Research/art/teacher profile of a person
Name and surname:
Mgr. Štefan Pócoš, PhD.
Document type:
Research/art/teacher profile of a person
The name of the university:
Comenius University Bratislava
The seat of the university:
Šafárikovo námestie 6, 818 06 Bratislava

I. - Basic information

I.1 - Surname
Pócoš
I.2 - Name
Štefan
I.3 - Degrees
Mgr., PhD.
I.4 - Year of birth
1995
I.5 - Name of the workplace
Department of applied informatics FMPI
I.6 - Address of the workplace
Mlynská dolina F1 842 48 Bratislava
I.7 - Position
Postdoctoral researcher
I.8 - E-mail address
stefan.pocos@fmph.uniba.sk
I.9 - Hyperlink to the entry of a person in the Register of university staff
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/70024?do=filterForm-submit&surname=P%C3%B3co%C5%A1&employment_state=yes&filter=Vyh%C4%BEada%C5%A5
I.10 - Name of the study field in which a person works at the university
Applied informatics
I.11 - ORCID iD
0000-0003-3799-7038

II. - Higher education and further qualification growth

II.1 - First degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Comenius University Bratislava
II.b - Year
2018
II.c - Study field and programme
Mathematics, mathematics
II.2 - Second degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Comenius University Bratislava
II.b - Year
2020
II.c - Study field and programme
Mathematics, computer graphics and geometry
II.3 - Third degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Comenius University Bratislava
II.b - Year
2024
II.c - Study field and programme
Informatics
II.4 - Associate professor
II.5 - Professor
II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

III. - Current and previous employment

III.a - Occupation-position III.b - Institution III.c - Duration
Postdoctoral researcher Comenius University Bratislava 2024 - 2025

IV. - Development of pedagogical, professional, language, digital and other skills

V. - Overview of activities within the teaching career at the university

V.1 - Overview of the profile courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes
V.2 - Overview of the responsibility for the delivery, development and quality assurance of the study programme or its part at the university in the current academic year
V.3 - Overview of the responsibility for the development and quality of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure in the current academic year
V.4 - Overview of supervised final theses
V.4.1 - Number of currently supervised theses
V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
0
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
2
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
0
V.4.2 - Number of defended theses
V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
0
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
0
V.5 - Overview of other courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes
V.5.a - Name of the course V.5.b - Study programme V.5.c - Degree V.5.d - Field of study
Introduction to artificial intelligence Applied informatics 1 Informatics
Neural networks Applied informatics 2 Informatics

VI. - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1 - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs and the corresponding citations
VI.1.1 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
11
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
11
VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
5
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
4
VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
12
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
12
VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
8
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
8
VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level
VI.1.a - Overall
0
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
0
VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs
1

Pócoš, Š., Bečková, I., and Farkaš, I. (2024). RecViT: Enhancing vision transformer with top-down information flow. In Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 3: VISAPP, pages 749–756. INSTICC, SciTePress.

2

Krakovská, A., Pócoš, Š., Mojžišová, K., Bečková, I., and Gubáš, J. X. (2022). State space reconstruction techniques and the accuracy of prediction. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 111:106422.

3

Pócoš, Š., Bečková, I., and Farkaš, I. (2022). Examining the proximity of adversarial examples to class manifolds in deep networks. In Pimenidis, E., Angelov, P., Jayne, C., Papaleonidas, A., and Aydin, M., editors, Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2022, pages 645–656, Cham. Springer Nature Switzerland.

4

Bečková, I., Pócoš Š., and Farkaš, I. (2020). Computational analysis of robustness in neural network classifiers. In Farkaš, I., Masulli, P., and Wermter, S., editors, Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2020, pages 65–76, Cham. Springer International Publishing.

5

Pócoš, Š., Bečková, I., Kuzma, T., and Farkaš, I. (2021). Assessment of manifold unfolding in trained deep neural network classifiers. In Heintz, F., Milano, M., and O’Sullivan, B., editors, Trustworthy AI - Integrating Learning, Optimization and Reasoning, pages 93–103, Cham. Springer International Publishing.

VI.3 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs over the last six years
1

Pócoš, Š., Bečková, I., and Farkaš, I. (2024). RecViT: Enhancing vision transformer with top-down information flow. In Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 3: VISAPP, pages 749–756. INSTICC, SciTePress.

2

Krakovská, A., Pócoš, Š., Mojžišová, K., Bečková, I., and Gubáš, J. X. (2022). State space reconstruction techniques and the accuracy of prediction. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 111:106422.

3

Pócoš, Š., Bečková, I., and Farkaš, I. (2022). Examining the proximity of adversarial examples to class manifolds in deep networks. In Pimenidis, E., Angelov, P., Jayne, C., Papaleonidas, A., and Aydin, M., editors, Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2022, pages 645–656, Cham. Springer Nature Switzerland.

4

Bečková, I., Pócoš Š., and Farkaš, I. (2020). Computational analysis of robustness in neural network classifiers. In Farkaš, I., Masulli, P., and Wermter, S., editors, Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2020, pages 65–76, Cham. Springer International Publishing.

5

Pócoš, Š., Bečková, I., Kuzma, T., and Farkaš, I. (2021). Assessment of manifold unfolding in trained deep neural network classifiers. In Heintz, F., Milano, M., and O’Sullivan, B., editors, Trustworthy AI - Integrating Learning, Optimization and Reasoning, pages 93–103, Cham. Springer International Publishing.

VI.4 - The most significant citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
1

Ebid, S. E., El-Tantawy, S., Shawky, D., & Abdel-Malek, H. L. (2025). Correlation-based pruning algorithm with weight compensation for feedforward neural networks. Neural Computing and Applications, 1-17.

2

Xu, L., & Wang, D. (2024). The reconstruction of equivalent underlying model based on direct causality for multivariate time series. PeerJ Computer Science10, e1922.

3

Zhang, Y., Wang, Z., Jiang, J., You, H., & Chen, J. (2022, October). Toward improving the robustness of deep learning models via model transformation. In Proceedings of the 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (pp. 1-13).

4

Jiang, J., Yang, J., Zhang, Y., Wang, Z., You, H., & Chen, J. (2024). A post-training framework for improving the performance of deep learning models via model transformation. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 33(3), 1-41.

5

Del Tatto, V., Fortunato, G., Bueti, D., & Laio, A. (2024). Robust inference of causality in high-dimensional dynamical processes from the information imbalance of distance ranks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(19), e2317256121.

VI.5 - Participation in conducting (leading) the most important research projects or art projects over the last six years

VII. - Overview of organizational experience related to higher education and research/artistic/other activities

VIII. - Overview of international mobilities and visits oriented on education and research/artistic/other activities in the given field of study

IX. - Other relevant facts

Date of last update
2025-05-09