the users get a flexible tool where they can describe an entire pipeline including the post-processing of results.

    Java / Python
    Jakub Beránek, Jiří Damborský, Jan Štourač, Martin Šurkovský, Onřej Vávra
    https://loschmidt.chemi.muni.cz/caverdock/

  • Morpheus

    January 30, 2019 - August 28, 2019

    A proof of concept tool developed as a part of my Ph.D. thesis. In contrast to Kaira this tool represents an opposite process. Morpehus takes as input a code of MPI (Message Passing Interface) application and produce an abstract model of communication. The model is inspired by Kaira's model but on a lower level of abstraction which can be used to further investigate the communication.

    C++ / MPI / LLVM / Python
    https://github.com/It4innovations/morpheus/commits/master

  • Start working as a researcher at IT4Innovations - National Supercomputing Center

    June 01, 2018

    I fully moved to IT4Innovations and start working as a researcher there.

  • Quit a job: Researcher at VSB - Technical University of Ostrava.

    May 31, 2018

    I quit my position at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and moved to IT4Innovations - National Supercomputing Center.

  • Research Assistant at IT4Innovations - National Supercomputing Center.

    October 02, 2017 - May 31, 2018

    During this short period I had a partial contract at IT4Innovations as a research assistant. I joined H2020 Antarex project and helped with optimization of some MPI applications. This work was strongly connected to my Ph.D. thesis.

  • Haydi

    March 01, 2016 - December 04, 2017

    The tool was developed as a part of a a GAČR project. I contributed to this tool rather during the discussions of the team then a developer.

    Python / C++
    Jakub Beránek, Ada Böhm, Martin Šurkovský
    https://github.com/spirali/haydi

  • Front-end components for human resouce planing tool - Roslab

    November 01, 2012 - May 31, 2018

    We have developed a complex hierarchical spreadsheet componet in Javascript canvas. Over time, I became the lead developer of this project.

    Javascript / HTML / CSS
    Marek Běhálek, Ada Böhm, Jan Homola, Onřej Meca, Martin Šurkovský
    http://merica.cz/cs/products/roslab

  • Start working as a researcher at the VSB - Technical University of Ostrava

    November 01, 2012

    During my Ph.D. study I was employed at the faculty as a researcher. I was mainly involved in student grant projects and national projects: GAČR and TAČR. In addtion to project work, I also taught courses in introduction to programming, theoretical computer science, and Petri nets.

  • Start studing at the VSB - Technical University of Ostrava

    October 01, 2012

    PhD programme in Computer Science. Advisor: Petr Jančar

  • Master's degree in computer science at VSB - Technical University of Ostrava

    June 07, 2012

    Topic: Image Preprocessing for Larga Scale Data Collections. As a part of my diploma thesis I developed a visual programming tool based on stream processing, called Despr. It is an easily extensible tool allowing users to specify complex algorithms in the form of interconnected basic blocks. The tool was mainly used in the field of image processing.

    Java
    https://github.com/msurkovsky/despr

  • Kaira

    October 03, 2011 - October 12, 2016

    During my last year of Mater's study I joined to project Kaira. The main author of the project is Ada Böhm. The ideas from this project later led to her Ph.D. thesis. I was mainly repsonsible for performance analysis part and this work strongly influenced my Ph.D. thesis as well.

    Python / C++ / Matplotlib
    Ada Böhm, Ondřej Meca, Martin Šurkovský
    https://github.com/spirali/kaira

  • Start studing at the VSB - Technical University of Ostrava

    October 01, 2009

    Master's programme in Computer Science.

  • Website for firefighters museum of Ostrava

    July 01, 2009 - September 30, 2009

    Another summer project for Fire Rescue Service. That year I've created a website for the firefighters museum of Ostrava. The page has a basic content administration for publishing news. Nowadays the musem uses a different version.

    PHP / HTML / CSS / MySQL

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science at VSB - Technical University of Ostrava

    June 08, 2009

    Topic: Practical soulition for comparison of coin images independent on rotation. The results were also published in scientific article. It was my first article at the international conference.

    Java

  • Contact database with web interface

    July 01, 2008 - September 30, 2008

    The second summer during my university studies I returned back to Fire Rescue Service and developed a concat databese with a web interface. The application is still in use :-)

    PHP / Javascript / Ajax / MySQL

  • Start studing at the VSB - Technical University of Ostrava

    October 02, 2006

    Bachelor's programme in Computer Science.

  • Finished high school

    June 28, 2006

    Maturita, Passsed with distinction

  • Internship at Fire Rescue Service

    September 01, 2005 - March 31, 2006

    As a part of my profecional practice I was working at IT department of Fire Rescue Serivce of the Moravian-Silesian Region.

  • Internship at Fire Rescue Service

    September 01, 2004 - June 30, 2005

    As a part of my profecional practice I was working at IT department of Fire Rescue Serivce of the Moravian-Silesian Region.

  • Start studing at high school

    September 02, 2002

    Electrical Engineering

This page was created by me with a little help of ChatGPT :)

[email protected]