Ján Paralič
I am a professor at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics Technical University of Košice. I am also chairperson of the TUKE Accreditation Committee. Consultation hours: Monday 14:00 – 16:00
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teaching
PhD-students
projects
conferences
I
am leading lectures in the following subjects:
Winter semester:
- Knowledge management
(information in Slovak)
- Knowledge discovery
(information in Slovak)
Summer semester:
- Introduction to business
information systems (information in Slovak)
- Scheduling and logistics
(information in Slovak)
- Current
trends in business information systems (information in Slovak)
Final thesis:
- Bachelor thesis (information
in Slovak)
- Master thesis (1st
year) (information in Slovak)
- Master thesis (2nd
year) (information in Slovak)
My
PhD-students:
Previous PhD-students:
1.
Assoc.Prof.
Ing. Martin Sarnovský, PhD. – associate
professor and deputy head of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence
2.
Assoc.Prof.
Ing. František Babič, PhD. – associate
professor at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Vice-Dean
for Development and External relations at our Faculty
3.
Ing. Zoltán Ďurčík, PhD. – SAP Consultant
at VSE Holding a.s.
4.
Ing. Gabriel Tutoky, PhD. – Senior Software Developer, Architect at NNG LLC
5.
Ing.
Jozef Wagner, PhD. – Business Consultant,
Software Engineer, AI, Clojure
6.
Ing. Martin Repka, PhD. – Engineering Manager/Head of IT at
Powertica, Prague
7.
Ing. Adela Tušanová, PhD. – ServiceNow Consultant/Business Analyst at
Accenture
8.
Ing. Cecília Havrilová, PhD. – Software Engineering Manager at Caterpillar Inc.
9.
Ing.
Mgr. Peter Koncz, PhD. – Senior Software Architect at NESS Košice
10.
Ing.
Alexandra Péliová (Lukáčová), PhD. – Consultant at Adastra, Bratislava
11.
Ing.
Miroslava Nyulásziová (Muchová), PhD. – assistant professor at the Department for Applied Mathematics
and Business Informatics, Faculty
of Economics at our university
12.
Ing. Michal Vadovský, PhD. – Data Scientist at Slovenská Sporiteľňa
13.
Ing. Zuzana Pella, PhD. – researcher in the Center of
Simulator and Virtual Medicine
at the Department of Medical
Informatics and Simulator Medicine,
Faculty of Medicine University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik in Košiciach
14.
Ing. Michal Kolárik, PhD.
– Freelance Software Developer
15.
Ing. Oliver Lohaj,
PhD. – assistant professor
at the Institute
of Artificial Intelligence
16.
Ing.
Miroslava Matejová, PhD. – currently
on maternity leave
17.
Ing. Peter Smatana
– CEO and Software Engineer SmartVia
s.r.o.
18.
Ing. Jozef Kováč – CEO Ayanza, Entrepreneur, AI, Cofounder and a couple of years CTO of Exponea
19.
Ing. Pavol Jasem
– Business
Architect at Grow2FIT
20.
Ing. Eva Turňová
– C# Developer at DCIT, a.s.
Projects
- 2025–2028 Support for the medical diagnostic process
through a software application using artificial intelligence models
(APVV-24-0454), project coordinated by Assoc. Prof. František Babič,
I am member of the research team
- 2024-2027
ALFA Labs - trAnsformation pLan For Ai
Living Labs, Erasmus+ project of the type KA220-HED - Cooperation
partnerships in higher education, project coordinated by Haaga-Helia
university of applied science, Helsinki, Finland, responsible
person for TUKE
- 2024-2027 Research of advanced data-analytical models
for the analysis of the influence of various factors on the course of the
COVID-19 disease and their usability (Slovak Scientific Research Grant
Agency project no. 1/0259/24), in cooperation with Faculty of Medicine,
P.J. Šafárik University in Košice, project
coordinated by Assoc. Prof. František Babič, I am his deputy
- 2023-2027 Modermed: Multimodal Detection of Toxic Behaviour in Social Media (Slovak Scientific
Research Grant Agency project no. APVV-22-0414), project coordinated by
Prof. Kristína Machová, researcher
- 2021-2024
Intepretable data analysis models to support decision making (Slovak Scientific Research
Grant Agency project no. 1/0685/21), project leader
- 2021-2024 Processing and analysis of ultrasonographic
video recordings using artificial intelligence (Slovak Scientific Research
Grant Agency project no. APVV-20-0232), project
coordinated by Assoc. Prof. František Babič, researcher
- 2018-2022 Determinants of increased cardiovascular risk
and their prognostic significance analyzed by machine learning in the
detection of high-risk individuals (Slovak Research and Development Agency
project no. APVV-17-0550), coordinated by prof. Daniel Pella, Faculty of
Medicine, P.J. Šafárik University in Košice, I
am leading the TUKE's research team
- 2017-2021 Knowledge-based approaches for intelligent
analysis of big data (Slovak Research and Development Agency project no.
APVV-16-0213) – in cooperation with the Slovak University of Technology in
Bratislava, Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies, project
leader (information
in APVV publication 2022: Excellence in Science on pages 62-63)
- 2018-2020 Rebelion: Automated
Recognition of Antisocial Behaviour in Online
Communities (Slovak Research and Development Agency project no.
APVV-17-0267), coordinated by prof. Pavol Návrat, Faculty of Informatics
and Information Technologies, the Slovak University of Technology in
Bratislava, I was a researcher in this project for TUKE
- 2016-2019 Methods and models for the analysis of data
streams (Slovak Scientific Research Grant Agency project no. 1/0493/16),
project leader
- 2016-2020
IT Academy – Education
for the 21st century (project supported by ESF, ITMS code:
312011F057), Activity 2: Innovation
of study programmes and courses
at universities in the
Data Science area) – responsible for Data Science
team at FEI, TUKE. Projet by the
Faculty of Science,
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice
- 2015-2017 Introduction of Education in Big Data
Analytics (Cultural and Educational Grant Agency project No.
025TUKE-4/2015), project leader
- 2014-2015 Modern informetric methods for the evaluation
of scientific research (bilateral project from Slovak Research and
Development Agency no. SK-CZ-2013-0062), TUK's research team leader,
cooperation with a team from Faculty of Applied Sciences, Univ. of
West Bohemia, led by Assoc. Prof. Dalibor Fiala
- 2013-2017 IT tools and services for analysis of various
types of processes, Pilot project Nr. 4 (PP4) within activity 3.1
"Pilot projects in Information and Communication Technologies"
of the University Science Park Technicom, PP4
project leader
- 2012-2015 Methods for analysis of collaborative
processes mediated by information systems (Slovak Scientific Research
Grant Agency project No. 1/1147/12), project leader
- 2012-2014 Urban Sensing: EU funded project FP7-SME-2012
contract No. 314887, project team leader for TUK, project solved in
cooperation with Economical faculty TUK
- 2012-2012 Innovative education of business analytics,
IBM Faculty Award, project leader
- 2011-2014 TRA-DICE: Cognitive traveling in the digital
space of the Web and digital libraries supported by personalized services
and social networks (Slovak Research and Development Agency -
APVV-0208-10), I was leading the TUK's research team
- 2011-2013 Virtual laboratory for business information
systems (Cultural and Educational Grant Agency project No. 065TUKE-4/2011)
- project leader
- 2010-2012 Information technologies for knowledge
transfer (IT4KT) - supported by the Research & Development Operational
Program funded by the ERDF (ITMS project code: 26220220123), I was leading
activity "1.2 Categorization and formalization of knowledge from
particular research areas."
- 2010-2013 Development of Center for Information and
Communication Technologies for Knowledge Systems - supported by the
Research & Development Operational Program funded by the ERDF (ITMS
project code: 26220120030), I am leading activity "2.3 Support of
research focused on information-control and process aspects of knowledge
systems."
- 2006-2011 KP-Lab (Knowledge Practices Laboratory), FP6
integrated IST project, I was leading the TUKE's research team
- 2009-2011 DMM (Data Mining Meteo)
(Slovak Research and Development Agency - VMSP-P-0048-09), I was leading
the TUKE's research team
- 2010-2011 Methods
of identification, annotation, search, access, and composition of services
using semantic metadata support for selected types of processes, Slovak Scientific research project no.
1/0042/10, I was deputy head
investigator
- 2010 Online Banking Reputation Manager (voiceShare) - student project with the support of Tatrabanka, project leader
- 2008-2010 Genomic data mining (GEMIN), project
supported by the Slovak ministry of health care, 2008-2010, coordinated by
the University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik in Košice,
I was leading the TUKE's research team
- 2007-2009 Semantic composition of web and grid
services (Slovak Research and Development Agency - APVV-0391-06), I was
leading the TUKE's research team
- 2007-2009 Support for knowledge creation processes
(Slovak Research and Development Agency - RPEU-0011-06), project leader
- 2007-2009 Methods for annotation, search, creation, and
accessing knowledge employing metadata for the semantic description of
knowledge, Slovak Scientific Research
project Nr. 1/4074/07, deputy
head investigator
- 2007-2008 Information extraction for knowledge
discovery supporting the research of hereditary diseases, a project of
international scientific cooperation, project leader
- 2006-2008 Methods and tools for the design of
integrated distributed applications based on ambients
- higher level agents, Slovak scientific research project No. 1/3135/06,
researcher
- 2005-2006 Text mining for information extraction and
semantic search - bilateral research project with University Regensburg,
Germany, project leader on the TUKE's side
- 2005-2007 Virtual laboratory for supply-chain
management, Cultural and Educational Grant Agency project, contact person
for our Faculty
- 2004-2006 Document Classification
and Annotation for the Semantic Web -
Slovak scientific research project Nr. 1/1060/04, deputy head investigator
- 2001-2004 OntoWeb
(Ontology-based information exchange for knowledge management and
electronic commerce) IST Project - Thematic network, contact person for
TUKE
- 2001-2003 Knowledge technologies for information
acquisition and retrieval - Slovak
scientific research project Nr. 1/8131/01, deputy head investigator
- 2001-2002 TEXAS TEXt AnalisyS - bilateral research project with Vienna
University of Technology, project leader on TUKE's side
- 2000-2003 WEBOCRACY: Web Technologies Supporting
Direct Participation in Democratic Processes, European Union FP5 IST
project, researcher
- 2000-2001 ILPNet2 (Network of Excellence in Inductive
Logic Programming), European Commission under INCO Program, contact person
for TUKE
- 1999-2000 CLUE CLUstering
Evaluation. Within this project 1st international student Workshop on Data
Analysis WDA'2000 has been organized with the Vienna University of
Technology, project leader on TUKE's side
- 1998-2000 KnowWeb: Web
in Support of Knowledge Management in Company (European Union ESPRIT
Program), researcher
- 1998-2001 GOAL: Geographic Information On-Line Analysis
(GIS - Data Warehouse Integration), INCO Copernicus European project,
TUKE's team leader
- 1998-2000 Integration of tools for intelligent
technologies, Slovak scientific research project no. 1/5032/98, researcher
- 1995-1998 ENCODE Environment for Configuration Design,
Copernicus project EÚ), Copernicus European project, researcher
- 1994-1997 Methods for solving and representation of
constraint satisfaction problems, Slovak scientific research project no. 1/1686/94, researcher
Scientific
conferences:
- Keynote
at the IEEE International Conference
ICETA 2024
- Senior PC member at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence ECAI 2024, ECAI 2025
- PC member
at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence ECAI 2023
(I have got “Quality Champion” award and "Discussion Master” award)
- Main editor of the book: Towards Digital
Intelligence Society: A Knowledge-based Approach. Paralic, J., Sinčák,
P., Hartono, P., Mařík, V. (Eds.), Springer, 2021
- IEEE World Symposium
on Digital Intelligence for Systems and Machines, DISA 2018 – program
committee co-chair
- 16th IEEE
International Symposium on Applied Machine Intelligence and Informatics,
SAMI 2018 – technical program committee co-chair
- Program committee chair of the 12th Workshop on Intelligent
and Knowledge oriented Technologies, WIKT 2017
- 15th IEEE
International Symposium on Applied Machine Intelligence and Informatics,
SAMI 2017 - technical program committee co-chair
- 14th IEEE
International Symposium on Applied Machine Intelligence and Informatics,
SAMI 2016 - technical program committee co-chair
- Program committee chair of the 10th Workshop on Intelligent
and Knowledge oriented Technologies, WIKT 2015
- Program and organizing committee chair of the 8th Workshop on Intelligent and
Knowledge oriented Technologies, WIKT 2013
- I served as program committee chair for the conference Znalosti
(Knowledge) 2013 in Ostrava, Czech Republic
- Program and organizing committee chair of the 6th Workshop on Intelligent and
Knowledge oriented Technologies, WIKT 2011
- Program and organizing committee chair of the 4th Workshop on Intelligent and
Knowledge oriented Technologies, WIKT 2009
- In 2009 I organized together with my colleague Dr. Andreas Rauber from
Vienna University of Technology 9th Workshop on
Data Analysis, WDA'2009
- In 2008 I organized together with my colleague Dr. Andreas Rauber from
Vienna University of Technology 8th Workshop
on Data Analysis, WDA'2008
- Program and organizing committee chair of the 2nd Workshop on Intelligent and
Knowledge oriented Technologies, WIKT 2007
- In 2006 I organized together with my colleague Dr. Andreas Rauber from
Vienna University of Technology 7th Workshop on Data
Analysis, WDA'2006
- I served as program committee chair for the conference Znalosti
(Knowledge) 2006 in Hradec Králové, Czech
Republic
- 6the
international student Workshop on data analysis WDA'2005
- In February 2005 I organized 4th Czech-Slovak
scientific conference Znalosti (Knowledge) 2005 in Stara Lesna, High Tatras, Slovakia
- In June 2004 I organized together with my colleague Dr. Andreas Rauber from
Vienna University of Technology already 5th international student
Workshop on Data Analysis WDA'2004
- 4th
international student Workshop on data analysis WDA'2003
- 3rd
international student Workshop on data analysis WDA'2002
- I served as program committee co-chair of the IEEE conference ITHET 2002
- 2nd
international student Workshop on data analysis WDA'2001
- 1st
international student Workshop on data analysis WDA'2000
- I served as organizing committee co-chair of the 3rd IEEE international
conference on intelligent engineering systems, INES’99, Stará Lesná, Slovakia
Contact
- Email: Jan.Paralic
at tuke.sk
- Tel: +421 55 602 4128
- Vysokoškolská 4, office No. 111
- Consultation hours: Monday
14:00 – 16:00
- Postal address: Institute of Artificial Intelligence,
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Technical University of
Košice, Letná 9, 042 00 Košice, Slovak Republic