Petr Somol

AI research director at Gen Digital

Petr Somol is the AI research director at Gen Digital (formerly Avast Software and Norton LifeLock). Over the last ten years he has led multiple industrial AI research teams and has lectured on artificial intelligence at numerous conferences worldwide. In 2000 he obtained his PhD from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University in Prague. For more than twenty years he worked as a scientist at the Czech Academy of Sciences and briefly at Cambridge University. He has a long-held interest in and knowledge of typography and book design and has himself designed a number of books and posters.