Tomas Bata University in Zlín

Expertise:

• Systems Identification
• Adaptive Control Systems
• Predictive Control Systems
• Time-delay Systems
• Computer-aided Design for Control Systems

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Curriculum vitae

Education

• 1966 – M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology, Czechoslovakia. Masters´ thesis: Automatic draw-off conveyer for rubber extruder
• 1973 – Postgraduate Studies in Automatic Control Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Automatic Control, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czechoslovakia. Project thesis: Process Control of a Plastics Extruder
• 1982 – Ph.D. in Technical Cybernetics, Institute of Technical Cybernetics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. Ph.D. thesis: Adaptive Control of a Plastics Extrusion Process
• 1991– Habilitation in Technical Cybernetics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology, Czechoslovakia. Habilitation thesis: Algorithms of Self-tuning PID Controllers
• 2000 – Professor in Process Control, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

Internships and study stays

Study stays:

• Ruhr - University of Bochum, Germany, 1994 - 3 weeks (Invited Lecturer, Report)
• Chalmers University of Goteborg, Sweden, 1994 - 1 week (Invited Lecturer)
• University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U. K., 1998, 2 weeks (Invited Lecturer)
• Politecnico di Milano, Italy, 2002 - 1 week

Short visits to foreign Universities:

• Catholic University of Louvain Belgium, 1993 (Invited Lecturer)
• University of Ghent, Belgium, 1993
• Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, 1993
• University of Brussels, Belgium, 1993
• University of Stuttgart, Germany, 1993
• Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, 1993
• University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Germany, 2001 (Invited Lecturer), 2002
• University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U. K., 2003 (Invited Lecturer, preparing a book for Springer-Verlag, London)
• Politecnico di Milano, Italy, 2003 (Lectures – Socrates/Erasmus)
• University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Germany, 2003 Socrates/Erasmus Lectures
• Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Portugal, 2005 (Socrates/Erasmus Lectures)

Process of employment

• 1959 - 1961 – Tesla Rožnov, worker.
• 1967 - 1969 - Research Institute of Rubber and Plastic Technology, researcher.
• 1969 – 2000 - Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Technology, Assistant Professor, from 1991 Associated Professor, from 2000 Professor, 1990 – 2000 Deputy Head of the Department, 1994 - 1996 – Vice-Dean for Science and Research.
• 2001 – to data – Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Faculty of Technology, from 2006 Faculty of Applied Informatics, Department of Process Control, Professor, Deputy Head of the Department, 2001 - 2004 – Vice-Rector for Research Activities, Tomas Bata University in Zlín.

Membership of expert organizations

Membership of scientific societies and organizations:

• Member of the Czech Chemical Engineering Society, from 1983.
• Member of the Czech Society of Cybernetics and Informatics, from 1994.
• Member of the Technical Committee on Chemical Process Control of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), from 1993 to 2010.

Membership of bodies

• Member of the Scientific Board of the Faculty of Applied Informatics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, from 2006.
• Member of the Scientific Board of Tomas Bata University in Zlín, from 2001 to 2007.
• Member of the Scientific Board of the Faculty of Technology, Brno University of Technology (from 2001: part of Tomas Bata University in Zlín), from 1992 to 2006.
• Member of the Doctoral Studies Board, “Technical Cybernetics”, Faculty of Applied Informatics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, from 2000.
• Member of the Doctoral Studies Board, “Engineering Informatics”, Faculty of Applied Informatics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, from 2000 - to data.
• Member of the Doctoral Studies Board, “Control Engineering and Robotics”, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, from 2002 - to data.
• Member of the Doctoral Studies Board, “Manufacturing Systems and Processes”, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Liberec, from 2002 - to data.
• Member of Sub-discipline Commission 102 “Electrotechnics and Cybernetics”, Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, from 2001 to 2006.
• Member the Assessment Committee of the Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, from 2009 - to data.

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