Pavel Zemcik, a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Bruno University of Technology in the Czech Republic, will be Penn State Erie's first international scholar-in-residence.
During the spring semester Zemcik will teach upper- and lower-division computer engineering, assist student and faculty research and lecture on East European politics.
Zemcik's research interests are human-machine communication, real-time imaging and video compression. He has completed teaching and research assignments at the University of Bristol and the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom, and at Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland.
As the International Scholar in Residence program develops, it is planned that Penn State Erie will host one scholar each semester, rotating the position among its four schools: Engineering and Engineering Technology, Business, Humanities and Social Sciences; and Science.