Pavel Zezula

Biographical Note

Dr. Pavel Zezula received the M. Sc degree and the Ph. D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University of Brno in 1972 and 1986, respectively. He has a permanent position as a Senior Scientist at the Center of Information Services of Technical University, Brno where he has been working since 1972. He also worked as a Visiting Professor at the IEI, National Research Council, Pisa and the University of Bologna, Italy, for three years. He was the leader of a national research project aimed at research and development of a relational data base management system for hierarchical data structures from 1976 to 1980. He also worked as an external collaborator of ESPRIT Project No. 28, MULTOS (Multimedia Office Server), ESPRIT II Project No. 3070, FIDE (Formally Integrated Data Environment), and ESPRIT III Project No. 9141, HERMES (Foundations of High Performance Multimedia Information Management Systems). He presents advanced courses on database systems and storage structures at the Technical University of Brno. His current research interests include storage structures and indexing mechanisms for multimedia and object-oriented databases, parallel data processing, and performance modelling.


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