Andrzej Cichocki

Andrzej Cichocki

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AndrzejCICHOCKI received the M.Sc. (with honors), Ph.D. and Dr.Sc. (Habilitation)degrees, all in electrical engineering. from Warsaw University of Technology(Poland).

Since 1972, he has beenwith the Institute of Theoryof Electrical Engineering, Measurement  and Information Systems, Faculty of Electrical Engineeringat the Warsaw University of Technology, where he obtain a title of a fullProfessor in 1995.

He spent several years atUniversity Erlangen-Nuerenberg(Germany), at the Chair of Applied and Theoretical Electrical Engineeringdirected by Professor Rolf Unbehauen, as an Alexander-von-Humboldt ResearchFellow and Guest Professor.

In 1995-1997 he was ateam leader of the laboratory for Artificial Brain Systems, at FrontierResearch Program RIKEN (Japan), in the Brain Information Processing Group.

He is currently the headof the laboratory for AdvancedBrain Signal Processing, at RIKEN Brain Science Institute (JAPAN) in theBrain-Style Computing  Group directed by Professor Shun-ichi Amari.

He isco-author of more than 100 technical papers and three internationallyrecognized monographs (two of them translated to Chinese):

Size Zero (Visage Book 1)

Size Zero (Visage Book 1)

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<p style="margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>&quot;A somber, disturbing mystery fused with a scathing look at the fashion industry. </strong><strong>Mangin writes in a confident, razor-edged style.&quot;</strong><strong> - Kirkus Reviews</strong></p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>Condom dresses and space helmets have debuted on fashion runways.</strong></p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">A dead body becomes the trend when a coat made of human skin saunters down fashion's biggest stage. The body is identified as Annabelle Leigh, the teenager who famously disappeared over a decade ago from her boyfriend's New York City mansion.</p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">This new evidence casts suspicion back on the former boyfriend, Cecil LeClaire. Now a monk, he is forced to return to his dark and absurd childhood home to clear his name. He teams up with Ava Germaine, a renegade ex-model. And together, they investigate the depraved and lawless modeling industry behind Cecil's family fortune.</p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">They find erotic canes, pet rats living in crystal castles, and dresses made of crushed butterfly wings. But Cecil finds more truth in the luxury goods than in the people themselves. Everyone he meets seems to be wearing a person-suit. Terrified of showing their true selves, the glitterati put on flamboyant public personas to make money and friends. Can Cecil find truth in a world built on lies?</p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>In high fashion modeling, selling bodies is organized crime.</strong></p>

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