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Names: Wojdel, Jacek Cyprian

Date of birth: 14th october 1973

Place of birth: Lodz, Poland

Residence: Vinkenlaan 159, 2623 GJ Delft, the Netherlands

Citizenship: Polish

Status: married to Anna Wojdel (Polish), proud father of my son Oskar

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Education:

In 1992 graduated from I LO im.M.Kopernika the secondary school in Lodz.
July 1992: a member of Polish team for the International Physics Olympiad in Helsinki, Finland.
From 1992 to 1997 student of the Faculty of Technical Physics, Informatics and Applied Mathematics on Technical University of Lodz, Poland.
Since 1993 studied on basis of individual program under a supervision of Dr. P.S. Szczepaniak from Institute of Computer Science. The main direction of studies: Artificial Neural Networks, Fuzzy-Systems and Artificial Intelligence.
In the academic year 1996/1997 finished a Master's Thesis project at Delft University of Technology under supervision of Dr.Drs. L.J.M Rothkrantz (the Netherlands) and Dr.P.S.Szczepaniak (Poland). The project and master's thesis work title was: "Recognition of Mouth Shape in a Video-Sequence"
Graduated from Technical University of Lodz in April 1997.

Languages: English - fluently, Dutch - beginner

Computer languages: C, C++, 80x86 Assembler, ADA, Pascal, Java

Computer systems experience: Windows 3.x/95/NT, OS/2 Warp, MacOS 7.x, SCO Unix, Sun workstation.

Achievements:

In the academic years 1995/96 and 1996/97 awarded with funding from Polish Ministry of Education for the very good students.
In April 1996 published a first paper: "Generating Fractals with Use of Neural Networks" on 2nd Conference on Neural Networks and Applications (Szczyrk 1996, Poland) organized by Polish Neural Network Society.
In 1997 awarded by Technical University of Lodz for a very good Master's Thesis work.
In June 98 published: "Gradient Based Approach to Mouth Shape Recognition" on ASCI'98 the fourth annual conference of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging, Lommel, Belgium, June 9-11, 1998.
In September 98: "Mixed Fuzzy-System and Artificial Neural Network Approach to the Automated Recognition of Mouth Expressions", Proceedings of the 8^th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Skovde, Sweden, 2-4 September 1998, vol. 2 pp. 833-838.
For further publications see papers page.

Interests: Artificial Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems, Hidden Markov Models, Artificial Intelligence etc. I'd like to continue research which I did for the last year and go further for topics like: lip-reading, bimodal speech recognition etc. Created: 26.03.98,
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