

The People Behind Filuta AI
Our Team
39 engineers and AI scientists with 135+ years of combined AI research experience — united by the mission to transform software assurance.
Leadership Team
Driving the vision and strategy behind Filuta AI.

Filip Dvorak
Founder & CEO
Filip Dvorak is the founder and CEO of Filuta AI. He studied computer science at Charles University in Prague with a focus on symbolic AI — automated planning and scheduling, constraint satisfaction, and knowledge representation. He has published research at AAAI, ICTAI, and FLAIRS on temporal planning, finite-domain reformulation, and logistics optimization.

Slavomir Svancar
CTO
Slavomir Svancar is CTO of Filuta AI. A software engineer with 9+ years of experience in .NET and Python, he previously worked at Microsoft (Prague) and spent two years at Deloitte Czech Republic doing forensic data analysis on money laundering investigations in SWIFT data for major banks. He holds a Master's in Computer Science from the Technical University of Ostrava.

Tomas Plch
CPO
Tomas Plch is CPO and Technical Director at Filuta AI, and Co-CEO of Filuta AI Labs. He has 13+ years in AAA game development with credits on Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Main AI Architect), Cyberpunk 2077 (AI Team Lead), Star Citizen & Squadron 42 (Principal AI Engineer), and Modern Warfare 2 & 3 (AI Research Team Lead) at Warhorse Studios, CD Projekt RED, Cloud Imperium Games, and Infinity Ward. He holds a PhD in AI from Charles University in Prague and has published extensively on behavior trees, NPC systems, and large-scale AI simulations.

G. Michael Youngblood
Chief Scientist
G. Michael Youngblood, Ph.D., is Chief Scientist at Filuta AI and Director of Filuta AI Labs. His career spans the U.S. Navy, academia, and industry — including several years as a senior researcher at PARC (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center), where he worked on health AI platforms and holds multiple patents. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from UT Arlington. His research covers interactive AI, game AI, explainable AI, and process automation. At Filuta AI, he leads the core research team focused on learning action models for software testing and planning optimization.

Michal Ficek
CDO
Michal Ficek is Head of Data Science at Filuta AI, specializing in big data, machine learning, and spatio-temporal modeling. He holds a PhD in Telecommunications Engineering from Czech Technical University (thesis on tracking users in mobile networks) and a Master's from Charles University. He previously worked as a researcher at Telefonica in Barcelona. He is a Microsoft Research 2010 PhD Scholar and IEEE MASS 2010 Best Paper Award recipient.

Petr Nadvornik
Revenue Lead
Petr Nadvornik is Revenue Lead at Filuta AI. He spent over 11 years at Google — as New Business Acquisition Manager for Central & Eastern Europe (Dublin), Business Development Manager for US Agencies (New York), and Strategic Agency Manager (New York). He brings deep GTM and sales leadership experience across both US and European markets.
Advisors
World-class experts guiding our research and growth.

Roman Bartak
Advisor
Roman Bartak is a full professor of computer science at Charles University, Prague. He works in symbolic Artificial Intelligence, particularly in automated planning and scheduling, constraint satisfaction, and knowledge representation, applying model-based approaches to design of autonomous agents. He co-organised international conferences ICAPS 2023, SoCS 2023 and 2014, and FLAIRS 2022 and many workshops and special tracks at conferences.

Tomas Mikolov
Advisor
Tomas Mikolov is a pioneering AI researcher best known as the creator of Word2Vec — the seminal word embedding framework that revolutionized natural language processing, with over 198,000 citations. He developed Word2Vec as a Research Scientist at Google (2012-2014), then spent six years at Facebook AI Research (FAIR) advancing subword embeddings and document representations. He holds a PhD from Brno University of Technology. After returning to Prague as a Senior Researcher at CIIRC, he co-founded BottleCap AI in 2025.

Rene Morkos
Advisor
Rene Morkos, Ph.D., is the founder and CEO of ALICE Technologies — the world's first AI-powered generative construction simulation and optimization platform, which has raised nearly $40M from Lightspeed, Merus Capital, and Future Ventures. He holds a PhD in AI applications for construction from Stanford University (Charles H. Leavell fellow) and serves as an adjunct professor at Stanford's Civil and Environmental Engineering department. He is a Fulbright scholar and has over 15 years of construction industry experience spanning project management, automation engineering, and virtual design.

Michal Pechoucek
Advisor
Michal Pechoucek is a professor of AI and the newly appointed Rector of the Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague. He founded CTU's Artificial Intelligence Center and served as CTO of Avast (now Gen Digital) from 2019 to 2024, leading R&D, Threat Labs, and AI/ML research for cybersecurity. He previously founded three startups — Cognitive Security (acquired by Cisco), AgentFly Technologies, and BlindSpot Solutions (acquired by Adastra) — and co-founded prg.ai to position Prague as an AI hub. He has authored 400+ publications on AI.

Michal Trs
Advisor
Michal Trs is a seasoned engineering leader currently serving as CTO of Auris One, an AI-powered healthcare startup. He spent over 12 years at Avast (later Gen Digital), rising from senior virus analyst to VP of Engineering and Prague Site Lead, overseeing platform engineering, engineering enablement, and cybersecurity products. He holds an engineering degree from Czech Technical University in Prague.
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