Michal Pěchouček

Michal Pěchouček is the 97th rector of the Czech Technical University in Prague and a recognised expert in AI, focusing on multiagent systems. He gained academic experience at, among other institutions, the University of Edinburgh, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Southern California. In 2000, he founded the CTU AI Center. He served as CTO at Avast and Gen Digital, led AI research at CISCO Systems, and was a partner at Evolution Equity Partners. He co-founded several startups, including Cognitive Security (acq. CISCO) and Blindspot AI (acq. Adastra Group).