AI agents
Agents that complete real administrative tasks, not demos. Grounded in the workflows of universities and municipalities.
Research
Applied research, attached to real systems.
Q13 does research the same way it does products: connected to systems people actually use. Every research question here comes from something running in production, and the results go back into it.
Research areas
RAG architecture
Retrieval-augmented generation over institutional knowledge: structure, evaluation and reliability in production.
Privacy-preserving AI for public services
How to run AI on public sector data without leaking it. Deployment models, access control and auditability.
Blockchain and verifiable credentials
Making university-issued certificates independently verifiable, with a production microcredentials platform as the testbed.
Next on the list: a digital twin of the university. We want campus data, systems and space modeled in one place, and we are actively looking for partners to build it with.
The living lab advantage.
Most research validates on synthetic benchmarks. Ours validates on thousands of real users.
Publications
- 2025 Published
Augmented Reality on iOS for Guiding Novice Users Through Maintenance Tasks
Ivo Písařovic, David Procházka, Jaromír Landa, Andrej Gono
PEFnet 2025: 29th European Scientific Conference of Doctoral Students
AR-based step-by-step guidance system for iOS that overlays instructions onto the physical world to assist users with no prior experience in maintenance tasks. Evaluated against video-based and manual-based instruction methods.
- 2025 Published
Connecting AI and Blockchain: A Case Study of a Digital Certificates Platform
David Procházka, Martin Záklasník, Andrej Gono, Oldřich Faldík, Radim Farana, Oldřich Trenz
PEFnet 2025: 29th European Scientific Conference of Doctoral Students
Case study of a certificates platform that combines AI-assisted processing with blockchain-backed verification. Shows how the two technologies complement each other: AI handles classification and extraction, blockchain provides the tamper-proof audit trail.
- 2025 Published
did:blox: A Secure and Efficient Decentralized Identifier Method for Scientific IoT Ecosystems Leveraging the Bloxberg Blockchain
Andrej Gono, František Dařena, David Procházka
IEEE Access
A novel DID method for scientific IoT devices anchored on the Bloxberg blockchain. Enables cryptographically verifiable provenance for data produced by distributed research instruments, addressing reproducibility concerns in data-intensive science.
- 2025 Published
Issuing Micro-Credentials with Bloxberg Blockchain
Martin Záklasník, Veronika Konečná, Oldřich Faldík, Oldřich Trenz, Andrej Gono
27th Annual International Conference Economic Competitiveness and Sustainability 2025
A working system for issuing and verifying university micro-credentials on the Bloxberg blockchain. Uses a REST API backend and React frontend with Proof of Authority consensus to make certificates independently verifiable without contacting the issuing institution.
- 2025 Published
A Framework for Developing and Evaluating Trustworthy RAG-Based AI Agents in the Public Sector
Andrej Gono
PEFnet 2025: 29th European Scientific Conference of Doctoral Students
A structured framework for building retrieval-augmented generation AI agents that meet the trustworthiness requirements of public sector applications. Covers evaluation methodology, guardrails, and the specific constraints of government and municipal deployments.
- 2024 Published
Decentralized Identity and Self-Sovereign Identity in IoT Environments: New Bloxberg Blockchain DID Method
Andrej Gono
PEFnet 2024: 28th European Scientific Conference of Doctoral Students
Proposal and evaluation of a new W3C DID method for IoT devices in research environments, anchored on the Bloxberg academic blockchain. Addresses the lack of a purpose-built decentralized identity solution for scientific instrumentation.
- 2024 Published
Improving IoT Management with Blockchain: Smart Home Access Control
Andrej Gono, Ivo Písařovic, Martin Zejda, Jaromír Landa, David Procházka
European Journal of Business Science and Technology, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 225–241
Blockchain-based access control for smart home IoT devices. Addresses the core tension between security and usability by integrating blockchain into device access management without introducing friction for everyday users.
- 2024 Published
Enhancing Micro-Credentials with Blockchain
Martin Záklasník, Veronika Konečná, Oldřich Faldík, Oldřich Trenz, Andrej Gono
26th Annual International Conference Economic Competitiveness and Sustainability 2024
Analysis of how decentralized blockchain storage can address the security and availability weaknesses of centralized micro-credential systems. Proposes a framework for certificate management that eliminates single points of failure and unauthorized access risks.
- 2023 Published
Augmented Reality Manuals: Competition of Mobile Platforms
Andrej Gono, David Procházka, Tomáš Šmerda
PEFnet 2023: 27th European Scientific Conference of Doctoral Students
Side-by-side evaluation of iOS and Android as platforms for AR-based instruction manuals. Compares ARKit and ARCore across tracking quality, scene understanding, developer tooling, and deployment constraints relevant to enterprise maintenance applications.
- 2023 Published
Using Blockchain for Data Verification in the Metaverse
Andrej Gono
Mendel University in Brno
Analysis of blockchain as a data verification and authenticity layer for metaverse platforms. Examines the provenance, ownership, and integrity challenges that arise when physical and virtual worlds share data, and evaluates blockchain-based solutions to each.
Research collaboration
Joint grant projects, national and EU. Pilots in the living lab. Co-authored research on systems with real users. If that sounds like your kind of research, talk to us.
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