I have known Tomas personally as I did my PhD at the same department (and with the same advisor) and we shared an office for some time before he went to the Purdue postdoc. We've only met a few times since, with other alumni.

BTW, some ideas from his PhD research are used in mmtests benchmark results processing for detecting kernel regressions - https://github.com/gormanm/mmtests/blame/06f45d754e5a74c0...