Marek Černý
Marek Černý
I am a Ph.D. student supervised by Prof. Floris Geerts at UAntwerp in Flanders, Belgium. My research centers on whatever connects structural graph theory with the expressive power of graph neural networks. This effort has various impact areas, including drug discovery, material science, or spatiotemporal analytics.
Previously, I graduated with highest honors in discrete models and algorithms from Charles University. My thesis relating topology and neural networks was advised by Bastian Grossenbacher-Rieck and Robert Šámal. Simultaneously, I was a research engineer in deep learning, computer vision, and temporal-spatial networks at several global companies and start-ups.
Contact
Feel free to contact me via email `me at marekcerny dot com`. Follow me on Bluesky, view my CV on LinkedIn, or check out some stuff on my GitHub, Semantic and Google Scholars. I proudly use OrgPad. Inquiries regarding research ideas or experiences are warmly welcome.
News
- Upcoming talk: Restricted-Conjunction Logic Turns Message Passing into Multiplicity Automata, Workshop on Logic and Graph Neural Networks.
- Upcoming talk: Unlocking Lower-Order Inductive Biases with Caterpillar GNNs, Learning on Graphs Paris Meetup 2026.
- Slides for the presentation of On Numbers of Simplicial Walks and Equivalent Canonizations for Graph Recognition.
- Slides for the presentation of Homomorphism Indistinguishability, Multiplicity Automata Equivalence, and Polynomial Identity Testing.
- On Numbers of Simplicial Walks and Equivalent Canonizations for Graph Recognition is to appear in LATIN 2026.
- Homomorphism Indistinguishability, Multiplicity Automata Equivalence, and Polynomial Identity Testing with Tim Seppelt is to appear in STACS 2026.
- Caterpillar GNN 🐛 preprint out! (arXiv:2506.06784)
- Systems and Methods for Recurrent Graph Neural Net-Based Player Role Identification invented during my pre-PhD (patent/20250292571)
- Attending HOOC (11–13 Aug 2025, Aachen) with a contributed talk Can We Go Lower Order by Going Higher Order? (slides)
- Visiting EEML Summer School, see you in Sarajevo!
- Visiting LOGML Summer School 2024
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