Libor PekarLibor Pekar is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Applied Informatics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic. He received the B.S. in automation and informatics from the Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic in 2002, the M.S. inautomation and control engineering in consumption industry in 2005 and Ph.D. in technical cybernetics from the same institution in 2013. From 2006 to 2013 he worked there as a Junior Lecturer. He became a Senior Lecturer in 2013, since 2018 he has been appointed as an Associate Professor at the same institution. He is the author of three book chapters, more than 40 journal articles and 70 conference papers. His research interests include analysis, modeling, identification and control of time-delay systems, algebraic control methods, autotuning and optimization techniques. He has been an editor of Mathematical Problems in Engineering since 2018. He has served as a reviewer of contribution to many top-notch journals, such as Applied Mathematics and Computations, ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, International Journal of Control, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Systems & Control Letters, Swarm and Evolution Algorithms, and many others. Assoc. Prof. Pekar received the Rectors' Award for the best Ph.D. thesis in the Faculty of Applied Informatics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic, in 2013, and the Laureate of the ASR Seminary Instrumentation and Control in 2007 and 2009. Read More Read Less