Petr Holub

BBMRI-ERIC’s IT & Data Protection Manager, Associate Professor at Masaryk University (CZ) 

Dr. Holub is Associate Professor of computer science at Masaryk University and Chief IT Officer (CIO) in BBMRI-ERIC, European Research Infrastructure Consortium for Biobanking and BioMolecular Resources, facilitating sharing of biobanking resources and health data for medical research. His background is both in computational sciences and computer science. Since setup of BBMRI-ERIC, he has lead design and implementation of the portfolio of its IT services. He is co-founder and co-lead of RationAI research group, focusing on rational and conservative application of explainable artificial intelligence to biomedical challenges.  He was head of the Department of Communication Technologies at Institute of Computers Science, Masaryk University, as well as architect of advanced multimedia and collaborative systems of the Czech national e-infrastructure at CESNET. His research in computer networks and multimedia processing and in bioinformatics and applied artificial intelligence has lead to more than 80 research papers in established computer science, bioinformatics and medical informatics journals (including Nature Communications and Nature Review Genetics) and ranked conferences, and co-inventor of 2 patents. He has 585 citations in WoS (H-index 15) and 1,800 citations in Google Scholar (H-index 22). He has received Best Open-Source Software Award by ACM Multimedia SIG. He is a co-founder of Comprimato company, which commercializes research results in acceleration of compression algorithms.