- Areas
- Key words
Specialist in the field of foundations of computer science and AI (approximate reasoning, rough sets, data mining, decision support systems, computing models, complex decision systems)
Academic research conducted
rough sets, interactive granular computing, computing models for data science, data mining
Cooperation
- Centrum Cyfrowej Nauki i Technologii UKSW (since 2019)
- University of Warsaw, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics (MIMUW),
- Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences,
State Committee for Scientific Research (KBN), National Science Centre (NCN) and National Centre for Research and Development (NCBiR), - member of Polskie Towarzystwo Matematyczne (PTM),
- member of the Scientific Council of The Polish Artificial Intelligence Society (PSSI),
- member of Committee on Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (since 1997),
- Deputy Head of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences (for many years until 02.2019),
member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences (since 1997), - member of the Scientific Council of Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences (since 1999),
- Speaker of the Senate and professor at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology (1994-1999),
- member of the 'Advisory Board' of International Rough Set Society (IRSS), in the years 1996-2000 'IRSS President',
- Cooperation with the academic centers in Poland and abroad (e.g. In Bulgaria, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Italy, Canada, USA, China, India, Japan),
- member of the 'Advisory Board' at the Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) (Japan), http://wi-consortium.org/,
- The International Institute of Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (Canada) www.ucalgary.ca,
- senior scientist at the NuTech Solutions (2000-2002),
- Contractor in the project sponsored by the Wallenberg Foundation w Linköping University (2000-2003),
- cooperation in the project Basic Science And Engineering (COBASE), National Research Council, Office of International Affairs, USA (San Diego State University), involvement in Polish-Norwegian, Polish-British, EU, and Polish-Indian projects,
- editor of Fundamenta Informaticae (1995-2009); currently 'honorary editor', coeditor of Transactions on Rough Sets,
- member of editorial committees of numerous other journals of international range (i.a. Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (1997-2014), Knowledge and Information Systems ('Associate Editor'), Information Sciences ('Associate Editor'), Theoretical Computer Science, Natural Computing, Computational Intelligence, Group Decision and Negotiation ('Associate Editor'), Granular Computing),
- Member of program committees of over 100 international conferences including, in many of them, as a co-chairman of the program committee or honorary chair.
Achievements
- in the years 2012, 2016, 2017, mentioned as the only computer scientist from Poland among the most 'Highly Cited Researchers' on a list developed by ICI Thomson Reuters/ Clarivate Analytics https://hcr.clarivate.com/resources/archived-lists/,
- EurAi Fellow (EurAi - European Association for Artificial Intelligence; previously ECCAI - European Co-ordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence) https://www.eurai.org/awards_and_grants/fellows,
- IRSS Fellow https://www.roughsets.org/irss/irss-fellows-and-senior-members/,
- EU Academy of Sciences Member (since 2019)
- Stanisław Mazur PTM Award (1986) and Zygmunt Janiszewski PTM Award (1987),
- Minister of Science Award for PhD thesis,
- Minister of Education Award,
- a range of awards of the Rector of the University of Warsaw for the academic and didactic work,
- Gold Cross of Merit (2776-88-61) 1988,
- Nomination by the Faculty MIMUW, Senatue UW and Committee on Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences to the Award of the Prime Minister (2009),
- Association for Computing Machinery: Recognition of Service Award (2005),
- Oversea Friendship Award & Lifetime Contributions Award (JRS, Kanada 2013),
- Over 60 invitations for lectures to international conferences and to research institutes worldwide; i.a. Plenary lecture at the 16th IFIP World Computer Congress (Beijing 2000),
- 'honorary professor' at Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China (since 2003).
Implementations, commercializations, patents
Involvement in numerous research and commercial projects (e.g. Projects of the National Science Centre (NCN) and National Centre for Research and Development (NCBiR), inluding the projects SYNAT, SENSEI; remote control of an unmanned helicopter (Wallenberg Foundation at the Linköping University); detection of frauds during credit card transactions for Bank of America (at NuTech Solutions); logistics project for General Motors (at Nutech Solutions); algorithmic trading (at AdgaM); supporting medical decisionmaking (i.a. Cooperation with Polish-American Pediatric Clinic in Cracow).
Offer for entrepreneurs
Designing intelligent systems for various applications, new models of calculations for Data Science and inferences on the calculations based on interference, particularly pertaining supporting decision-making while controlling complex phenomena.
Professional experience
- Centrum Cyfrowej Nauki I Technologii UKSW (cooperation of academic centers with commercial companies),
- Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics University of Warsaw (1967-2018) (posts from assistant to professor ordinarius (1993-2018)),
- Deputy Dean at the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics University of Warsaw in the years 1988-1990,
- visiting professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA (1983/84 and 1985/86),
- State Committee for Scientific Research, National Science Centre and National Centre for Research and Development NCBiR (project manager or project contractor, member of the State Committee for Scientific Research, reviewer),
- member of the Committee on Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences,
- Deputy Head of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences (for many years until 02-2019),
- member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences,
- member of The Scientific Council of the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences,
Head of the Section of Mathematical Logic (1995- 2016) MIMUW,
member of the 'Advisory Board' at WIC Consortium (Japan) http://wi-consortium.org/ - 'President' IRSS (1996-2000),
- Speaker of the Senate of the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology (1994-1999),
- Editor-in-chief of the journal Fundamenta Informaticae (1995-2009), currently 'honorary editor'; member of editorial committees of numerous academic journals ,
- Supervisor in over 20 PhD theses,
- Supervisor of over 100 MA and a few dozen BA papers,
- Project manager or contractor in numerous research and commercial projects, in particular ones pertaining the design of intelligent systems for various applications,
- Over 60 invited lectures during international conferences and in research institutes worldwide.
Organizations
- Polskie Towarzystwo Matematyczne,
- American Association for Artificial Intelligence,
- Committee on Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences,
- The Polish Artificial Intelligence Society,
- The Scientific Council of the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences,
- The Scientific Council of the Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences,
- WIC Consortium (Japan) http://wi-consortium.org/,
- International Rough Set Society (IRSS),
- The International Institute of Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (Kanada)
- Editor-in-chief of the journal Fundamenta Informaticae (1995-2009), currently 'honorary editor'; member of editorial committees of numerous other academic journals.
