Mgr. Tomáš Foltýnek, Ph.D.

Tomáš Foltýnek - Curriculum Vitae

Contact details

• E-mail: foltynek@fi.muni.cz
• Phone: +420 549 49 3793
  
  
• ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8412-5553
• WoS Researcher-ID: L-6448-2018
• Scopus Author ID: 55603121900
  
  
• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=B16uCpEAAAAJ
• ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tomas-Foltynek
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/TFoltynek
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomas-foltynek-8562711b/

Affiliation

• Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
  Botanická 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czechia

Current position

• Lecturer

Education and academic qualifications

• 2006: Ph.D. degree, Faculty of Business and Economics, Mendel University in Brno, field Economic informatics. State exam: information systems; management Ph.D. thesis on methodology of eLearning
• 2003: Master degree, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University in Brno, program Teacher training for secondary schools, fields Mathematics and Informatics
• 1998: Secondary college (Gymnázium Brno, tř. Kpt. Jaroše), class with focus on mathematics

Professional experience

• 2023 – now: Assistant Professor (full time)
  Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
  Lectures of the course Ethics and IT
  Seminars of courses on Data Analytics
  
• 2021 – 2023: Lecturer (full time)
  Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
  Seminars of courses: Mathematical foundations of informatics, Introduction to programming, Data structures and algorithms, Formal languages and automata
  Lectures and development of a new course Ethics and IT
  Till January 2022 part-time
• 2004 – 2022: Assistant professor (full time)
  Department of Informatics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Mendel University in Brno
  Lecturing and coordination of courses: Theoretical informatics, Computability and complexity, Computer technology and algorithms, Graph theory, Data compression and cryptology, Blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies
  Development of an eLearning system and a plagiarism detection system
  Research in academic integrity, plagiarism detection and prevention
  During 2018-2019, and from September 2021 part-time
• 2018 – 2019: Senior researcher for plagiarism detection and semantic analysis (full time)
  Data & Knowledge Engineering group; School of Electrical, Information and Media Engineering; University of Wuppertal; Germany
  Teaching: Introduction to computer science, Blockchain technology
  Collaboration or research projects and grant applications
• 2015 – 2018: Vice-dean for international affairs (appointed position)
  Faculty of Business and Economics, Mendel University in Brno
• 2011 – 2012: Developer (part time)
  IS4U, s.r.o.
  Development of a CMS and CRM information system
• 2001 – 2004: Network administrator (part time)
  Friends of the Earth Czech Republic

Teaching activities

• Current courses: Ethics and IT, Mathematical foundations of informatics, Introduction to programming, Data structures and algorithms, Formal languages and automata
• Past courses: Theoretical informatics, Computability and complexity, Computer technology and algorithms, Graph theory, Data compression and cryptology, Blockchain and cryptocurrencies
• Academic integrity training for Slovak Agriculture University in Nitra, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CEITEC, University of Ostrava, St. Anne’s University Hospital

Selected publications

• Research topics: Plagiarism detection and prevention, academic integrity
  
  
• Foltýnek, T., & Dlabolová, D. (2020). Academic integrity in Eastern Europe: beyond corruption and plagiarism. In T. Bretag (Ed.), A Research Agenda for Academic Integrity (pp. 40–54). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789903775
• Foltýnek, T., Všianský, R., Meuschke, N., Dlabolová, D., & Gipp, B. (2020). Cross-Language Source Code Plagiarism Detection Using Explicit Semantic Analysis and Scored Greedy String Tilling. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in 2020 (pp. 523–524). New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3383583.3398594. CORE A*
• Foltýnek, T., Dlabolová, D., Anohina-Naumeca, A., Razı, S., Kravjar, J., Kamzola, L., … Weber-Wulff, D. (2020). Testing of support tools for plagiarism detection. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 17(1), 46. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-020-00192-4 IF 3.080; Q1 (2019)
• Králíková, V., Vajdíková, R., & Foltýnek, T. (2019). Global essay mills survey: Is student cheating related to the national economy? Ethical Perspectives, 26(1), 91–118. https://doi.org/10.2143/EP.26.1.3286290. IF 0.256; Q4 (2018)
• Foltýnek, T., Meuschke, N., & Gipp, B. (2019). Academic Plagiarism Detection: A Systematic Literature Review. ACM Computing Surveys, 52(6), 112:1--112:42. https://doi.org/10.1145/3345317. IF 6.131; Q1 (2018)
• Mahmud, S., Bretag, T., & Foltýnek, T. (2019). Students’ Perceptions of Plagiarism Policy in Higher Education: A Comparison of the United Kingdom, Czechia, Poland and Romania. Journal of Academic Ethics, 17, 271–289. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10805-018-9319-0
• Foltýnek, T., & Králíková, V. (2018). Analysis of the Contract Cheating Market in Czechia, International Journal for Educational Integrity, 14(1), 4. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40979-018-0027-8
• Glendinning, I., Lancaster, T., Foltýnek, T., Dlabolová, D., Linkeschová, D., & Calhoun, B. (2018). South-East European Project on Policies for Academic Integrity (Vol. 5), Strasbourg: Council of Europe. ISBN: 978-92-871-8482-5

Professional stays abroad

• 03/2018 – 09/2018: University of Konstanz, Germany. Visiting researcher, Information Science Group
• 02/2016 – 02/2016: University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia. Erasmus+ credit mobility

Projects

• 2021 – 2021: Academic integrity in online education. Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, Centralized development project Project expert
• 2021 – 2023: Disaster Recovery. Technological Agency of the Czech Republic, Clever Analytics & Mendel University in Brno Researcher
• 2020 – 2022: Bridging Integrity in Higher Education, Business and Society. Erasmus+ Strategic partnerships project coordinated by Uppsala University, Sweden. Manager of the project team at partner institution
• 2020 – 2020: Plagiarism prevention in student assignments. Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, Centralized development project. Project expert
• 2018 – 2019: Project on Academic integrity in Caucasus, Kazakhstan and Turkey Council of Europe, contracted research project with Coventry University. Project manager
• 2016 – 2019: European Network for Academic Integrity. Erasmus+ Strategic partnerships (12 partners from 11 countries). Project manager
• 2016 – 2017: South-east European project on policies for academic integrity Council of Europe, contracted research project with Coventry University. Project manager
• 2010 – 2013: Impact of policies for plagiarism in higher education across Europe. LLP/Erasmus project coordinated by Coventry University, UK. Manager of the project team at partner institution

Membership in professional bodies

• 2020 – now: Council of higher education institutions of the Czech Republic: Deputy head of the committee for ethics in teaching and research; Representative of FI MU
• 2020 – now: National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance, Ukraine: Member of the Advisory Board
• 2017 – now: European Network for Academic Integrity: President of the Board; Representative of MU
• 2016 – now: Council of Europe: Member of Steering group of Pan-European Platform for Ethics, Transparency and Integrity in Education; Representative of Czechia
• 2015 – now: International Journal for Educational Integrity: Editorial Board Member

Conference organisation and Invited talks

• Conference organisation:
  Plagiarism across Europe and Beyond 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
  European conference on academic integrity and plagiarism 2021, 2022
  
  Invited talks:
• 07/2022: Invited talk: Emerging challenges in safeguarding academic integrity, Council of Europe, Herceg Novi, Montenegro
• 06/2022: Invited talk: Seminar on academic integrity, Institute of International Academic and Scientific Cooperation, Ukraine (online)
• 02/2022: Keynote speech: PhD Existence, University of Olomouc (online)
• 10/2021: Invited talk: Text Reuse Detection 2021, Antiplagiat.ru (online)
• 10/2021: Invited talk: National Conference on Academic and Research Integrity, Slovak Centre for Scientific and Technical Information, Bratislava
• 06/2021: First Virtual Academic Integrity Roundtable, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan (online)
• 05/2021: Meeting on Academic integrity organized by Slovak accreditation agency for higher education (online)
• 03/2021: Path2Integrity discussion panel: Embedding research integrity education in educational institutions (online)
• 10/2020: Keynote speech: Academic integrity and plagiarism, Charles University, Czechia
• 10/2020: Keynote speech: 8th International conference on Academic Integrity, University of Monterrey, Mexico (online)
• 10/2019: Keynote speech: 7th International conference on Academic Integrity, University of Monterrey, Mexico
• 09/2019: Invited workshop: Vienna Days of Academic Integrity, Vienna, Austria
• 05/2019: Keynote speech and invited workshops: International conference on Academic integrity. Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
• 10/2018: Keynote speech: International conference Shaping Ethics in Academia and Society. Vilnius, Lithuania
• 11/2016: Plenary speech: Meeting of the Pan-European platform for ethics, transparency and integrity in education. Strasbourg, France
• 04/2016: Keynote speech: Council of Europe’s seminar on academic integrity. Moscow, Russia
• 12/2014: Plenary speech: Meeting of Council of Europe’s Steering committee for educational policy and practice. Brussels, Belgium

Major publications

• WEBER-WULFF, Debora, Alla ANOHINA-NAUMECA, Sonja BJELOBABA, Tomáš FOLTÝNEK, Jean GUERRERO-DIB, Olumide POPOOLA, Petr ŠIGUT a Lorna WADDINGTON. Testing of detection tools for AI-generated text. International Journal for Educational Integrity. 2023, roč. 19, č. 26, s. 1-39. ISSN 1833-2595. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40979-023-00146-z. URL info

2023/03/07