prof. Zdeněk Hanzálek of Industrial Informatics Group

Detailed presentation of research projects and results of Department of Industrial Informatics, with focus on potential fields of collaboration with Bordeaux INP.

Biography:

Zdenek Hanzalek graduated in Electrical Engineering at the Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague in 1990. He obtained his PhD degree in Industrial Informatics from the Universite Paul Sabatier Toulouse and PhD degree in Control Engineering from the CTU. He worked on optimization of parallel algorithms at LAAS CNRS - Laboratoire d'Analyse et d'Architecture des Systèmes in Toulouse (1992 to 1997) and on discrete event dynamic systems at LAG INPG - Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (1998 to 2000). He founded the Industrial Informatics Department dealing with scheduling, embedded system design, combinatorial optimization, real-time control systems and industrial communication protocols. He was appointed Full Professor at the Czech Technical University in 2012.

Zdenek coordinated one EU project, several national projects and one project funded by the US Navy. He was active in many EU research projects (e.g. ARTIST2 European network of excellence, DEMANES, SESAMO). Key solutions of this research were licensed among others to Freescale and EATON. He acquired and managed many industrial contracts (e.g. Skoda, UniControls, UNIS, AZD, Volkswagen, Rockwell, Air Navigation Services, EATON, Porsche). He was appointed Full Professor at the Czech Technical University in 2012.

Zdenek has supervised 17 Ph.D. students and currently he is supervising 5 Ph.D. students. He is teaching a master’s course on Combinatorial Optimization with 120 students per year. Zdenek is currently a head of Industrial Informatics Department at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics, CTU.

He is author or co-author of more than 35 journal papers and many conference papers. He has got approximately 400 citations in SCI and his SCI Hirsch index is equal to 11. He chaired or co-chaired several international conferences (MISTA, EUROSYS, ECRTS, WPDRTS). Two of his scheduling algorithms for time-triggered communication protocols were awarded Excellent Research Results in Technical Sciences of the Czech Republic. In 2018, his team won the Formula 1/10 Autonomous Racing Competition organized by University of Pennsylvania.

Besides this, Zdenek acted as the founder of the Mechatronic Group, part of the Porsche Engineering Services in Prague. Under his leadership, the Group grew up into a respectable facility staffed with 16 developers with the core expertise in software development. Zdenek left, after 3 years of service, on his own accord as he decided to take on new challenging activities in research with a wider scope of industrial partners. He overtook a leadership of Merica company in 2013. He was one of the founders of this company in 2006, which is involved in the embedded systems and the optimization tools for production and personnel scheduling.

Email:

Address:Jugoslávských partyzánů 1580, Prague 6, A-514b, Prague, Czech Republic

prof. Eric Grivel of IMS - UMR CNRS 5218, Bordeaux University - INP Bordeaux

Presenting the Bordeaux INP, the University of Bordeaux; their education programmes and active research groups. Exploring possible avenues and areas of collaboration, academic, research and industrial.

Biography:

Eric Grivel received the diploma of engineer in electronics and the Ph.D. degree in signal processing from the University of Bordeaux. Currently, he is Professor at ENSEIRB-MATMECA, Bordeaux INP, France. He also belongs to the Signal and Image Research Group at IMS Laboratory. His research interests include the design of signal processing approaches, from recursive estimation methods (including Kalman filtering and its variants, H-infinity filtering, particle filter, multiple-model approaches, etc. as well as Bayesian non-parametric methods) to time-frequency analysis. The algorithms are then mainly applied in speech processing, mobile communication systems, including radiocognitive, GPS navigation, and radar processing.

Email:

Address:Talence, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France