Martin Saska

Martin Saska received his MSc. degree at the Czech Technical University in Prague, 2005, and his Ph.D. degree at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany, within the PhD program of the Elite Network of Bavaria, 2009. Since 2009 he has been a research fellow at the Czech Technical University in Prague, where he founded and heads the Multi-robot Systems group (http://mrs.felk.cvut.cz/), consisting of 30+ young researchers, and co-founded the Center for Robotics and Autonomous Systems with 50+ researchers cooperating in robotics. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, in 2008, and at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, in 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018, where he worked with Vijay Kumar’s group within the GRASP lab. His team won a multi-UAV challenge in MBZIRC 2017 competition, and his group was part of a team that achieved the 1st place in DARPA SubT 2019 challenge among self-funded teams. He is an author or co-author of more than 100 papers in proceedings of peer-reviewed conferences and more than 20 articles in major journals, including IJRR, AURO, RAL, RAS, ASC or EJC, with more than 2500 citations indexed by Google Scholar (H-index 30).