UCM
Research/art/teacher profile of a person
Name and surname:
 doc. RNDr. PaedDr. Ladislav Huraj, PhD.
Email:
 ladislav.huraj@ucm.sk
Homepage:
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Fakulta/Univerzita:
FPV UCM - Faculty of Natural Sciences
Pracovisko:
UPTI - Ústav počítačových technológií a informatiky

I. - Basic information

I.1 - Surname
Huraj
I.2 - Name
Ladislav
I.3 - Degrees
doc. RNDr. PaedDr., PhD.
I.4 - Year of birth
1974
I.5 - Name of the workplace
Institute of Computer Technologies and Informatics, FNS UCM in Trnava
I.6 - Address of the workplace
Nám. J. Herdu 2, 91701 Trnava
I.7 - Position
professor
I.8 - E-mail address
ladislav.huraj@ucm.sk
I.9 - Hyperlink to the entry of a person in the Register of university staff
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/14469
I.10 - Name of the study field in which a person works at the university
Informatics
I.11 - ORCID iD
0000-0002-3469-3170

II. - Higher education and further qualification growth

II.1 - First degree of higher education
II.2 - Second degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Comenius University
II.b - Year
1997
II.c - Study field and programme
teach: mathematics-informatics
II.3 - Third degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Slovak Technical University, Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies, Bratislava, Slovakia
II.b - Year
2006
II.c - Study field and programme
Applied Informatics
II.4 - Associate professor
II.a - Name of the university or institution
University of Hradec Králové, Faculty of Informatics and Management, Czech Republic
II.b - Year
2013
II.c - Study field and programme
System Engineering and Informatics
II.5 - Professor
II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

III. - Current and previous employment

III.a - Occupation-position III.b - Institution III.c - Duration
Associate Professor / Professor Institute of Computer Technologies and Informatics, FPV UCM in Trnava 2009-present
Assistant professor Dept. of Informatics FPV, Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica 1997-2009
research assistant (wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft – HiWi) Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, TU Chemnitz, Germany nov.-dec. 2001

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

IV.a - Activity description, course name, other IV.b - Name of the institution IV.c - Year
Information security manager according to ISO 27000 CIS international certificate 2015
Accredited ECDL (European Computer Driving Licence) examiner The ICDL Foundation 2008

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.1.a - Name of the profile course V.1.b - Study programme V.1.c - Degree V.1.d - Field of study
Information security Applied Informatics I. Computer Science
theoretical foundations of informatics II Applied Informatics I. Computer Science
project management Applied Informatics I. Computer Science
graph algorithms and their applications Applied Informatics II. Computer Science
cyber security Applied Informatics III. Computer Science
information and knowledge management Applied Informatics III. Computer Science
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.2.a - Name of the study programme V.2.b - Degree V.2.c - Field of study
Applied Informatics I. Computer Science
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)
3
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
1
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
3
V.4.2 - Number of defended theses
V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
56
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
26
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
2
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
Theoretical foundations of computer science I, II Applied Informatics I. Computer Science
Virtual and mixed reality systems Applied Informatics I. Computer Science
Team project Applied Informatics II. Computer Science
Bachelor project I. Applied Informatics I. Computer Science
Efficient algorithms Applied Informatics II. Computer Science

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
135
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
30
VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
59
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
29
VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
388
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
300
VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
351
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
297
VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level
VI.1.a - Overall
2
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
1
VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs

Huraj, L.; Horak, T.; Strelec, P.; Tanuska, P. Mitigation against DDoS Attacks on an IoT-Based Production Line Using Machine Learning. Appl. Sci. 2021, 11, 1847. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11041847 (CC, IF 2.474) 

Horak, T.; Strelec, P.; Huraj, L.; Tanuska, P.; Vaclavova, A.; Kebisek, M. The Vulnerability of the Production Line Using Industrial IoT Systems under DDoS Attack. Electronics 2021, 10, 381. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040381 (CC, IF 2.412) 

Huraj, L.; Šimon, M.; Horák, T. Resistance of IoT Sensors against DDoS Attack in Smart Home Environment. Sensors 2020, 20, 5298. (CC, IF 3.275) 

Huraj, L., Šimon, M., and Horák, T.: IoT Measuring of UDP-Based Distributed Reflective DoS Attack. In: IEEE 16th International Symposium on Intelligent Systems and Informatics (SISY 2018). IEEE, Serbia, 2018, pp. 209-214.

Šimon, M., Dirgová Luptáková, I., Huraj, L., and Pospíchal, J.: Multi-hub location heuristic for alert routing. IEEE Access, Volume 7, 2019, pp. 40369-40379. doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2907161 (CC, IF 4.098)

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

Huraj, L.; Horak, T.; Strelec, P.; Tanuska, P. Mitigation against DDoS Attacks on an IoT-Based Production Line Using Machine Learning. Appl. Sci. 2021, 11, 1847. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11041847 (CC, IF 2.474) 

Horak, T.; Strelec, P.; Huraj, L.; Tanuska, P.; Vaclavova, A.; Kebisek, M. The Vulnerability of the Production Line Using Industrial IoT Systems under DDoS Attack. Electronics 2021, 10, 381. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040381 (CC, IF 2.412) 

Huraj, L.; Šimon, M.; Horák, T. Resistance of IoT Sensors against DDoS Attack in Smart Home Environment. Sensors 2020, 20, 5298. (CC, IF 3.275) 

Vaclavova A, Strelec P, Horak T, Kebisek M, Tanuska P, Huraj L. Proposal for an IIoT Device Solution According to Industry 4.0 Concept. Sensors. 2022; 22(1):325. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22010325 (CC, WoS, IF 3.576,Q1)

Huraj, L., Lengyelfalusy, T., Hurajová, A., Lajčin, D. Measuring Cyber Security Awareness: A Comparison between Computer Science and Media Science Students. TEM Journal. 2023, 12(2), pp. 623-633, ISSN 2217-8309, doi:10.18421/TEM122-05. (IF 0.7, SJR 0.23 Q3)

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

Huraj, L.; Šimon, M.; Horák, T. Resistance of IoT Sensors against DDoS Attack in Smart Home Environment. Sensors 2020, 20, 5298

citované v: Onesimu, J.A., Karthikeyan, J. & Sei, Y. An efficient clustering-based anonymization scheme for privacy-preserving data collection in IoT based healthcare services. Peer-to-Peer Netw. Appl. (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12083-021-01077-7. (Q2)

Huraj, L., Šimon, M., and Horák, T.: IoT Measuring of UDP-Based Distributed Reflective DoS Attack. In: IEEE 16th International Symposium on Intelligent Systems and Informatics (SISY 2018). IEEE, Serbia, 2018, pp. 209-214.  

citované v: Gondim, João JC, Robson de Oliveira Albuquerque, and Ana Lucila Sandoval Orozco. "Mirror saturation in amplified reflection Distributed Denial of Service: A case of study using SNMP, SSDP, NTP and DNS protocols." Future Generation Computer Systems (2020). (Q1)

Huraj, L., Šimon, M., and Horák, T.: IoT Measuring of UDP-Based Distributed Reflective DoS Attack. In: IEEE 16th International Symposium on Intelligent Systems and Informatics (SISY 2018). IEEE, Serbia, 2018, pp. 209-214.  

citované v: Samaila, M. G., Sequeiros, J. B., Simões, T., Freire, M. M., & Inácio, P. R. (2020). IoT-HarPSecA: A Framework and Roadmap for Secure Design and Development of Devices and Applications in the IoT Space. IEEE Access. (Q1)

Huraj, L., Šimon, M., and Horák, T.: IoT Measuring of UDP-Based Distributed Reflective DoS Attack. In: IEEE 16th International Symposium on Intelligent Systems and Informatics (SISY 2018). IEEE, Serbia, 2018, pp. 209-214.  

citované v: Waraga, O. A., Bettayeb, M., Nasir, Q., & Talib, M. A. (2020). Design and implementation of automated IoT security testbed. Computers & Security, 88, 101648. (Q2)

Huraj, L., Siládi, V, Siláči, J.: Design and Performance Evaluation of Snow Cover Computing on GPUs. In: Proceedings of the 14th WSEAS International Conference on Computers: Latest Trends on Computers, Corfu Island, Greece, July 2010, pp. 674-677,

citované v: Montella, Raffaele, et al. "Workflow-based automatic processing for Internet of Floating Things crowdsourced data." Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 94, May 2019, Pages 103-119. (Q1)

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

project leader - VEGA 1/0175/25 - VEGA - Applying machine learning and digital fingerprinting to improve detection and mitigation of DDoS attacks), 2025 - 2027

APVV-17-0116 Algorithm of collective intelligence: Interdisciplinary study of swarming behaviour in bats, SAV, 2018-2021

VEGA 1/0272/18 Holistic approach of knowledge discovery from production data in compliance with Industry 4.0 concept, 2018-2021

APVV-22-0469- APVV - Roadmap of a digital platform providing AI (Artificial Intelligence) automation of decision-making processes in the field of communication strategy, 2023 - 2027

project leader - KEGA 012UCM-4/2021 - Modern technologies and innovations in network security education), 2021 - 2023

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

VII.a - Activity, position VII.b - Name of the institution, board VII.c - Duration
vice-dean for development and accreditation FNS UCM in Trnava 2012 - 2015
Head of Institute of Computer Technologies and Informatics (formerly the Dept. of Applied Informatics) FNS UCM in Trnava 2015 - 2016, 2012 - 2013, 2022-present
member Association for Computing Machinery ACM 2010-2021
member Slovak Association for Information Security - SASIB 2000-2019
Scientific Board of the Faculty of Natural Sciences UCM in Trnava The Faculty of Natural Science University of SS. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava 2011-present (3 periods)

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

VIII.a - Name of the institution VIII.b - Address of the institution VIII.c - Duration (indicate the duration of stay) VIII.d - Mobility scheme, employment contract, other (describe)
Institute of Informatics, LMU Munich Munich, Germany august 2008 - okt. 2008 DAAD - research stay for university teachers and researchers
Institute for applied information processing and communications, TU Graz Graz, Austria september 2005 - november2005 OAD - research stay
Institute of Informatics, LMU Munich Munich, Germany november 2003 - jan. 2004 DAAD - research stay for PhD students and young scientists
Oulu University of Applied Science Raahe/Oulu, Finland 8.4.2008-22.4.2008 / 15.03.2015-22.03.2015 Erasmus / project - Creation and innovation of study programs
Faculty of Philosophy and Science, Silesian University in Opava Opava, Czech Republic 20.6.2016-24.06.2016 Erasmus+
University of Bielsko-Biala, Bielsko-Biala Bielsko-Biała, Poland 12.06.2017-16.06.2017 Erasmus+
Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava Ostrava, Czech Republic 11.6.2018-15.6.2018 Erasmus+
Faculty of Applied Informatics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín Zlín, Czech Republic 23.04.2019-26.04.2019 Erasmus+
Department of Informatics, Faculty of Science, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem Ústí nal Labem, Czech Republic 3.6. 2019-7.6.2019 Erasmus+
Djillali LIABES University Sidi-Bel-Abbes Sidi bel Abbes, Algeria 16.7. 2022-25.7.2022 Erasmus+

IX. - Other relevant facts

IX.a - If relevant, other activities related to higher education or research/artistic/other activities are mentioned

Member of Program Committee:

- Springer conference: ICISSP 2026, ICISSP 2025, ICT Innovations 2025, … , ICT Innovations 2013, FGCN/DCA 2012

- IEEE Computer Society conference: Informatics’24, ..., Informatics’22, Informatics’2019, NCM 2011, NCM 2010, ICIS 2010, ICNIT 2011, IDCTA 2011, ICCIT 2011, ICCIT 2010, ICCIT 2009

- ACM conference: BCI 2019, BCI 2017, BCI 2015, BCI 2013, BCI 2012

- other conferences: ITAT 2020, REMS 2018, Stavropoľ 2018, I&IT 2009, DidInfo 2014, …, DidInfo 2008.

PhD. thesis opponent: 2020, 2016 field: Applied Informatics (ŽU); 2017 Process Automation and Informatization (MtF STU); 2018, 2009 Informatics Education (FMFI UK)

- 2010-present - editor Journal of Applied Mathematics, Statistics and Informatics, ISSN 1336-9180 (WoS, IF)

- 2023-present - editor Societal Impacts Elsevier Journal, ISSN 2949-6977

- member of the KEGA grant committee in the period 2016-2020; 2021-2026

- 2025, 2020 member of the evaluation committee for the field of informatics for the Institute of Informatics and the The Research Institute IT4Innovations, Silesian University in Opava, CZ

- 2017-2021 - supervisor in doctoral studies at MtF STU in program Process Automation and Informatization

Evaluation Experience (assessor):

- 2009-2010 consulting for the Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic - concept of a Person Identifier

- 2019 operational program Research and Innovation, Research Agency, SK

- 2018-2016 External international evaluator for the Operational Programme Research, Development and Education, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Czech Republic (Excellent Research, Long-Term Intersectoral Cooperation for ITI)

- 2021-2017 project Interreg V-A Poland-Slovakia, project Interreg V-A SK-Austria

- 2013, 2009: EU EUREKA Eurostars as Eurostars Technical expert, Brussels, Belgium,

- 2021-2017, 2015, 2014: Erasmus+ (KA2 Strategic Partnerships, KA1 Mobility of Individuals)

- 2009: EU research project evaluator for SEE-ERA.NET Plus, Bonn, Germany,

- 2007: EU research project evaluator for SEE-ERA.NET, Vienna, Austria. 

- 2011: project evaluator for Slovak Scientific Grant Agency (VEGA); 2016, 2015, 2013, 2011, 2007: project evaluator for Slovak Cultural & Education Grants Agency (KEGA) 

- 2014-2012, 2009, 2008, 2006: research project evaluator for Georgian National Science Foundation, Georgia.

- 2005,2006: EU research project evaluator for INTAS, Brussels, Belgium.

Date of last update
2026-01-19