RNDr. Vaclav Petricek Ph.D. Researcher @ eHarmony.com Email: petricek <at> acm.org Y!M: vaclavpetricek Skype: vaclavpetricek Mobile: +44 7950 620 405 LinkedIn: petricek
Past	Intern @ Yahoo! Research Burbank, California Research Fellow @ CS University College London Curriculum vitae
Research interests	Recommender systems, Social Networks, Machine Learning
Publications CiteSeer DBLP	Martin Boeg, Ingemar Cox, Steffen Huck, Vaclav Petricek, "Fundraising and Gender", working paper Tilman Borgers, Ingemar Cox, Martin Pesendorfer, Vaclav Petricek, "Equilibrium Bids in Sponsored Search Auctions: Theory and Evidence", in review [BibTeX] Shi Zhou, Ingemar J. Cox, Vaclav Petricek "Characterising Web Site Link Structure", in Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Symposium on Web Site Evolution (WSE 2007) [pdf][BibTeX] Lukas Brozovsky, Vaclav Petricek, "Recommender System for Online Dating Service", in Proceedings of the 6th Conference Znalosti (Znalosti 2007) [pdf][BibTeX][data] Tobias Escher, Helen Margetts, Vaclav Petricek, Ingemar J. Cox, "Governing from the Centre? Comparing the Nodality of Digital Governments", at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA 2006) [pdf][BibTeX] Vaclav Petricek, Tobias Escher, Ingemar J. Cox, Helen Margetts, "The Web Structure of E-Government - Developing a Methodology for Quantitative Evaluation", in Proceedings of the 15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2006) [pdf][BibTeX] Vaclav Petricek, Ingemar J. Cox, Hui Han, Isaac G. Councill, C. Lee Giles, "A Comparison of On-line Computer Science Citation Databases", in Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2005), 2005. [pdf][BibTeX][ppt] Vaclav Petricek, Ingemar J. Cox, Hui Han, Isaac G. Councill, C. Lee Giles, "Modeling the Author Bias Between Two On-line Computer Science Citation Databases", in Proceedings of the 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2005), 2005. (Poster) [pdf][BibTeX][poster] Vladimir Kotal, Vaclav Petricek, Jakub Yaghob, "NetScreen 5XT na tapete", in Network Computing magazine, 11/2003 [pdf] (czech only) Vaclav Petricek, "An overview of audio fingerprinting systems", presened at 20th Workshop on Information Technologies (MIS2003), 2003 Vaclav Petricek, "Information Hiding and Covert Channels" in Proceedings of 14th Annual Student Conference Week of Doctoral Students (WDS2001), 2001, Prague [pdf][BibTeX][src][ppt]
Theses	Vaclav Petricek, "Quantitative analysis of networked environments to improve performance of systems", Doctoral Thesis, 2007 [pdf][slides][BibTeX] Vaclav Petricek, "Virtual private networks", Master Thesis, 2000 [pdf][BibTeX][src] (czech only)
Notes	Income versus social connectivity (degree) Short introduction to genetic algorithms (czech)
Datasets	Collaborative filtering dataset - data from online dating agency
Projects	WiBSD: Small FreeBSD distribution . Eternity service implementation - highly robust p2p network with privacy. [slides] [home] [doc] [BibTeX] SFS - Secure File System - implementation of crypto filesystem (czech)
Teaching	Master thesis: Lukas Brozovsky: Recommender system for online dating service [iso] Master thesis: Zdenek Siblik: Squeeze - compressing proxy for slow connections Group software project: Load balancer - software load balancer [defended] Group software project: TIN Circulation - online library service [defended]
Collaborators	Martin Boeg Tilman Borgers Isaac G. Councill Ingemar J. Cox Tobias Escher C. Lee Giles Hui Han Steffen Huck Jaroslav Pokorny Jakub Yaghob Vladimir Kotal
Awards and funding	CMI and CRN Dagmar and Vaclav Havel Foundation Vize97 Bernard Bolzano Foundation Mobility Fund of Charles University
Volleyball	2006 Cambridge Summer Volleyball Tournament 2005-2006 Cambridge Volleyball Club 2004-2005 London Docklands 2003-2004 Cambridge Volleyball Club 2003-2004 Ipswich Volleyball Club 199X-2003 VSSK MFF Techniserv Prague

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