About

Jarosław A. Wąs is a full professor at the AGH University of Kraków, more precisely at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering, where he leads the Department of Applied Computer Science (KIS).

After finishing his studies, he worked in several IT- and engineering-focused companies. Then, in February 2001, he started a research and teaching position at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science and Electronics (EAIE) at AGH University of Science and Technology. In 2007 he earned his PhD in Computer Science, and in 2014 he completed his habilitation (post-doctoral degree) in Computer Science (computational intelligence / artificial intelligence), while in February 2024 he obtained the title of full professor.

His research interests revolve around building intelligent IT systems for engineering applications. He works on agent systems, modeling & simulation, complex systems, GenAI and developing dedicated software tools. He has served as principal investigator and contributor in more than a dozen national and international projects.

He has supervised 6 completed PhD theses (Robert Lubaś, Jakub Porzycki, Marek Szlachetka, Michał Pikus, Grzegorz Bazior, Adam Domagała), with more currently underway. Since 2008 he has been running the student research group Glider, whose members have won dozens of awards at various conferences and competitions.

He twice chaired the program committee of the international conference Cellular Automata for Research and Industry (ACRI 2014, ACRI 2016). He also chaired the International Workshop on Complex Collective Systems (9 editions of CCS), International Joint Conference on Rough Sets (IJCRS 2023) and the IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems (FedCSIS 2025).

Detailed information about research profile and scientific publications can be found using the links:

Since 2012, he has acted as a subject-matter expert in evaluating R&D Center and Key National Cluster projects for the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Development, and the Ministry of Funds and Regional Policy. He has also served as an expert for the Polish National Development Bank (BGK) and the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) in Belgium.

Organizational Membership

• IEEE – Senior Member
• European Group for Intelligent Computing in Engineering (EG-ICE)
• Co-founder and Member of Polish Artificial Intelligence Society (PAIS) associated with EurAI
• Committee on Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences since 2020

GLIDER – Students’ Scientific Group

About GLIDER

GLIDER is a research group for students and PhD students interested in Cellular Automata, Complex Systems, Modelling and Simulation, Agent-based Modelling, and Multi-agent Systems. The group was established in 2008. I (Prof. Jarosław Wąs) serve here as the scientific coordinator. We carry out scientific projects based mainly on modelling and simulation.

Almanac – Selected Activities

• 2025: As part of the 62nd Conference of Student Scientific Circles at AGH, we won 1st place in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence section for the project “Machines can learn to cooperate – Application of Reinforcement Learning in Agent Systems.” Supervisor: Prof. Jarosław Wąs.
• 2025: At the same conference, we placed 3rd for the project “Modeling the spread of disinformation in social media: an agent-based approach.” Team: Przemysław Orlikowski, Maciej Michałek, Arkadiusz Mika, Antoni Zięciak. Supervisor: Prof. J. Wąs.
• 2025: IDUB Grant – this year we obtained and implemented a grant to develop agent-platforms. Supervisors: Prof. J. Wąs, Mgr F. Kamiński.
2024: Ministerial grant under the project “Supporting students in raising their competencies and skills.”
2024: During Science Days (“Prof. Antoni Hoborski Days”), student Antoni Zięciak (ISI EAIIB) took 3rd place in the Student Scientific Conference (Mathematics & Computer Science) for project “Efficient Discrete-System Simulation Platform” under the supervision of Prof. Wąs and Mgr Filip Kamiński.
2024: Agent-based modelling platform comparison: benchmark project for platforms such as agent.js, Jade, Mason, NetLogo, etc., led by Mgr Filip Kamiński and Prof. Wąs. The paper was presented at the Parallel Programming & Applied Mathematics 2024 conference (Ostrava, Czech Republic).
2023: Two high-impact publications with GLIDER members: GECCO Core A (140 pts) and SC23 (140 pts).
2023: During Science Days (“Prof. Hoborski Days”), the GLIDER student team (Antoni Zięciak, Bartosz Kruczek, Dominika Bocheńczyk, Maciej Krajewski, Paulina Gacek, Paweł Magnuszewski) won 2nd place in the Application section for “Comparison of agent-based modelling platforms.”
2022: Positioning of people in outdoor and indoor environments using UWB, BLE sensors and video analysis.
2022: Two publications: Journal of Computational Science (Elsevier, 100 pts) and GECCO Core A (140 pts) with GLIDER team.
2021: 1st place in Computer Science section for the paper on detection of pathological lung changes by Alicja Krzemińska, Bohdan Forostianyi, Szymon Auguścik, Piotr Maliszewski.
2021: 2nd place for the project “Rocky Road to AI – preparing an introductory course in AI,” team under Mgr Mateusz Ślażyński.
2020: Summer Project Workshop: 9 student projects supervised weekly in summer by GLIDER mentors.
2020: At the International Conference of Polish Hospital Directors: “Simulation of COVID-19 spread in HPC environment” – Jarosław Wąs, Maciej Bielech, Piotr Morawiecki, Paweł Gałka, Marcin Grzyb, Aleksander Byrski, Wojciech Turek.
2020: International cooperation: Paweł Renc and Tomasz Pęcak collaborated with Prof. William Spataro, Dr Alessio Del Rango, and Prof. Wąs on “Efficient Hydrodynamic Model Implementation in GPGPU Architecture.”
2019: Large research project with APTIV on the autonomous vehicle simulator “CARLA” at AGH.
2019: 2nd place at Parallel Processing & Applied Mathematics conference for “Crowd pressure – simulating pedestrian motion via modified Social Force model.” Team: Karolina Tytko, Agnieszka Pękala, Maria Mamica, Prof. Wąs.
2019: Three papers accepted and presented at PPAM: “Crowd Pressure …”, “Traffic Prediction …”, “HPC Large-Scale Pedestrian Simulation Based on Proxemics Rules” (with P. Renc, M. Bielech, T. Pęcak, P. Morawiecki, M. Paciorek, W. Turek, A. Byrski, J. Wąs).
2018: Projects “Estimote Location Beacons” and “Intelligent Diet” carried out by GLIDER students with support from the AGH Foundation.
2017: Student Scientific Circles Conference: team (Kacper Jawoszek, Marcin Oczko, Dominik Adamiak, Katarzyna Błaszczyk) won first place for “Civilization growth simulation” under supervision of Mgr Jakub Porzycki; Krzysztof Czuryło got a distinction for “Indoor localization using Beacon”.
2016: At the 53rd Session of Student Scientific Circles AGH: GLIDER got 2nd place for “Pedestrian dynamics simulation via Social Force” (Michał Suwała) and 3rd place for “Car traffic simulation via data-driven modelling” (Grzegorz Tokarz).
2015: In the 46th edition of the national competition for the best BSc and MSc theses in transport, GLIDER students won: 1st place for “Pedestrian flow simulation in a shopping mall” (Paweł Kłeczek) and distinction for “Evacuation tunnel simulation” (Jakub Rakoczy).
2014: Engineering thesis by Artur Karp & Szymon Łukasik “Fire modeling in buildings using cellular automata” won 1st place in the nationwide competition.
2013: During the 50th Jubilee Session of Student Scientific Circles AGH, 4 projects were presented: evacuation simulation, Formula-1 simulation, etc. Project “Pedestrian evacuation modelling” by Robert Lubas & Wojciech Myśliwiec took 1st place.
2012: At the 49th Session of Student Scientific Circles AGH, Filip Dziedzic, Michał Pałka & Rafał Studnicki took 2nd place for “URBANSIM – speed simulator of movement in urban area”; Jakub Porzycki took 3rd place with “Social trends.”
2011: At the 48th Session of Student Scientific Circles AGH: 2nd place (Szymon Łukasik, Artur Karp, Dorota Wojtałów, Jacek Złydach) for “Simulation of smoke & fire spread via cellular automata”; 3rd place: Bartłomiej Pisulak “Investment rules generation with genetic programming”; distinction: Michał Czajka “Pedestrian movement simulation in public transport” and Jakub Porzycki “Vision interface for gesture control.”
2010: 1st place in Management & Finance: Bartłomiej Pisulak “Simulation of investor behavior on the stock market using cellular automata & Ising model”; 2nd place in Applied Computer Science: Alicja Jaśkiewicz & Jakub Porzycki “Influenza epidemic simulation”; distinction: Piotr Jakubas & Artur Kosztyła “Crowd modeling with agent systems.”
2008–2009: Several distinctions in Student Scientific Circle sessions, including projects on modeling and simulation of complex systems.