prof. Ing. Miroslav Vozňák, Ph.D.
Place of work
VŠB – Technical University of Ostrava
Field
Information and communication technologies
Professor Miroslav Vozňák is the Head of the Department of Telecommunication Engineering at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, VŠB – Technical University Ostrava. His professional interest is communication technologies. He has participated in a number of international research projects funded directly by the European Commission or NATO, as well as supported by national sources.
Since 2020, he has regularly appeared in the list of the World’s Top 2% Scientists for Information and Communication Technologies compiled by Stanford University.
Research, projects, activities
His research focuses on the Internet of Things, QoS in networks, communications security, sensor networks, ad hoc networks, quantum key distribution, and big data analytics in networks. This is in line with research projects where he has led research teams as Principal or Institutional Investigator, e.g. in recent years Horizon2020 Tetramax (2017-2022), Horizon2020 OpenQKD (2019-2023), NATO Quantum5 (2021-2024) and the newly acquired Horizon Questing (2025-2029).
He is an invited speaker at various international events and his lecture often opens conferences or conference days, e.g. IFIP WMNC 2024 in Venice, ICUMT 2023 in Ghent or AETA 2022 in Saigon.
He is a member of the scientific council of CTU in Prague and three faculty scientific councils of universities in the Czech Republic, also a member of the IEEE community as an IEEE Senior Member. In addition, he is also a Rotarian and President of the Rotary Club of Ostrava for the Rotary year 2025/2026.
Impact
In addition to the research results published in more than 500 indexed outputs in the Scopus and WoS citation databases, he has over 100 non-published results registered in the Register of Science and Research Results of the Czech Republic, including 14 inventions registered by the Industrial Property Office. Among the outputs that have been used in practice in recent years is the Mobility Atlas, in which information on population movements is processed from anonymised mobile network traffic data, and which often appeared on television news in the Covid-19 era. Another example is the quantum key distribution simulator, which is used in the design of quantum communication infrastructures and is popular in many foreign workplaces.
A practical benefit for the region is especially his cooperation with industrial partners from MSK, which together with his team are developing innovations in the field of sensors and new products for the Internet of Things.
