prof. Ing. Vaclav Skala, CSc.

Fellow of the Eurographics Association

Motto: "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
Albert Einstein

University of West Bohemia Faculty of Applied Sciences Department of Computer Science and Engineering Head of the Center of Computer Graphics and Visualization http://Graphics.zcu.cz VSB-Technical University Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of Informatics

Awards and Honors

• 2010 - FELLOW of the Eurographics Association, 
            Fellow Cerificate, Editorial note of Computers&Graphics, Elsevier
• 2009 - Memorial Medal, University of West Bohemia
• 2006 - Memorial Certificate for Research, University of West Bohemia
• 2001 - Outstanding Professor for Research Medal, University of West Bohemia

Member of

• Scientific Council of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava

Education

• 1996 - Prof., Computer Science, Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic, Prague
• 1989 - Doc., Computer Science, Faculty of Applied Sciences (habilitation),
  Univ. of West Bohemia, Plzen
• 1988 - Doc., Computer Science, Ministry of Education of the Czechoslovakia, Prague
• 1981 - CSc. (PhD.), Computer Science, Faculty of Electrical Engineering,
  Czech Technical University, Prague
• 1975 - Ing. (MSc. Eng.), Technical Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering,
  Institute of Technology, Plzen

Industrial Experience

• 1994 - 2002 member of DIPRO Prague Plc. Advisory Board
• 1993 - 94 director of DIPRO Prague Plc. Company
• 1989 - 93 director of SOFTINVENT, private company
• 1975 - 89 research & development for Skoda Plc., Plzen,
• 1987 - 89 research & development for Teplotechna Plc., Teplice

Research topics

• Computer Graphics
• Algorithms & Data Structures
• Data & Information Visualization
• Mathematics for Computer Graphics

 Responsible for courses 

• Fundamentals of Computer Graphics - ZPG
• Algorithms for Computer Graphics - APG
• Data and Information Visualization - VID
• Advanced Computer Graphics - ACG

Information for Czech students, only       

• University of West Bohemia [ ZPG | APG | VID | OP | BSc.& MSc.Thesis ]

Other activities

Chair or Co-Chair

• WSCG - International Conferences in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision
  (recently Winter School of Computer Graphics) - organized since 1992
• GraVisMa - Computer Graphics, Vision and Mathematics - organized since 2009

Member of Editorial Boards

• The Visual Computer, Springer Verlag, Germany, ISSN 0178-2789 
• Computers & Graphics, Elsevier (Pergamon Press), ISSN 0097-8493
• Machine Graphics and Vision, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland, ISSN 1230-0535
• Journal of WSCG, Czech Republic, ISSN 1213-6972
  [Editor-in-Chief]
• The International Journal of Virtual Reality, IPI Press, USA

Recently

• Computer Graphics Forum, Blackwell Ltd., U.K., ISSN 0167-7055
• Journal of .NET Technologies, Czech Republic, ISSN 1201-2108
  [Editor-in-Chief]
• High Performance Computer Graphics, Multimedia and Visualization, U.K.
• Journal of Object Oriented Technologies, Czech Republic, ISSN 1213-6272
  [Editor-in-Chief]

Member of

• EUROGRAPHICS Association & Eurographics Executive Committee
• Computer Graphics Society
• ACM SIGGRAPH
• IEEE
  
  IPC member of several International Conferences, Workshops and Symposia Boards every year

Contact

Last update: 2011-09-10 by: Vaclav Skala