Matus Uzak

E-mail: matus.uzak@gmail.com
Curriculum Vitae

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3.2013	Freelancer, open source contributor at Calligra and bnns.
2.2010 - 12.2011	Calligra, the office and creativity suite - open source contributor supported by Nokia.
10.2008 - 8.2012	Ixonos Slovakia: C/C++ SW Developer (S40/Maemo/MeeGo application SW)
9.2005 - 10.2008	PhD student at KKUI TUKE. Run out of 3 years funding from the Slovak Ministry of Education.

Research:

Professional interests:

Everything concerning the field of artificial intelligence. Mainly biologically inspired and emergence based technologies. And programming of course. And GNU/Linux.

Personal interests:

GNU/Linux, philosophy, audio amplifiers, music, snowboarding, basketball, biking, squash.

Selected Publications:

Matus Uzak, Rudolf Jaksa and Peter Sincak, " Reduction of Visual Information in Neural Network Learning Visualization ", Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2008, ser. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol.5164/2008, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, 2008, pp. 690-699. [pdf]
Matus Uzak and Rudolf Jaksa, " Framework for the Interactive Learning of Artificial Neural Networks ", Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2006, ser. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4131/2006, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, 2006, pp. 103-112. [pdf]
Michal Hosa, Rudolf Jaksa and Matus Uzak, " Image Compression Using Unsupervised Error Backpropagation on Neural Network ", Modern trends in Control, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia, 2006, pp.103-110. [pdf]
Matus Uzak and Rudolf Jaksa, " Visualization and Interaction in the Process of Neural Network Learning ", 1st. Slovak-Japanese Seminar on Intelligent Systems, Herlany, Slovakia, 2005. [pdf]

Selected Posters:

Matus Uzak, Rudolf Jaksa and Peter Sincak, " Interactive Training of a Multilayer Perceptron: Fusion of the Capabilities of Backpropagation and Human Evaluation ", ICCNS08, Twelfth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, May 14-17, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2008. [pdf]

Publications in Slovak:

Matus Uzak, " Interactive Learning of Artificial Neural Networks ", PhD Thesis Prospectus, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia, 2007. [pdf]
Matus Uzak, " Visualization and Interaction in the Process of Neural Network Learning ", Master's Thesis, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia, 2005. [pdf]

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