Ivan Zelinka is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Ostrava (VSB-TU), Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He graduated at Technical University in Brno (1995 – MSc.), UTB in Zlin (2001 – PhD) and has been working in Technical University in Brno (2004 – Associate Professor) and VSB-TU (2010 – Professor). Before academic career, he was an employed as TELECOM technician, computer specialist (HW+SW) and Commercial Bank (computer and LAN supervisor).
During his career at UTB, he established seven courses in computer science. He has been guest lecturer in many universities in many EU countries plus and was the keynote speaker at the Global Conference on Power, Control and Optimization in Bali, Indonesia (2009), Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems (2011), Calkidiki, Greece and IWCFTA 2012, Dalian China. His research focuses on unconventional algorithms and cybersecurity. Prof. Zelinka is a leader of three projects in fundamental research (Czech grant agency GAČR) and co-director of FRVŠ – Laboratory of Parallel Computing. He is participating in two EU projects (FP5 – RESTORM), supervisor (FP7 – PROMOEVO) of the Czech team and supervisor of international research (founded by the TACR agency) focused on the security of mobile devices (Czech – Vietnam). Ivan Zelinka is a member of British Computer Society, Editor of Springer book series: Emergence, Complexity and Computation (http://www.springer.com/series/10624), Editorial board of Saint Petersburg State University Studies in Mathematics, international program committees of various conferences and international journals. He is co-founders of TC IEEE on big data http://ieeesmc.org/about-smcs/history/2014-archives/44-about-smcs/history/2014/technical-committees/204-big-data-computing/. He is also head of research group NAVY http://navy.cs.vsb.cz.