Curriculum Vitae
Born: December 23, 1962, Riga, Latvia
Interests:
- Computational linguistics
- Knowledge representation and reasoning
- Inductive inference and Machine learning
- Wireless and Satellite communications
- Computer networking protocols
- Business modelling and Specification languages
Languages: English, Russian, Latvian
Education
- Dr. Computer Science, University of Latvia (Riga, Latvia), 1992
- Ph.D. Computer Science, Siberian Branch of USSR Academy of Sciences, (Novosibirsk, Russia), 1990
- B.Sc. Applied Mathematics, University of Latvia (Riga, Latvia), 1986
Experience
- 1992-present Professor, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia (Riga, Latvia)
- 1998-2005 Technical Director, Taide Network AS (Holmestrand, Norway)
- 1996-1999 Certified Cisco Systems Instructor (CCSI), Internetworking University AB (Stockholm, Sweden)
- 1992-1998 Technical Director, Latnet (ISP) (Riga, Latvia)
- 1991-1992 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Computer Science, New Mexico State University (Las Cruces, NM, USA)
- 1985-1991 Junior Research Associate, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia (Riga, Latvia)
Professional Activities and Memberships
- Advisor for Baltic countries, ACM Committee on Central and EasternEurope
- Member, Baltnet Research Networking Board
- “BALTnet’93” conference Organization commity member, Riga, Latvia.
- “NORDUnet’99” conference Programm commity member, Lund, Sweden.
- Member of Internet Society since 1994.
Courses
- Programming Languages, New Mexico State University, Spring 1992
- Object-Oriented Programming and C++, University of Latvia,1992-1994
- Programming Languages, University of Latvia, 1993-1997
- Computer Networks, University of Latvia, 1997-present
- UNIX and Applications, University of Latvia, 2005-present
Representative Publications
- G.J.Barzdins. Experiments with mixed computation,Programmirovanie, 1:30-43, 1987 (in Russian)
- G.Barzdins. Mixed Computation and Compiler Basis, Proceedings ofWorkshop on Partial and Mixed Computation, Denmark, October 1987, (Eds. D.Bjorner,A.P.Ershov, N.D.Jones), North-Holland, 1988, pp.15-26.
- G.Barzdins. Inductive synthesis of encoding for algebraic datatypes, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, 1989, vol.397,pp.328-338.
- G.Barzdins. Inductive Synthesis of Term Rewriting Systems,Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, 1991, vol.502, pp.253-285.
- Barzdins J, G.Barzdins. Towards Efficient Inductive Synthesis: RapidConstruction of Local Regularities, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, SpringerVerlag, 1993, vol.659, pp.132-140.
- J.Barzdins, G.Barzdins, K.Apsitis, U.Sarkans, Towards EfficientInductive Synthesis of Expressions from Input/Output Examples, Lecture Notes in ComputerScience, Springer Verlag,1993, vol.744, pp.59-72.
- G.Barzdins. Research Networks in the Baltic countries,Proceedings of the Nordic Conf. on Research and Educational Networking NORDUNET-94,May31-June2, Umea, Sweden, 1994, 8 p.
- J.Barzdins, A.Kalnins, G.Barzdins. Rule-based Approach to BusinessModelling, Proceedings of the 7th Intern.Conf. on Software Engineering and KnowledgeEngineering SEKE95, Knowledge Systems Institute, 1995, pp.161-165.
- I.Murane, G.Barzdins. Internet service providers in Latvia,BALTIC IT REVIEW, 1996, Nr.1, pp.49-52.
- G.Barzdins, J.Kikuts, R.Balodis. Internet Development Trends inLatvia, Baltic IT&T 97, April 2-4, 1997, Riga.
- G.Barzdins, Baltic Network Proliferation, NORDUnet'97 Conference, Reykjavik, June 29 - July 1, 1997.
- A.Sidorovs, G.Barzdins. J.Lacis, K.Ogsts. Smart ARP: Merging IP andMAC Addressing for low-cost gigabit Ethernet networks, Computer networks, Elevier Science B.V., Vol.31(21) November 1999, pp.2193-2204.
- also in: Proceedings of TNNC'99 conf., Lund, Sweden, 1999 (http://www.terena.nl/conferences/archive/tnnc/1B/1B2/1B2.html) - G.Barzdins, J.Tully, A.Riekstins. Applications of high-speedwireless solutions for developing countries: Lessons learnd in Latvia and Moldova. -Proceedings of INET'99 conf., San Jose, California, USA, 1999. (http://www.isoc.org/inet99/proceedings/4d/4d_2.htm)
- G.Barzdins, Quality and Efficiency of Voice via Satellite, Broadband via Satellite Conference, Brussels, May 29-30, 2002.
- G.Barzdins, UML + Spreadsheets as a Telecommunications Network Documentation and Analysis Tool, Databases and Information Systems, Vol.118, IOS Press, 2005, pp.238-246. ISSN 0922-6389
- J.Barzdins, G.Barzdins, R.Balodis, K.Cerans, A.Kalnins, M.Opmanis, K.Podnieks, Towards Semantic Latvia, Baltic DB&IS 2006, Communications, O.Vasileckas,J.Eder, A.Caplinskas (Eds). Vilnius: Technika, 2006. pp.203-218. PDF
- G.Barzdins, N. Gruzitis, R.Kudins. "Re-Engineering OntoSem Ontology Towards OWL DL Compliance", Knowledge-Based Software Engineering, E.Tyugu and T.Yamaguchi (Eds.), Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Vol.140, IOS Press, 2006, pp.157-166. ISSN 0922-6389, ISBN 1-58603-640-8, LCCN 2006929180.(Proceedings of the Seventh JCKBSE'06 conference, Tallinn August 28-31) PDF
Research Projects
- Visualization of knowledge bases, New Mexico State University, NSF,1991-1992
- GRAPES Specification Language and GRADE tools, Infologistik andSiemens GmbH, 1992-1994
- Research Network of Latvia (LATNET), NordicCouncil of Ministers, Ministry of Education of Latvia, 1993-1997
- BalticGrid , FP6 ICT project, 2005-2008
- SemTi Kamols , National Research Programme project, 2005-2008