Editors and Contributors
About the Editors
Dr. Vladimir Blazek is Professor Emeritus for Measurement Techniques and
Senior Advisor at the Chair for Medical Information Technology,
Helmholtz-Institute for Biomedical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University,
Germany. His areas of research interest include optical communication technology,
optoelectronics in medicine, biomedical sensors, tissue optics, photon-biotissue
interaction, modelling and simulation of human hemodynamics, optical imaging,
2D/3D measuring concepts & functional signal analysis. He actively works in
European integration & co-operation in the field of university education and is the
Rector’s delegate for university cooperation between Aachen and Prague. He has
over 300 publications in books, journals and conference proceedings, and close to
50 patents and patent registrations in Germany and abroad. Since 2014 is Dr.
Blazek also a member of the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and
Cybernetics (CIIRC), established at the Czech Technical University (CTU) in
Prague, Czech Republic, in 2013.
Dr. Jagadeesh Kumar V. received his B.E. Degree in Electronics and
Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Madras in 1978, and his M.
Tech. and Ph.D degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of
Technology Madras, in 1980 and 1986, respectively. He is presently a faculty
member in the department of Electrical Engineering and dean at IIT Madras. He
was a BOYSCAST Fellow at King’s College London during 1987-88. He was a
DAAD fellow at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany during 1997.
He worked as a Visiting Scientist at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany
during 1999, 2010, 2013 and 2019. He holds two patents and has published 30
papers in international journals and presented papers at several conferences. His
teaching and research interests are in the areas of Measurements, Instrumentation
and Signal Processing.
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About the Editors
Dr. Vladimir Blazek is Professor Emeritus for Measurement Techniques and
Senior Advisor at the Chair for Medical Information Technology,
Helmholtz-Institute for Biomedical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University,
Germany. His areas of research interest include optical communication technology,
optoelectronics in medicine, biomedical sensors, tissue optics, photon-biotissue
interaction, modelling and simulation of human hemodynamics, optical imaging,
2D/3D measuring concepts & functional signal analysis. He actively works in
European integration & co-operation in the field of university education and is the
Rector’s delegate for university cooperation between Aachen and Prague. He has
over 300 publications in books, journals and conference proceedings, and close to
50 patents and patent registrations in Germany and abroad. Since 2014 is Dr.
Blazek also a member of the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and
Cybernetics (CIIRC), established at the Czech Technical University (CTU) in
Prague, Czech Republic, in 2013.
Dr. Jagadeesh Kumar V. received his B.E. Degree in Electronics and
Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Madras in 1978, and his M.
Tech. and Ph.D degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of
Technology Madras, in 1980 and 1986, respectively. He is presently a faculty
member in the department of Electrical Engineering and dean at IIT Madras. He
was a BOYSCAST Fellow at King’s College London during 1987-88. He was a
DAAD fellow at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany during 1997.
He worked as a Visiting Scientist at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany
during 1999, 2010, 2013 and 2019. He holds two patents and has published 30
papers in international journals and presented papers at several conferences. His
teaching and research interests are in the areas of Measurements, Instrumentation
and Signal Processing.
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