Tomas
Skopal
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| Name: | Tomáš Skopal (Tom\'a\v{s} in TeX) |
| Birth: | May 22nd 1978, Olomouc, Czech Republic |
Academic Qualifications:
- Doc.
(2007, habilitation - associate professor) in Computer Science from
Charles University in Prague,
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
thesis: Similarity Search in Multimedia Databases reviewers: Gonzalo Navarro, Pavel Zezula, Karel Richta -
Ph.D. (2004) in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
from
VŠB-Technical University
of Ostrava,
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
thesis: Metric Indexing in Information Retrieval supervisor: Václav Snášel reviewers: Jaroslav Pokorný, Peter Vojtáš, Pavel Zezula - RNDr. (2004) in Computer Science from Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
- M.S. (2001) in Computer Science from Palacký University in Olomouc, Faculty of Science
- B.S. (1999) in Computer Science from Palacký University in Olomouc, Faculty of Science
Appointment Summary:
- since 2011 - deputy head of Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague
- since 2008 - associate professor at Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Software Engineering
- 2005 - 2007 - assistant professor at Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Software Engineering
- Sep-Dec 2004 - researcher at Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Software Engineering
- 2001 - 2004 - internal Ph.D. student at VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer Science
- 1998 - 2002 - external software developer/analyst/consultant at ESPACE Morava s.r.o.
Fellowships & Sabbaticals:
- 2011 - 3-months research stay at DCC, University of Chile, Santiago
- 2009 - 2-week research stay at DCC, University of Chile, Santiago
Projects: listed on an extra page
Publications: more than 60 papers in journals and conference proceedings (listed on an extra page)
Invited talks & tutorials:
- Apr 11-16, 2011, tutorial, "Nonmetric Similarity Search Problems in Very Large Collections", ICDE 2011
- Mar 18th, 23rd, 2011, invited lecture, "Introduction to Similarity Search in Multimedia Databases", University of San Luis, Argentina & DCC, University of Chile
- Sept 18th, 2010, invited talk, "Where are you heading, metric access methods? A provocative survey.", SISAP 2010
- June 3rd, 2010, invited talk, "Indexing similarity for efficient search in multimedia databases", Center for Machine Perception, Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University
Awards:
- 2011 - paper "Ptolemaic Indexing of the Signature Quadratic Form Distance" presented at SISAP 2011 has been invited to Information Systems Journal (Elsevier)
- 2010 - paper "Improving the Similarity Search of Tandem Mass Spectra using Metric Access Methods" presented at SISAP 2010 has been invited to the Journal of Discrete Algorithms (Elsevier)
- 2008 - paper "On Reinsertions in M-tree" presented at SISAP 2008 has been invited to the Journal of Discrete Algorithms (Elsevier)
- 2006 - awarded by Bernard Bolzano Foundation in Computer science (contest paper: "On Fast Non-metric Search By Metric Access Methods", EDBT 2006)
- 2006 - paper "On Fast Non-metric Search By Metric Access Methods" presented at EDBT 2006 has been invited to ACM TODS (Transactions on Database Systems)
- 2003 - awarded by VLDB East Europe support program, VLDB 2003, Berlin, Germany
- 2003 - awarded for excellent PhD study by the dean of Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava
Membership in Research Organizations:
- chair of SIRET research group
- IEEE member
- member of scientific council at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava
Membership in Editorial Boards:
- Guest Editor of Information Systems (Elsevier), Special Issue: SISAP 2009
- International Journal of Information Technology and Database Systems (International Sciences Press)
Membership in Conference Committees:
- international events:
- PC member of ADBIS 2011, Vienna, Austria (procs. as LNCS volume, Springer-Verlag)
- PC member of SISAP 2011, Lipari, Italy (procs. ACM)
- PC member of ICML 2010, Haifa, Israel
- PC member of SISAP 2010, Istanbul, Turkey (procs. ACM)
- PC co-chair of SISAP 2009, Prague, Czech Republic (procs. published by IEEE)
- PC member of SISAP 2008, Cancún, México (procs. published by IEEE)
- PC member of SERA 2008, Prague, Czech Republic (procs. published by IEEE and Springer)
- PC member of ENC 2007, Morelia, México (procs. published by IEEE)
- PC member of workshop DMUC 2007 at Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering Conference (procs. published by IEEE)
- PC member of ICDE 2007 (procs. published by IEEE)
- PC member of ECIR 2006 (procs. as LNCS volume, Springer-Verlag)
- PC member of SYRCoDIS 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009
- external reviewer at EDBT 2009, ER 2008, SOFSEM 2005, 2006, 2007, ADBIS 2005
- Czech (or Slovak) events:
Paper/project reviews for:
- Multimedia Tools and Applications (journal - Springer)
- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (journal - Springer)
- Journal of Real-Time Image Processing (Springer)
- IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
- ACM Transactions on Information Systems
- ACM Transactions on Database Systems
- Computer Science Review (journal - Elsevier)
- Data & Knowledge Engineering (journal - Elsevier)
- ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics
- European Journal of Combinatorics (Elsevier)
- Computer (journal - IEEE)
- Information Sciences (journal - Elsevier)
- Computing and Informatics (journal - Slovak Academy of Sciences)
- The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
- Czech Science Foundation (GAČR)
- Chilean National Science and Technology Research Fund (FONDECYT)
Graduated Ph.D. students:
- Jakub Lokoč, topic:
Reviews of Ph.D. theses:
- David Novák,