Karel Zimmermann (KZ) is the main lecturer and associate professor at the Czech Technical University in Prague. He worked as postdoctoral researcher with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (2008-2009) in the group of prof Luc van Gool. His current H-index is 13 (google-scholar) and he serves as a reviewer for major journals such as TPAMI or IJCV and conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, IROS. He received the best lecturer award in 2018, the best reviewer award at CVPR 2011 and the best PhD work award in 2008. His journal paper has been selected among 14 best research works representing Czech Technical University in the government evaluation process (RIV). Since 2010 he has been chair of Antonin Svoboda Award (http://svobodovacena.cz). He was also with the Technological Education Institute of Crete (2001), with the Technical University of Delft (2002), with the University of Surrey (2006). His current research interests include learnable methods for robotics.

Vojta Vonásek (VV) is the second lecturer and PostDoc researcher at the Department of Cybernetics. He spent one year at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) at the institut IAR/IPR. He was a post-doc researcher at the Institut für Werkzeugmaschinen und Fabrikbetrieb, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany within German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) post-doc programme in 2017. He serves as the reviewer for robotic journals (Autonomous Robots, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, International Journal of Automation and Computing, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, ..) and many conferences. His research interests include path and motion planning, automatic learning of locomotion gaits of modular robots and application of motion planning techniques in computational biochemistry.

Václav Hlaváč (VH) is professor of engineering cybernetics; deputy director of CIIRC; head of the Robotics and Machine Perception department at CIIRC; head of the informal group called Center Machine Perception, est. 1996, spanning Faculty of Electrical Engineering and CIIRC since 2013, both CTU. H-index WoS 15; H-index Scopus 21, H-index Google Scholar 36; His research interest includes computer vision, reconstruction of 3D scenes from 2D images, analysis of video sequences, pattern recognition with emphasis to relation between statistical and structural methods, autonomous robotics, robotic manipulation with soft materials, industrial and other applications of the above.