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The Team
The Project Team
prof. Ivan Zelinka
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Ivan Zelinka (Czech Republic) is currently working at the Technical University of Ostrava (VŠB-TU), Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and National Supercomputing Centre IT4Innovations. His field of expertise is in computer science, bioinspired and unconventional algorithms and cybersecurity which are guaranteed by his NAVY lab. He is one of the brains behind the whole project and research. He originally came up with the idea to ask the world for collaboration on analysis by unconventional algorithms and possible (we hope 😃 ) decoding the Voynich manuscript, reported in 2 documentary movies released by Czech TV and Kino Svět.
Contribution to this project: head, project administrator, AI and unconventional algorithms application on VM, data analysis.
Dr. Leah Windsor
Dr. Leah Windsor (USA) is a Research Assistant Professor in the Institute for Intelligent Systems at The University of Memphis where she directs the Languages Across Cultures and Languages Across Modalities labs. In 2018, she launched the QuantText website to serve as a repository for quantitative text analysis research. Her work has been published in Political Communication, PLOS-ONE, International Interactions, Political Research Quarterly, PS: Political Science and Politics, and Terrorism and Political Violence, and she serves on the Editorial Board of International Studies Quarterly and International Studies Perspectives. She is also a 2020-2021 Non-Resident Fellow for the Krulak Center in the Marine Corps University.
Contribution to this project: VM analysis by text processing methods.
Dr. Arnošt Vašíček
Arnošt Vašíček is a Czech traveller, screenwriter, writer and enigmatist. He graduated from the Faculty of Journalism at Charles University in Prague, majoring in Film and Television Journalism. His main interest is mysteries such as unsolved archaeological finds, unexplained phenomena and other mysterious and unknown phenomena, including secret rituals. He also devoted himself to sea yachting and took part in three large sea expeditions.
In total, he has visited more than 80 countries on five continents. During his travels, he visited and studied a number of primitive tribes in remote parts of the world, such as the Vedas in Sri Lanka, the Dayaks in Borneo, the Danes in Irian Jaya, the Mentawai in Siberut Island, the Dogons in Mali, the Cuba tribe in Sumatra and Antanosa in Madagascar.
In addition to abroad, he also focuses on mysteries in the Czech Republic. In his work entitled The Secret of the Devil's Bible, he tried to decipher the background of the Codex Gigas manuscript book (also known as the Devil's Bible). He also dealt with strange paintings in the church of St. John the Baptist in Jindřichův Hradec, a possible site of the tomb of the Hun king Attila and many other mysteries.
Arnošt Vašíček is a very active author who already has more than 40 titles on his account. In addition to the writer's work, he also wrote a screenplay for a number of documentaries and television series, such as The Guardian of Souls or the mysterious detective trilogies Devil's Trick and The Lost Gate (trilogy about Voynich manuscript).
Contribution to this project: an expert on old worldwide cultures and tribes, advisor, consultant.
Dr. Vladimír Matlach
Vladimír Matlach (Czech Republic) works in the field of informatics and linguist focused on communication theory, quantitative text analysis and quantitative linguistic software. He works as an assistant professor at UP Olomouc.
Contribution to this project: quantitative text analysis.
prof. Oldřich Zmeškal
prof. Oldřich Zmeškal (Czech Republic) is an expert on material sciences like preparation and characterization of organic semiconductors and other organic materials suitable for optoelectronic applications; electronic properties of these materials such as space charge limited current, impedance spectroscopy, and ellipsometry, thermal properties of materials, transient measurements, thermal parameters determination, phase change materials, building materials and cooperation with Czech and international research and industrial enterprises, research in the field of characterization and application of organic semiconductors and thermoelectric properties of the material.
Beside this expertise, he is also actively working in the field of statistical and fractal mathematics and physics, image and data (signal) analysis, author of the software for image and signal analysis HarFA. This software is used for about ten years not only for the analysis of letters and sequences of the Voynich Manuscript (as mentioned here).
Contribution to this project: fractal and statistical text analysis, comparison with old texts and dialects.
MSc. Anirban Banik
Anirban Banik (India) is presently working as a Research Scholar at the National Institute of Technology Agartala (NIT Agartala), Department of Civil Engineering. His research interest includes Hydro-informatics, Application of soft computing and Nature Inspired Algorithm, Application of computational fluid dynamics, and Membrane technology. He has published his work in highly indexed journals such as SCI (Web of Science) and SCOPUS. He has also published several Book Chapters and Conference papers. He is also an active member of several international conference programs committees and Co-Publicity Chair for the ICICO conference.
Contribution to this project: assistant, nature-inspired algorithm application, expert and contact on old Indian dialects.
Anežka Minaříková
Anežka Minaříková is a graphic designer from the Czech Republic, based in the United States.
She holds an MFA degree from Yale School of Art. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut, where she will continue her research on Voynich Manuscript at the Beinecke Library. She has her own independent graphic design practice and also currently teaches introduction to graphic design at Yale University.
Bc. Marian Grobář, Bc. Aneta Opletalová
Magister level students of computer science working on Voynich manuscript project at VŠB-TU Ostrava, FEI, Czech Republic.
Contribution to this project: assistants, data preprocessing, project coworkers.
