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

c/o 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/ Organiser of the WSCG conferences  since 1992 - http://www.wscg.eu   Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of WSCG

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 Medal for Research, University of West Bohemia

Member of Editorial Boards

• Integrated Computer Aided Engineering, IOS Press, USA, ISSN 1069-2509, IF=4.904 (2019)
• Mathematics, MDPI, Switzerland, ISSN ISSN 2227-739, IF=1.746 (2021)
• Computers & Graphics, Elsevier (Pergamon Press), ISSN 0097-8493, IF=1.302 (2019)
• Machine Graphics and Vision, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland, ISSN 1230-0535 (Scopus)
• Journal of WSCG, Czech Republic, ISSN 1213-6972 [Editor-in-Chief] (Scopus)
• Computer Science Research Notes (CSRN), Czech Republic, ISSN 2464-4617 [Editor-in-Chief](Scopus)
• Egyptian Computer Science Journal, Egypt, ISSN 1110-2586
• The Russian Automobile and Higway Industry Journal, Russia, ISSN 2071-7296

Recently

• Graphics and Visual Computing, Elsevier (Pergamon Press), ISSN 2666-6294 
• Computers and Graphics, Elsevier (Pergamon Press), ISSN 0097-8493
• The Visual Computer, Springer Verlag, Germany, ISSN 0178-2789  
• Computer Graphics Forum, Blackwell Ltd., U.K., ISSN 0167-7055
• The International Journal of Virtual Reality, IPI Press, USA
• 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 FELLOW
• EUROGRAPHICS Association (Eurographics Executive Committee - recently)
• IPC member of several International Conferences, Workshops and Symposia Boards every year

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
• HCI-Europe - Human Computer Interaction - organized since 

Recently

• Object Oriented Technologies - International Conferences - organized since 2003
  (recently as .NET Technologies)

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

• Selected Industrial and Research Partners on projects
• 1994 - 2002 member of DIPRO Prague Plc. Advisory Board
• 1993 - 94 CEO, 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

• Meshless (meshfree) scattered data interpolation & approximation
• Data & Information Visualization
• Computer Graphics
• Algorithms & Data Structures
• Mathematics for Computer Graphics

Responsible for courses 

• Fundamentals of Computer Graphics - ZPG
• Algorithms for Computer Graphics - APG
• Data Visualization - VID
• Information Visualization - VINF

Information for Czech students, only

• University of West Bohemia [ ZPG | APG | VID | VINF | OP | BSc.& MSc.Thesis ]
• VSB-Technical University, Ostrava [ SPG-VSB ]
  
• Ostrava University, Ostrava [ SPG-OSU ]

Other items

• Professorship (Prof.) - Submitted material (in Czech) [6MB], Additional supplement (in Czech) [2,4 MB]
• Habilitation (Doc.) [Reader] - Clipping Algorithms (in Czech) [4,5MB], 1989
• PhD Thesis (CSc.) - Contribution to Relation Implementation in Relation Database, 1978

Contact

Last update: 2021-09-22 by: Vaclav Skala