Vladimír KOTALA

Education:

• GMK Bilovec - special high school with extended education of mathematics and natural sciences, 1988-1992.
  
• Ing. degree in Computer Science , Technical University Brno, 1992-1997.
  
• internal PhD student at Technical University Brno, Faculty of Electrotechnical Engineering and Computer Science (Signal processing, biomedicine engineering), 1997-?
  
• PhD student at the Institute of Scientific Instruments, Academy of Sciences of the CR, NMR Division (Group of Inverse and Optimization Methodologies), 1997-?
  

Research interests:

• digital signal processing
  
• Bayesian statistics
  
• programming (GUIs, OOP, numerical calculations, field solutions and visualisation)
  

Key-topics of PhD-Thesis (preliminary):

• Magnetic Resonance beyond inhomogeneity, instability and noise limits
• computerized identifications, deconvolutions, restorations and visualizations of non-ideal signals and spectra in MR
• Evolutionary and Bayesian methodologies

Publications:

1. V.Kotala: "Visualisation of Bayesian statistics applicated to NMR data using wxWindows libraries", Diploma Thesis, Technical University Brno, Brno, June 1997 (in Czech)
   

Hobbies:

• sport (skiing, swimming, cycling, jogging, ju-jitsu)
  
• music (everything except modern '120 beats/min' dance music)
  
• literature (K.Vonnegut Jr., J.Heller, J.Steinbeck, N.Mailer, etc.)
  
• origami (ancient Japan art of paper modelling)
  
• OOP (C++, SmallTalk, Java)
  
• GUI programming (wxWindows - free portable GUI C++ libraries)