Draft:Martin Saska

'''Doc. Ing. Martin Saska, Ph. D.''' (* 1980) is a researcher at the Czech Technical University (ČVUT) in Prague in the field of robotics and autonomous systems. He is one of the leading Czech experts in the development of autonomous drones.

Life and Work
Martin Saska received his master's degree from the Czech Technical University in Prague in 2005 and his doctoral degree from the Julius Maximilian University in Würzburg, Germany, as part of the Elite Network of Bavaria doctoral program in 2009. Since 2009, he has been a researcher at the Czech Technical University in Prague, where he founded and leads the laboratory of the Multirobotic Systems research group at the Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering. He co-founded the Center for Robotics and Autonomous Systems with more than 70 researchers collaborating in the field of robotics. In 2008, he was a visiting researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, and in 2012, 2014 and 2016 at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, where he collaborated with Vijay Kumar's group within the GRASP laboratory. He has authored or co-authored numerous publications in peer-reviewed conferences with several best paper awards and in high-impact journals, including The International Journal of Robotics Research by SAGE Publications, Autonomous Robots by Springer or the Journal of Field Robotics by Wiley. His team has won several robotics challenges in the Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC 2017, MBZIRC 2020 ) and DARPA.

Martin Saska is the author and co-author of more than 150 scientific papers and articles.

Awards

 * 1st place in DARPA Subterranean Challenge Tunnel Circuit - self-funded teams - UAV team leader
 * 1st prize in DARPA Subterranean Challenge Urban Circuit - self-funded teams - UAV team leader
 * 2nd Prize in DARPA Subterranean Challenge Virtual Competition Final (Among All Teams) - UAV Team Leader
 * 1st prize in the MBZIRC 2020 competition (among the grand challenges)
 * 1st prize in the MBZIRC 2020 competition (2nd challenge)
 * 2nd prize in the MBZIRC 2020 competition (1st challenge)
 * 1st prize in the MBZIRC 2017 competition (3rd challenge)
 * 2nd prize in the MBZIRC 2017 competition (1st challenge)
 * 3rd prize in the MBZIRC 2017 competition (grand challenge)
 * ICRA 2008 - Best Paper Award Honorary Finalist (first author)