Jan PARALIC

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Full professor in Business Information Systems (2011)

Associate professor in Artificial Intelligence (2004)

Ph.D. degree in Artificial Intelligence (1998)

Professional biography:

February 2020: I represented Slovakia at the EFSA Workshop: Joining Forces at EU Level on the Implementation of AI, Parma, Italy
January 2020: I was included in the list of assessors of the Slovak Accreditation Agency for Higher Education
August 30-31 2018: I gave invited talk at the 2^nd Workshop on Biomedical Information Management: Data-Driven Innovations in Hamburg, Germany
Since August 2018 I am leading the TUK's research team in the Slovak Research and Development Agency project no. APVV-17-0550 - Determinants of increased cardiovascular risk and their prognostic significance analyzed by machine learning in the detection of high-risk individuals, coordinated by prof. Daniel Pella, Faculty of Medicine, P.J. Šafárik University in Košice,
Since August 2018 I am researcher in the Slovak Research and Development Agency project no. APVV-17-0267 - Automated Recognition of Antisocial Behaviour in Online Communities, coordinated by prof. Pavol Návrat, Faculty of Informatics and Information technologies, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
August 2018: Program committee co-chair of the IEEE World Symposium on Digital Intelligence for Systems and Machines, DISA 2018
January 2018: Co-Chair of the 16^th IEEE International Symposium on Applied Machine Intelligence and Informatics, SAMI 2018
Chairman of the Program Committee of the 12th Annual Workshop on Intelligent and Knowledge-Oriented Technologies, WIKT 2017
Since July 2017 I have been coordinating the Slovak Research and Development Agency research project no. APVV-16-0213 - Knowledge-based approaches for intelligent analysis of big data, in cooperation with Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Faculty of Informatics and information Technologies
January 2017: Co-Chair of the 15^th IEEE International Symposium on Applied Machine Intelligence and Informatics, SAMI 2017
Since 2016, I have been leading the Slovak Scientific Grant Agency research project no. 1/0493/16 - Methods and models for data stream analysis
December 2015 - June 2017, I have served as the chair of the Informatics section of the Acta Polytechnica Hungarica Journal (JCR 2015, IF = 0.544)
Chairman of the Program Committee of the 10th Annual Workshop on Intelligent and Knowledge-Oriented Technologies, WIKT 2015
2015 - 2017, I was leading the Slovak Cultural and Educational Grant Agency project No. 025TUKE-4/2015 - Introducing the training of large data analysis
Co-Chair of the 14th IEEE International Symposium on Applied Machine Intelligence and Informatics, SAMI 2016
Since April 2014 I am a member of the permanent working group of the Accreditation Commission (an advisory body to the Government of the Slovak Republic) for the research area 16. Computer science, Automation and Telecommunications.
2014 - 2015 I was leading TUK's research team of a bilateral Czech/Slovak project: Modern informetric methods for the evaluation of scientific research (Slovak Research and Development Agency Nr. SK-CZ-2013-0062), in cooperation with team from Faculty of Applied Sciences, Univ. of West Bohemia, Czech team is led by Assoc. Prof. Dalibor Fiala
June 2013 – June 2018 I was leading the project team: IT tools and services for analysis of various types of processes, Pilot project no. 4 (PP4) within activity 3.1 "Pilot projects in Information and Communication Technologies" of the University Science Park Technicom
Program and organizing committee chair of the 8th Workshop on Intelligent and Knowledge oriented Technologies, WIKT 2013
Since March 2013 I serve as deputy head of the Department of Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence and professional leader of the Centre for Business Information Systems at the same department.
2012 - 2015 I was leading the TUK's research team of EU funded project Urban Sensing (FP7-SME-2012 contract No. 314887), project solved in cooperation with Economical faculty TUK
2012 - 2015 I am leading Slovak Scientific Research Project grant No. 1/1147/12 - Methods for analysis of collaborative processes mediated by information systems
Full professor in Business information systems since November 28, 2011
Program and organizing committee chair of the 6th Workshop on Intelligent and Knowledge oriented Technologies, WIKT 2011
2011 - 2014 I was leading the TUK's research team in APVV project TRA-DICE: Cognitive travelling in digital space of the Web and digital libraries supported by personalized services and social networks (Slovak Research and Development Agency - APVV-0208-10)
2011 - 2013 I was project leader of the Slovak Cultural and Educational Grant Virtual laboratory for business information systems (065TUKE-4/2011)
2010 - 2012 I was leading activity "1.2 Categorization and formalization of knowledge from particular research areas", of the project Information technologies for knowledge transfer (IT4KT) - supported by the Research & Development Operational Program funded by the ERDF (ITMS project code: 26220220123)
2010-2012 I was leading activity "2.3 Support of research focused on information-control and process aspects of knowledge systems", of the project Development of Center for Information and Communication Technologies for Knowledge Systems - supported by the Research & Development Operational Program funded by the ERDF (ITMS project code: 26220120030)
2006 - 2011 I was leading the TUK's research team participating on the FP6 integrated IST project KP-Lab (Knowledge Practices Laboratory)
Program and organizing committee chair of the 4th Workshop on intelligent and knowledge oriented technologies, WIKT 2009
Since 2009 I am head of the newly created Deputy for business information systems at the Dept. of Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, Technical university Kosice
2009 - 2011 responsible researcher for TUKE of the project DMM (Data Mining Meteo) (Slovak Research and Development Agency - VMSP-P-0048-09)
Since 2009 I am head of a newly created division for Business informatics at the Dept. of Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence of the Technical University Kosice
In 2009 I organized together with my colleague Dr. Andreas Rauber from Vienna University of Technology 9th Workshop on Data Analysis, WDA'2009
2007 - 2009 responsible researcher of the project Support for knowledge creation processes (Slovak Research and Development Agency - RPEU-0011-06)
Program and organizing committee chair of the 2nd Workshop on Intelligent and Knowledge oriented Technologies, WIKT 2007
2007 - 2009 responsible researcher for TUKE of the project Semantic composition of web and grid services (Slovak Research and Development Agency - APVV-0391-06)
2007 - 2009 I was project leader deputy of a Slovak research project Nr. 1/4074/07 Methods for annotation, search, creation, and accessing knowledge employing metadata for semantic description of knowledge
In 2008 I organized together with my colleague Dr. Andreas Rauber from Vienna University of Technology 8th Workshop on Data Analysis, WDA'2008
I participated on the preparation of new study programs in Business informatics on our faculty in all three levels of the study. Based on successful accreditation we run the study program Business informatics at the Bachelor level since 2005, at the Master level since 2008 and at the PhD level we plan to open the study in 2010.
In 2006 I organized together with my colleague Dr. Andreas Rauber from Vienna University of Technology 7th Workshop on Data Analysis, WDA'2006
I was program committee chair of the 5th annual Czech-Slovak scientific conference Znalosti (Knowledge) 2006, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, February 1-3, 2006
February 1st, 2005 - February 28, 2013 I served as the head of the Centre for Information Technologies a common research Centre of Institute of Informatics, Slovak academy of Sciences Bratislava and Technical University Kosice
2005 - 2006 I was project leader on the Slovak side of a bilateral research project Text mining for information extraction and semantic search with the University of Regensburg
In February 2005 I organized 4th Czech-Slovak scientific conference Znalosti (Knowledge) 2005 in Stara Lesna, High Tatras, Slovakia, February 9-11, 2005
June 2004 I organized together with my colleague Dr. Andreas Rauber from Vienna University of Technology already 5th international student Workshop on Data Analysis WDA'2004
April 2004 - habilitation in Artificial Intelligence (habilitation lecture on theme Knowledge Discovery in Databases and Texts)
2004 - 2006 I was assistant manager of a Slovak research project Nr. 1/1060/04 (Document Classification and Annotation for the Semantic Web)
2001 - 2003 I was assistant manager of the successful Slovak research project Nr. 1/8131/01 (Knowledge technologies for information acquisition and retrieval )
2001 - 2004 I was responsible for our participation in the OntoWeb (Ontology-based information exchange for knowledge management and electronic commerce) IST Project - Thematic network
2001 - 2002 I led together with my colleague Dr. Andreas Rauber from Vienna University of Technology bilateral Slovak-Austrian research project TEXAS: TEXt AnalisyS. Within this project 2nd international student Workshop on Data Analysis WDA'2001 has been organized.
2000 - 2003 I worked on the international research project WEBOCRACY: Web Technologies Supporting Direct Participation in Democratic Processes (European Union IST Program)
During year 2000 together with my colleague Dr. Andreas Rauber from Vienna University of Technology we successfully led bilateral Slovak-Austrian research project CLUE: CLUstering Evaluation. Within this project 1st international student Workshop on Data Analysis WDA'2000 has been organized.
2000 - 2001 I was responsible for our participation as a network node in the ILPNet2 (Network of Excellence in Inductive Logic Programming, funded by the European Commission under INCO Program)
I organized 3rd IEEE international conference on intelligent engineering systems, INES’99, Stará Lesná, Slovakia
December 1998 - February 2001: I worked on a successful international research project KnowWeb: Web in Support of Knowledge Management in Company (European Union ESPRIT Program)
October 1998 - September 2001: I was responsible researcher of a succesful international research project GOAL: Geographic Information On-Line Analysis (GIS - Data Warehouse Integration) for Technical University of Kosice. Within this project a software prototype called KDD Package for support of the whole knowledge discovery process has been designed and implemented.
April 1998: Successful defense of my Ph.D. theses
February 1998: Successful finish of the ENCODE project which I worked on since its beginning.
Since January 1998: I have been working as assistant professor in the Department of Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence at the Technical University of Kosice
July 1997 - November 1997: Military service defined by law
Mai 1997: I finished my Ph.D.-theses: "Solving Scheduling Applications Using Constraint Logic Programming" (in Slovak)
October 1996 - December 1997: I worked as researcher in the Department of Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence at the Technical University of Kosice
March 1995: I start working on my first international research project (ENCODE: ENvironment for COnfiguration DEsign - mainly work on the Constraint satisfaction Module)
October 1994 - July 1995: study stay at the ECRC (European Computer-Industry Research Centre) in Munich, working with Constraint Logic Programming (using ECLiPSe).
Since October 1993: I have been teaching various courses at the Dept. of Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence
October 1992: I started my Ph.D. study in the Dept. of Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence at the Technical University of Kosice.
1992: I finished my study at the Technical University of Kosice with the rector price for excellent study results.
October 1990 - June 1991: study stay at the Technical University of Vienna, Institute of Information Systems (Prof. Gottlob).
1987: I started my university studies at the Technical University of Kosice.

Jan Paralic (Jan.Paralic at tuke.sk)