Ivo Vondrák
Ivo Vondrák (born April 15, 1959 in Ostrava ) is a Czech engineering scientist and was rector of the Technical University of Ostrava . Since November 11, 2016 he has been the hejtman ( governor ) of the Moravskoslezský kraj .
Life
Vondrák has been working at the TU Ostrava since 1989. He also taught at the Faculty of Information Science at the Palacký University in Olomouc . In 1998 he was appointed professor of engineering. He is the founder of the educational program in the field of information technology at VSB - Ostrava University of Technology. Since 2003 he has been Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (FEI). From 2000 to 2010 he was visiting professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Austrian Montan University Leoben .
From February 1, 2010 to November 10, 2016, he was the successor to Tomáš Čermák, Rector of the Technical University of Ostrava. He was released from this office after his appointment as governor. He was succeeded on September 1, 2017 by Václav Snášel .
Ivo Vondrák has been married since 1985.
Act
In the USA, he worked on research programs for software research labs at Texas Instruments in Dallas and as a consultant for the SBIR project "Dynamic Composable Simulations for Robotic Behaviors" for the United States Department of Defense. He was the deputy director of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (AV ČR) for a project on logic and artificial intelligence for multi-agent systems .
Ivo Vondrák is involved in the IT4Innovations project, with which one of the world's largest supercomputer centers is to be built at the TU Ostrava.
He was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the FEI, the Scientific Advisory Board of the VSB-TU Ostrava and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Faculty of Computer Science at the Technical University of Brno . He has published ten books and over 130 scientific papers and specialist articles.
honors and awards
- "Manažer odvětví" (2005)
- "Person of the Czech Telecommunications and Computer Science" (2007)
Web links
- Literature and other media by and about Ivo Vondrák in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
- Ivo Vondrák's website (Czech)
- List of publications (Czech)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vondrák, Ivo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech engineer, computer scientist and university president |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ostrava |