Jiri Hodik works as the research fellow in the Agent Technology Group at the Gerstner Laboratory, CTU. He graduated from Czech Technical University in Technical Cybernetics in year 2001. His research interests include artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, auctions, multi-criteria decision-making, virtual markets, trust and reputation building and managing, and virtual organizations. During the visiting scholarship at the State University of New York at Binghamton he worked on immune system methods for information security systems (project BASIS funded by U.S. Air Force Research Lab at Rome NY).

He also participated several European research projects in the fields of advanced trading strategies and trust building in market environment (IST Project AgentCities.NET), and extra-enterprise production planning and virtual enterprises (IST Project ExtraPlanT). Currently, he is involved in research of advanced agent-based technologies for supporting virtual organizations (IST Integrated Project ECOLEAD).