Professor Tomas Zelinka
Education:
Professor of Informatics at the Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague,
PhD in Experimental Physics at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences,
Master degree in Cybernetics and Computer Sciences at the Czech Technical University in Prague.
Employment:
2005 - Czech Technical University in Prague
Lectures - basic and advanced lectures in area of communications sciences, specific telecommunication solutions for the Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), telecommunications services management etc.,
R&D - theoretical background of the specific telecommunications solutions dedicated for the ITS, Electronic Fee Collection (EFC) acting as well as the national representative in ISI/CEN, ETC systems Value Added Services (VAS), vehicle On Board Units architecture, ITS and its security requirements etc.
1993 – 2005 Communications business
New products R&D, business development for products like VSAT data services or IP based (VoIP) alternative solution for the global voice communications networking designed for countries of the CEEMEA region, working with EuroTel / Nextel / Global One (i.e. Sprint Int., France Telecom, Deutsche Telekom) etc.,
And simultaneously acting as the external teacher and mentor at the Faculty of transport sciences of the CTU in Prague
1976 – 1993 Geophysical Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences
Experimental laboratory and observatory methods in geophysics, studies of the variations and drift of the Earth magnetic field, data communication solutions within international geomagnetic observatory system (INTERMAG),
Computer modeling of magnetic material structures with on-line laboratory identification, laboratory study of the magnetic properties of rocks,
1972 – 1976 Industrial R&D
Automatic control systems for the technological processes – CNC (Computer Numerical Control),
Data communications and computer based control in the heavy technological processes,
Published above 120 scientific papers, monographs, books and University textbooks in physics, informatics, ITS, transport telematics and telecommunications.
Telecommunication systems designs mostly adopt one of two following alternative approaches. In the first alternative designers minimize performance expectations with goal to reduce system architecture complexity. In the other case architect accepts the full system complexity, sometimes with even overestimating expectations. Subsequent systems implementations lead in the first case to future system evolution and in the other case to the reductions of unneeded functionalities. In representative number of cases early stages systems reduction released reasonable conditions for their future penetration. However, initially reduced system parameters can cause genetic system limits with no potential to resolve it in the system future development. Such situation was already identified in area of vehicles ad hock networks information exchange where recent communication strategies reached genetic limits of globally accepted telecommunication system and the new trends will most probably lead to its heterogeneous symbiosis with another much more robust telecommunications system.
