Prof. RNDr. Ing Ján Turán, DrSc.
(full professor)

Park Komenského 13, 041 20 Košice
tel.: ++421 55 602 2943
fax.: ++421 55 632 39 89
e-mail: jan.turan@tuke.sk

Biography:

Prof. Ján TURÁN was born in Šahy, Slovakia. He received Ing.(MSc.) degree in physical engineering with honours from the Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic, in 1974, and RNDr. degree in experimental physics with honours from Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, in 1980. He received a CSc. (PhD.) and DrSc. degrees in radioelectronics from University of Technology, Košice, Slovakia, in 1983, and 1992, respectively. From 1974 to 1977, he worked as an electrical engineer at the ČKD Semiconductors, Prague. From 1977 to 1979, he was with the Institute of Nuclear Technology and Radioecology, Košice, as a research fellow. Since March 1979, he has been at the University of Technology, Košice as Professor for electronics and information technology. His research interests include digital signal processing and fiber optics, communication and sensing. Prof. Turán is a senior member of the IEEE, member of the Czech and Slovak Radioengineering and Photonics Societies.

Field of interest:

Application of digital and multimedia signal processing ( transform image processing, fast translation invariant transforms - Rapid transform, Hough transform, Radon transform, Trace transform ), multimedia communications ( teleeducation, teleworking), fiber optic communication and sensing.