Ivo Petráš received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in process control from the Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia, in 1997 and 2000, respectively, and the Dr.Sc. degree in process control from the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia, in 2013. He works at the Faculty of BERG, Institute of Control and Informatization of Production Processes, Technical University of Kosice, as a Professor, and the Institute Director. He has published 7 books, 5 book chapters, over 80 journal articles, and over 100 conference papers. His research interests include control systems, automation, and applied mathematics. He is a member of IFAC (TC 2.2. Linear Control Systems) and a senior member of the IEEE Control Systems Society, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, and IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. He is also a member of the Editorial Board for International Journal of General Systems, International Journal of Applied and Computational Mathematics, and Mathematics. He serves as an Associate Editor for journals: Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis and ISA Transactions. In 2005, he received an award from the Ministry of Education, Slovakia, in category of young scientist to 35 years, and in 2020 in the category the best scientist. In 2016, he received the Prize of the Literary Fund of the Slovak Republic for the third most frequently cited book in Slovakia and the Prize of the Literary Fund of the Slovak Republic for the three-year citation impact.
Ivo Petráš received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in process control from the Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia, in 1997 and 2000, respectively, and the Dr.Sc. degree in process control from the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia, in 2013. He works at the Faculty of BERG, Institute of Control and Informatization of Production Processes, Technical University of Kosice, as a Professor, and the Institute Director. He has published 7 books, 5 book chapters, over 80 journal articles, and over 100 conference papers. His research interests include control systems, automation, and applied mathematics. He is a member of IFAC (TC 2.2. Linear Control Systems) and a senior member of the IEEE Control Systems Society, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, and IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. He is also a member of the Editorial Board for International Journal of General Systems, International Journal of Applied and Computational Mathematics, and Mathematics. He serves as an Associate Editor for journals: Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis and ISA Transactions. In 2005, he received an award from the Ministry of Education, Slovakia, in category of young scientist to 35 years, and in 2020 in the category the best scientist. In 2016, he received the Prize of the Literary Fund of the Slovak Republic for the third most frequently cited book in Slovakia and the Prize of the Literary Fund of the Slovak Republic for the three-year citation impact.