Talk at Imperial
Delivered a talk titled The Case for Interpretability-Driven Evaluation at the Explainable AI Seminar at Imperial College London.
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2026
Talk at Oxford
Delivered a talk titled The Impact of AI on Online Discourse at Luc Rocher's lab at Oxford University.
Talk at AAEC
Delivered a talk on generative AI's impact on cartoonists at the annual convention of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) in Sacramento, CA.
Talk at Northeastern
Delivered a talk titled The Case for Interpretability-Driven Evaluation at David Bau's lab at Northeastern University.
One paper at ICML
Presented the Uncovering Competency Gaps in Large Language Models and Their Benchmarks paper with Nino Scherrer, Nick Dufour, Thomas Leung, Chris Bregler, and Stephanie Chan.
AI Governance Workshop at CASBS
Took part in the Global Politics, Governance, and Technology: Converging Problems and Possibilities for a Disrupted World workshop at Stanford CASBS organized by Tino Cuéllar and Henry Farrell.
One paper at FAccT
Presented the Unsteady Metrics and Benchmarking Cultures of AI Model Builders paper with Christo Buschek and Stefan Baack.
Talk at NCS
Delivered a talk on generative AI's impact on cartoonists at a virtual meeting of the National Cartoonist Society (NCS).
Princeton/NYU Panel
Took part in a panel at the Holding the Line: Authentication, Verification, and the Fight for Facts in the AI Age event held at the NYU School of Journalism, in partnership with Princeton University.
One paper and workshop organization at CVPR
Presented the DeepSpeak Dataset paper with Sarah Barrington and co-organized the 2nd Workshop on the Authenticity & Provenance in the Age of AI.
One paper at ICLR
Presented the Uncovering Conceptual Blindspots in Generative Image Models Using Sparse Autoencoders paper.
Talk at NYU Tisch
Delivered a talk about AI for animation at NYU Tisch, hosted by Sang-Jin Bae.
Talk at the PA workshop
Delivered a talk and co-led a community session at the Positive Alignment workshop in San Francisco.
Final episode of Shell Game, Season 2
We release the final episode of Shell Game, Season 2 — the podcast I've been working on with Evan Ratliff.
2025
Keynote at the International AI Standards Summit
Delivered a keynote at the International AI Standards Summit in Seoul, Korea, co-organized by ISO, IEC, ITU, and the UN.
Keynote at an ICDM Workshop
Delivered a keynote at the Visionary Innovation in Standards and Technology of GenAI workshop at ICDM 2025, held in Washington, DC.
One paper and track chairing at ACM MM
Presented one paper and chaired a track at the ACM Multimedia 2025 conference held in Dublin, Ireland.
Co-organized an ICCV workshop
Co-organized the 1st Authenticity & Provenance in the Age of AI workshop held at ICCV 2025 in Honolulu, HI.
Keynote at the Inspire & Impact Network Conference
Delivered a keynote at the Inspire & Impact Network Conference in Prague, Czech Republic.
Panel at the Planet AI Conference
Virtually participated in the Planet AI Conference.
Received the Czech Senate Medal
Received the Czech Senate Medal (a civilian honor) from Senate Speaker Milos Vystrcil in Prague.
Best Paper Award at IJCAI-W
Our IJCAI-W paper 'Human Action CLIPs' won the best paper award (conference held in Montreal, Canada).
Panel at the Moonshot Summit
Took part in a panel at the Moonshot Summit in Prague, CZ.
Keynote at UNYP URC Conference
Delivered a keynote for the UNYP URC conference.
Invited Talk at the Hoover Institution
Delivered an invited talk at the Hoover Institution in Palo Alto, CA.
Panel and Fireside Chat at SXSW
Joined a panel discussion and a fireside chat at SXSW in Austin, TX.
Invited Talk at WACV Workshop
Delivered an invited talk at the WACV workshop on synthetic realities in Tucson, AZ.
Unicef DCE Workshop in Nairobi
Discussed AI and disinformation at Unicef's DCE workshop in Nairobi, Kenya.
2024
Czech AI Personality Award — Discovery of the Year
Honored to receive the Czech AI Personality Award (Osobnost.ai) as the Discovery of the Year.
Volunteered for SIGGRAPH Asia
Volunteered for SIGGRAPH Asia in Tokyo, Japan.
Hyde Park Civilization TV Appearance
Discussed my research on Hyde Park Civilization, a Czech TV show about science.
Guest Lecture in Stanford's DATASCI 194D
Delivered a guest lecture in Stanford's DATASCI 194D.
Panel at Aspen Institute Annual Conference
Joined a panel at the Aspen Institute's Annual Conference in Prague, Czechia.
Talk at FPY Conference
Delivered a talk at the FPY Conference in Prague, Czechia.
Co-presented at ASSETS 2024
Co-presented work led by Vaclav Knapp at ASSETS 2024.
Commentary for CBC on Political Deepfake
Offered commentary for the CBC reacting to an alleged political deepfake.
Deepfake Research on Ö1
Discussed our deepfake research on Ö1 (Austria's public news station).
Commentary on Nobel Prizes for AI in WIRED
Wrote a commentary about the Nobel Prizes awarded for AI discoveries for WIRED.
Presented at DCMI 2024
Presented joint work with Nacho Villanova at DCMI 2024.
Talk and Panel at EU DisinfoLab Conference
Delivered a talk and joined a panel on the role of AI in disinformation at the EU DisinfoLab conference in Riga, Latvia.
Lightning Talk at SIO Trust & Safety Research Conference
Delivered a lightning talk at the SIO Trust & Safety Research conference at Stanford.
Invited Talk at Search Guardian Workshop
Delivered a short invited talk at the Search Guardian workshop.
Talk at NYU AI, Misinformation, and Policy Seminar
Delivered a talk at NYU's AI, Misinformation, and Policy Seminar.
Invited Talk at MAD 2024 Workshop
Delivered an invited talk at the MAD 2024 workshop collocated with ICMR 2024.
HN Innovator of the Year Award
Honored to receive the HN Innovator of the Year Award.
Forbes 30 Under 30
Honored to appear on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list (Czech).
2023
CNN Deepfake Collaboration and PNAS Article
Collaborated with CNN to create a deepfake of Anderson Cooper and wrote an article about this project for PNAS. This work was also featured in Science.
