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, Pilsen, Czech Republic Faculty of Applied Sciences Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Email: Skala.UWB#$##$#gmail.com University of Defence, Brno, Czech Republic Faculty of Military Technology Dept. of Military Robotics Skala.UNOB#$##$#gmail.com WEB: www.VaclavSkala.eu ORCID: 0000-0001-8886-4281  Erdos No: 4 (MathSciNet) Organizer of the WSCG conferences  since 1992 - http://www.wscg.eu   Editor-in-Chief of Journal of WSCG [J WSCG] ISSN 1213-6972 and Computer Science Research Notes [CSRN] ISSN 2464-4617

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, a 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: 2025-04-02 by: Vaclav Skala