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Martin Macas
Martin Macas
Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague
Regular Member
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Short Biography

Personal

Date of birth: May 11, 1981

Nationality: Czech Republic

 

Education

2005 - 2008: Ph.D. student at the Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech

Technical University in Prague, Technická 2, 166 27, Prague 6, Czech Republic.

1999 - 2005: Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Technická 2, 166

27, Prague 6, Czech Republic. Master Degree in Technical Cybernetics.

 

Employment

2008 - now: Researcher at the Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech

Technical University in Prague, Technická 2, 166 27, Prague 6, Czech Republic..

 

Research Interests

Biomedical signal processing

Nature-inspired methods

Swarm intelligence

 

Awards and Awarded Grants

2012: Physionet/Computers in Cardiology Challenge, Prediction of mortality of intensive care unit patients, achieved 4th place in Event 1 and 3rd place in Event 2.

2006: Award ”Best nature inspired concept” in NiSIS Competition 2006: Soft Sensor for the adaptive Catalyst Monitoring of a Multi-Tube Reactor.

2011-2012: Universities Development Foundation (FRVŠ) 1885/F1a: "Advanced artificial intelligence - innovation of seminars".

2009 - 2011: member of research team solving project MSM 6840770012, "Transdisciplinary Biomedical Engineering Research II".

2005 - 2008 NiSIS Nature-inspired Smart Information Systems, EU FP6 CA, IST.

2006 - 2007: Internal Grant CTU0608413 "The use of particle swarm optimization in biomedical signals processing and analysis".

2005-2006: Universities Development Foundation (FRVŠ) 2812/G3: "Processing and automatic classification of eye movement signals".

Research fellowship

2006 (September-December) Temporary staff member in the School of Design, Engineering and Computing at Bournemouth University.

Teaching skills

Recently: Teaching Assistant in ”Advanced Artificial Intelligence” and ”Artificial Intelligence”.

Supervisor of the bachelor’s/master’s thesis and individual projects: 6 students in total

Former Teaching Assistant in ”Introduction to Biomedical Engineering”, ”Cognitive Processes” and

”Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence”.

List of top 5 publications in the last 5 years

Macaš, M. - Lhotská, L. - Bakštein, E. - Novák, D. - Wild, J. - et al. Wrapper Feature Selection for Small Sample Size Data Driven by Complete Error Estimates In: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. 2012, vol. 108, no. 1, p. 138-150.

Křemen, V. - Lhotská, L. - Macaš, M. - Čihák, R. - Kautzner, J. - et al.: A New Approach to Automated Assessment of Fractionation of Endocardial Electrograms During Atrial Fibrillation. Physiological Measurement. 2008, vol. 29, no. 12, p. 1371-1381.

Macaš, M. - Lhotská, L.: Social Impact and Optimization. International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research. 2008, vol. 4, no. 2, p. 129-134. ISSN 0973-1873..

Macaš, M. - Kužílek, J. - Huptych, M. - Odstrčilík, T.: Linear Bayes Classification for Mortality Prediction. In Computing in Cardiology 2012 [CD-ROM]. New York: IEEE, 2012, p. 1-4. ISSN 0276-6574.

Macaš, M. - Lhotská, L. (supervisor): Opinion Formation Inspired Search Strategies for Feature Selection. [PhD Thesis]. Praha: České vysoké učení technické v Praze, 2012. 122 p.

List of top 5 academic activities during the last 5 years

SmartArt2012 (Student Conference on Smart Grids and Artificial Intelligence) - Organizing committee member, https://ekonom.feld.cvut.cz/smartart

SOCO2012 (International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications) – Organizer of Special Session on Soft Computing Models for Biomedical Signals and Data Processing, http://soco.usal.es