Martin Gurtner is a doctoral student supervised by Zdeněk Hurák. He started his doctoral studies in the fall 2016. His research focus is on real-time optimization for control. In this regard, he has been building on top of his master's research in the domain of micromanipulation by shaping electric or magnetic fields through arrays of microelectrodes or coils, respectively, which he has conducted in the same group.

Dr. Didier Henrion (*1971) is a part-time researcher in aa4cc group. His main affiliation is with the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), namely LAAS CNRS in Toulouse, France. He received a PhD degree from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in 1998 and a PhD degree from INSA Toulouse in 1999, both in the area of systems control theory. In 2004, he was awarded the bronze medal, the highest distinction from CNRS for young researchers. His main research topics are numerical algorithms for polynomial matrices and convex optimization over linear matrix inequalities with applications to linear systems and robust control. He has published about 60 papers and/or chapters in international journals or books, and about 100 international conference papers. He has been an Associate Editor of Automatica (from 2002 to 2009), the European Journal of Control (from 2005 to 2008), IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (from 2005 to 2008), the Slovak Journal of Electrical Engineering (since 2004) and the Czech journal Kybernetika (since 2008). From 1999 to 2004, he was an Associate Editor on the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He has chaired the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer-Aided Control System Design (since 2004) and vice-chaired the IFAC Technical Committee on Control Design (from 2003 to 2008), and he has been a member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Robust Control (since 2003). He was involved in the organization of the 2006 IFAC ROCOND symposium.

He keeps joining the group twice every year for one or two months. Within his part-time affiliation with aa4cc he gives an advanced graduate course on linear matrix inequalities and semidefinite programming with applications in control systems design and analysis. Thanks to Didier's reputation, several foreign visitors are travelling to Prague to attend his course every year.

Štefan Knotek (*1990) is a doctoral student supervised jointly by Michael Šebek and Kristian Hengster-Movric since the autumn 2014. He received the Bc. (B.S.) and Ing. (M.S.) degrees in industrial informatics and robotics from Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, in 2012 and 2014, respectively. His area of interest includes distributed control and multi-agent systems.

Prof. Michael Šebek (*1954) is a full professor and the head of the Department of Control Engineering, to which the aa4cc group belongs. He has spent major part of his research carreer with the Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Academy of Sciences, starting with his CSc (Ph.D.) degree earned in 1981 under supervision of Prof. Vladimír Kučera. In 2004 he was appointed an associate professor and in 2004 a full professor at Czech Technical University in Prague. Since 2000 he has been also managing the multidisciplinary Centre for Applied Cybernetics comprised of several academic and industrial institutions from all around Czech Republic. He also held several visiting positions at the Universita di Padova, Italy in 1985; Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland in 1986; Universiteit Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands in 1990/91; ETH Zurich, Switzerland in 1994/95; as well as a number of short visiting appointments.

His life time research interests are in the domain of polynomial (or algebraic) methods for control design, in which domain he earned an international reputation, having published more then 100 papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings, with more then 500 citations registered by WoS, with the h-index evaluated to 12. Editorial work is an important part of Michael's professional life. For many years, he worked for the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board on preparation of the prestigious CDC and ACC conferences. He also served as an Associate Editor of the European Journal of Control.

Michael Sebek co-founded PolyX Ltd, Prague, the company producing Polynomial Toolbox for Matlab - a software for systems, signals and control based on polynomial methods. He is a Senior Member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.). He was a founding member of the Czechoslovakia IEEE Section and is currently a member of the Section Executive Committee. He founded and for many years chaired the Czech IEEE Control Systems Society Chapter. He currently works in the Executive Committee of Central European Chapter of the IEEE Engineering Management Society . Within IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) , Michael served as a Policy Committee member and, most recently, the as the Vice-Chair. He has also been working in the IFAC Technical Committee on Robust Control. He was the General Chair of the successful 16th IFAC World Congress in Prague in 2005 which was the largest Automatic Control Conference ever. He was the General Chair of the IEEE CACSD Conference in Taiwan in 2004 and organized many other smaller conferences. Michael is a member of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and a member of the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS). Currently, he is a member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and represents the Czech Republic in the European Union Control Association (EUCA) a member of its Administrative Council.