Optimization: An Introduction (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783031863257)

Libor Pekař received a B.S. degree in automation and informatics from Tomas Bata University (TBU) in Zlín in 2002, an M.S. degree in automation and control engineering in the consumption industry in 2005, and a Ph.D. degree in technical cybernetics from TBU in Zlín in 2013. He was appointed as an Associate Professor of machine and process control at TBU in Zlín in 2018. From 2006 to 2013, he worked as a Junior Lecturer at TBU in Zlín. He became a Senior Lecturer there in 2013. Since 2020, he has also worked as a Senior Lecturer at the College of Polytechnics Jihlava, Czech Republic. In 2024, he was appointed as a Guest Professor at the Beijing Institute of Technology, China, for five years.

Assoc. Prof. Pekař is the author of one book and eight book chapters and (co-)author of more than 50 journal articles and 80 conference papers. His research interests include analysis, modeling, identification, and control of time-delay systems, algebraic control methods, heat-exchanger processes, relay-based autotuning, and optimization techniques. He serves as an Academic Editor of Mathematical Problems in Engineering journal and Measurement and Control journal, a Topical Advisory Panel Member and a Lead Guest Editor of Mathematics journal, an Editorial Board Member of AppliedMath journal, and an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Energy Research journal and International Journal of Robotics and Control Systems. Assoc. Prof. Pekař is a member of IEEE, the American Chemical Society, and the Association for Computing Machinery. He has also served as a Reviewer for over 40 scientific journals, including Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Control Systems Letters, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Applied Thermal Engineering, and ISA Transactions. Assoc. Prof. Pekař received the Laureate of the ASR Seminary Instrumentation and Control in 2007 and 2009, the Rectors' Award for the best Ph.D. thesis at the Faculty of Applied Informatics TBU in Zlín in 2013, Best Reviewer Award from Control Theory and Technology journal in 2019, and the Outstanding Paper Award at the 1st World Conference on Multiphase Transportation, Conversion and Utilization of Energy in 2022.