Curriculum Vitae
Peter Brezany studied at the Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, Slovakia, where he received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 1980. His research focus was formal semantics of parallel programming languages, parallel language design, compiler developments. During his career at the STU and Slovak Academy of Sciences, he designed and implemented a special PASCAL compiler supporting PASCAL language teaching (1985). Further, he designed and implemented a Modula-2 based parallel programming language for a SIMD associative processor (1990).
In 1990, Dr. Brezany accepted a research and teaching position at the University of Vienna. He contributed to the development of SUPERB, the first Fortran-based compilation system for distributed-memory architectures; SUPERB converts sequential Fortran 77 programs augmented with data distribution directives into explicitly parallel message-passing programs. This was an important step in the direction towards high-level languages for scalable architectures, such as High Performance Fortran. Dr. Brezany significantly contributed to the development of compiler- and runtime techniques for processing irregular and input-output-intensive applications. He presented his research results in the monography “Input/Output Intensive Massively Parallel Computing (Language Support - Automatic Parallelization - Advanced Optimizations - Runtime Systems), Springer-Verlag, 1997. The book was also the basis for his habilitation thesis (1999).
In 1990, Dr. Peter Brezany accepted a professorship for Applied Computer Science at the University of Vienna. The experience gained with early data-intensive high performance computing was the excellent basis for the elaboration of parallel and distributed techniques for mining big data volumes. His team developed GridMiner, the first full-fledged data mining system running on the computational grids. GridMiner accessed distributed data resources by means of the OGSA-DAI system and integrated them on the fly. Then OLAP, data mining, and visualization services were applied. The services were orchestrated by a home-grown workflow engine. Later, data provenance- and dataspace management systems were developed and integrated into the GridMiner infrastructure. GridMiner was used in several real applications, for example, management of patients with traumatic brain injury, advanced breath gas analysis – used primarily for early detection of lung cancers and optimizing chemotherapy, and a novel application of Traditional Chinese Medicine focused on the noninvasive determination of blood sugar.
The experience gained with early Grid-based data science work paved the way for Dr. Brezany’s team to the European project ADMIRE – Advanced Data Mining and Integration Research for Europe (2008-2012), the research and development results of which were issued in the book The DATA Bonanza – Improving Knowledge Discovery in Science, Engineering, and Business John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (with coauthors M. Atkinson, R. Baxter, O. Corcho, M. Galea, M. Parsons, D. Snellig, and J. van Hemert), 2013.
After retiring from the University of Vienna in September 2013, Dr. Brezany became a Professor at the Brno University of Technology. In the context of several international projects, he extended his research focus to the life sciences area-neuroscience research, support patients, and elderly people with e-science, etc.
Dr. Brezany is the author or co-author of about 300 publications, Technical Reports, and White Papers, including 2 books, 8 book chapters, and 170 refereed publications. He has presented about 200 scientific lectures at universities, research institutions, companies, and international conferences. He has served as Chair of several conferences and has been a member of more than 30 Program Committees. He has reviewed a large number of papers for international conferences and journals. Further has served as an evaluator of many international and national projects.
- Updated: January/2022