Karoly Skala#
Karolj Skala is Scientific Advisor at Ruđer Bošković Institute and Profesor at the University of Zagreb
CV of Professor Dr. Karoly Skala
Education
- 1974 - Graduate from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering
- 1974 - Employment at the Ruder Boskovic Institute
- 1979 - Master's degree in electrical engineering in Zagreb
- 1983 - PhD in Electrical Engineering in Zagreb
- 1983 - Head of the Laboratory of Electronics at the Institute Ruder Boskovic, a former Department LAIR
- 1997 - Head of the Laboratory for Optoelectronics and hypermedia systems in the Department of Electronics RBI
- 1999 - Elected advisor RBI
- 2001 - Appointed Head of the Computer Center RBI
- 2003 - Head of the Center for Informatics and Computing RBI
- 2003 - Appointedd Full Professor at the Faculty of Graphic Arts in Zagreb
Fields of science
- Wireless Communications
Specific research interests
- Optoelectronic systems
- Distributed systems
Projects
Conducting national research projects and programs:
- Visual interfaces and technology transfer knowledge, 1996-2002
- Detection of non-stationary sources and distributed information processing, 2002-2006
- Methods of scientific visualization 2007-2010
Program:
- Distributed Computing and Visualization 2007-2013 (4 projects, 4 institutions, 2 Zagreb, Rijeka 1, Split 1)
Technological projects
- Head STIRP the CRO GRID applications 2004-2007
- CRO GRID Infrastructure, STRIP 43/2002, coordinator of the IRB on the project, from 2004 to 2007
Management of IT projects
- Network control and IC management of cluster computer, IT project, MST 2003
- participant in the European Community project COST 254 and COST 276 in Croatian
Bilateral projects:
- Development of New Technologies Grid for Advanced Scientific and Engineering Application, Institute for Software Science of the University of Vienna, Austria 2004
- Inter Institutional testbed for e-Science applications, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, 2006
- Parallel Application Development on Grid, SZTAKI, Budapest, HU-CRO bilateral project, the 2005th Leading EU FP6 / 7 projects
- Grid Enabled Infrastructure Development, EU F6 Contract No: 002356 Commission of the European Communities, Brussels, 2004-2006.
- CenVis - Centre for Scientific Visualisation, EU FP6, 2007-2009
- IVAB - Interactive Visual Analysis of Bio-signals, the EU FP6, 2007
- SEE-GRID - South Eastern European Grid-enabled eInfrastructure Development, 2004-2006 EU FP6
- SEE-GRID-2 - South Eastern European Grid-enabled eInfrastructure Development 2, 2006-2008
- SEE GRID SCI - SEE-GRID eInfrastructure for regional eScience, EU FP7, 2008-2010
- DARIAH - Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, EU FP7, 2008-2010
- EGEE-II - Enabling Grids for E-science-II, EU FP6, 2006-2008
- EGEE-III - Enabling Grids for E-science-III, EU FP7, 2008-2010
- AIS DC - Application Information Services for Distributed Computing Environments, EU FP7, 2011-2015
Awards and honors
- Medal Arany Janos Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2010
- Award INNOVATION SEE 2010
- Award Director IRB 2010
- Medal for achievement in teaching College of Business Administration, 2011
Memberships
- Member of the Croatian Academy of Engineering
- Associate member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Member of Public Body of Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Member of the Scientific Council for research infrastructure at the Academy
- Executive board of MIPRO
- European Research Infrastructure Consortium, National Representative
- EU FP7 Research Infrastructures Programme Committee Member, National Representative