The Department of Information Technologies has a new professor – Vladimír Bureš
Author: Zuzana Dostálová
On Thursday, 2 July 2020, Vladimír Bureš accepted a letter of appointment signed by the President of the Czech Republic on 17 June. He passed his professor appointment procedure at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague in the field of systems engineering with flying colours. Together with Mr Bureš, a further 62 men and 18 women were appointed professors.
Professor Bureš has been teaching at the Faculty of Informatics and Management since 2003. As a second-year postgraduate student of systems engineering and informatics, he was accepted at the Department of Economics and Management as assistant lecturer. Just one year later, his supervisor, Professor Mikulecký, offered Vladimír Bureš the opportunity to teach a course on the theory of systems. “I was not exactly sure what the subject entailed. But I took up the challenge and did my best. I teach the subject to this very day, but the contents of the course have changed radically over time. We have moved from general descriptions and flowcharts to systems dynamics modelling and the basics of system engineering,” Vladimír Bureš recollects his early days at the Faculty, where he currently acts as the Head of the Department of Information Technologies. He defended his habilitation thesis titled Multidisciplinarity of Knowledge Management from the Perspective of Systems Engineering in 2009 in the field of systems engineering and informatics at FIM UHK. He subsequently graduated from the MBA distance study programme in the field of global management.
In addition to being a guarantor and a teacher of several undergraduate and postgraduate courses, Vladimír Bureš also currently supervises two research projects. “The first one is endowed with a slightly more prestige, as it involves national support for the COST project (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) implemented within the European Inter-Excellence scheme. In the project, we research consolidation options for various research methods and directions of research toward a better understanding of the phenomenon of tsunami. The second one is more of a pet project of mine. It is organised under the Ministry of Industry and Trade, within the Operational Programme Enterprise and Innovation for Competitiveness, titled “Research and Development of a New SW Solution – Intelligent Robotic Management of RPA Documents,” which aims to incorporate intelligent functionalities in the existing DMS systems,” Professor Bureš explains.
The “fresh” professor also likes to mention tongue-in-cheek that he contributed to projects organised by two Nobel laureates, such as the International Agency for Atomic Energy in Vienna, for which he helped create a methodology for the evaluation of knowledge-based and technical projects. The IAEA is the holder of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Peace.
“Ever since 2003, my accomplishments have been highly driven by the people whom I had the good fortune to work with. I am ever so grateful for being so lucky to have been accompanied on my journey by Peter Mikulecký and Pavel Čech from the very onset. Most recently, I have also received great support from Professor Hynek and Professor Slabý. And the number of my colleagues who have helped me in the time span between those two points is too large to list in the space we have. I hope they will forgive me if I thank them anonymously,” Professor Bureš concludes.
When he is not teaching or conducting research, he likes to watch and re-watch various TV series, like The Bing Bang Theory and Futurama. He also likes Hong Kong action movies, as well as WWII and natural science documentaries. He likes jogging, family trips and the occasional dance lesson for adult beginners.
