Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
Personal information
Assoc. Prof. Zdeněk Valenta, Ph.D.
Dany Medřické 1023
252 64 Velké Přílepy, Czech Republic
E-mail: valenta@cs.cas.cz
Track record as of 12 FEB 2021
61 scientific papers were registered at the Web of Science, 4 patents, 1 utility model
Articles mostly appear in impacted international scientific journals
WoS - 557 citations without auto-citation at the Web of Science, Hirsch's citation index (h-index) = 11
Google Scholar - 918 citations, h-index 13, i10-index 15
Work experience
2002/06/01 → Institute of Computer Science AS CR, Pod Vodárenskou věží 2, 182 07
Prague, Czech Republic. Senior research scientist.
Chair of the Dept. of Medical Informatics & Biostatistics 2011-2015
Deputy Director for Strategic Development 2017-current
Chair of the Dept. of Statistical Modelling 2017-current
1995/01/15–1995/07/16 Visiting Fulbright Scholar at Stanford Center for Research in Disease Prevention, Stanford University, 1000 Welch Road, CA 94304 Palo Alto,U.S.A.
1988/06/01-1995/01/14 Dept. of Preventive Cardiology, Institute for Clinical & Experimental Medicine (IKEM), Vídeňská 1958/9, 140 21 Prague, Czech Republic,
Medical statistician, principal work on the Czech component of the WHO project MONICA
Education & Training
1997/10/01-2002/04/30 Ph.D. in Biostatistics. Thesis on estimating survival in the Gray’s model. Dept. of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of
Pittsburgh, 130 DeSoto St., Pittsburgh, PA 15261, U.S.A.
1995/10/01-1997/05/30 M.S. in Mathematical Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, Baker Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, U.S.A.
1990/09/09-1991/05/30 M.Sc. in Medical Statistics, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, WC1E 7HT London, U.K.
1983/10/01-1988/06/30 M.Sc. in Mathematical Statistics, Dept. of Probability & Mathematical Statistics, Charles University in Prague, Ke Karlovu 3, 121 16 Prague, Czech Republic
Research interests
Analysis of data from cross-sectional and longitudinal studies, statistical modelling, survival analysis, generalised linear models, statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology
Membership in professional societies:
International Society for Clinical Biostatistics (http://www.iscb.info/)
Chair of the National Groups SubCommittee 2012-2020
Member of the Conference Organisation SC 2008-2020
ISCB, member of the Executive Committee 2011-2012, 2013-2014
ISCB Treasurer 2015-2016, 2017-2018
ISCB Vicepresident 2019-2020
ISCB President 2021-2022
Czech Statistical Society (http://statspol.cz/ )
Mezinárodní společnost pro klinickou biostatistiku v České republice, z.s.
Non-profit national scientific organisation, chair since its foundation in 2006
Awards
2003 Delta Omega award
Best dissertation in the Dept. of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
2002 Outstanding student award
University of Pittburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
2001 ENAR Student Travel Award
ENAR section of the International Biometric Society, Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.A.
1995 Fulbright fellowship award
Visiting Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, U.S.A.
Awarded patents
Zvárová J, Mazura I, Feglarová P, Valenta Z, Grünfeldová H. ‘Oligonucleotide chip for the prognosis assesment of patients with acute myocardial infarction‘. Patent No. 302379, Czech Industrial Property Office, A. Čermáka 2a, 160 68 Prague 6 – Bubeneč, Czech Republic. Writing document PV 2009-872. Patent awarded 14.3.2011.
Grants collaboration
Institutional Research Plan ‘AV0Z10300504‘ of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Computer Science for the Information Society: Models, Algorithms, Applications (2002-2011)
Centre of Biomedical Informatics, a joint research center supported by the project ‘1M06014‘ of the Ministry of Education CR (2006-2011)
Information Society, a project ‘ 1ET200300413‘ supported by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (2004-2009)
Conference organisation
30th Annual Conference of the ISCB (Chair of the Organisation Committee, member of the Programme Committee. Prague, Czech Republic, August 2009)
First International Summer School of Biomedical Informatics (Prague, 2008)