Curriculum Vitae

Present positions

  • 1st position: Full Professor in Department of Computer Science,
    Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics,
    Computer Science and Electronics,
    AGH University of Science and Technology. Head of the Intelligent Information Systems Group (IISG)
  • 2nd position: Professor in Bielsko College of Business and Computer Science,
    Head of Depatrment of Computer Systems,
    Head of specialization Software Engineering and Network Systems

Qualifications

Nominated Professor, PhD DSc

Education

  • Cracow University of Technology 1973-1979 ,
  • Jagiellonian University, Institute of Computer Science, 1975-1980,
  • Ph.D. - Cracow University of Technology, 1984,
  • Habilitation - Cracow University of Technology, 1991.
  • Professor's title granted by the President of the Republic of Poland, 30th June , 2003
  • Full professors position granted by the Ministry of Education of Poland, 1th January , 2006

Participation in Postgraduate Courses

  • "Computer Aided Optimal Design of Structures", in frame of European Program for Advanced Education, Trento, Italy 1991,
  • "Advanced topics in Neural Networks and image processing", in frame of TEMPUS JEP No 4349-92/1, Athens, Greece 1993 - 1995.

Selected areas of research

  • Evolutionary algorithms, memetic algorithms-stochastic theory,
  • Adaptive, multi-deme evolutionary schemes for solving inverse problems,
  • Multiagent computing systems
  • Diffusive task scheduling in the stochastic virtual MIMD architectures,
  • Parallel processing in CAE, distributed FEM solvers,
  • Object-oriented environments for concurrent design,
  • Theory of nonlinear fluid filtration,
  • Monotone operators and theory of nonlinear PDEs of elliptic and parabolic type, inverse problems,
  • Theory of FE/FD schemes,
  • Optimal control in water-supply and flood-protection systems.

Academic experience

    1st positions
  • Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science and Electronics,
  • Stanisław Staszic University of Science and Technology, since 2005.
  • Jagiellonian University, Institute of Computer Science, since 1989 to 2005 (1992 to 2005 vice-director for general affairs).
  • Institute of Meteorology and Water Management, 1979-1989.
    2nd positions
  • 1998-1999 University of Illinois in Chicago (Associate Professor)
  • Bielsko College of Business and Computer Science since 1996, Head of Computer Systems Department,
  • Cracow University of Technology, (Head of Division of Parallel Processing and Computer Networks), 1995-1999,
  • Kielce University of Technology, 1993-1995.

Teaching Experience

    Bachelor (BS) courses
  • Operating Systems,
  • Computer Networks and Distributed Programming,
  • Software Engineering,
  • Mathematical Statistics,
  • PASCAL programming.
    Graduate (MS) courses
  • Advanced Topics in Software Engineering (Distributed, Real-Time Systems), The course sponsored by Motorola in frame of Univ. of Illinois at Chicago MS programme.
  • Operating Systems,
  • Concurrency Theory,
  • Computer Networks,
  • Partial Differential Equations,
  • Variational Equations,
  • Mathematical Models in Continuum Mechanics,
  • Finite Element Method,
  • Simulation of Continuous and Digital Systems,
  • Introduction to the Computer Science,
    Ph.D. courses
  • Evolutionary Methods in Artificial Intelligence
  • Partial Differential Equations, Variational Equations,
  • Finite Element and Finite Difference Method.
    Short Ph.D. courses (less than 15 hours)
  • Concurrency in Computational Mechanics,
  • Distributed Optimal Design Algorithms.
    Seminars
  • Computing Multi Agent Systems (CMAS),
  • Stochastic Control in Computer Networks,
  • OCTOPUS - Object Oriented Distributed CAD Environments.

Ph.D. Thesis supervised (already defended)

  • Zdzisław Onderka, Stochastic Control of the Large Scaleable Distributed Applications. Applications in Computational Mechanics (Stochastyczne sterowanie wielkimi rozproszonymi aplikacjami skalowalnymi); AGH University of Science and Technology. defended at 1997.06.26.
  • Henryk Telega, Parallel algorithms for solving selected inverse problems (Równoległe algorytmy rozwiązywania wybranych zagadnień odwrotnych); AGH University of Science and Technology, defended at 2000.05.25.
  • Maciej Paszyński, Algorithms of Blood Flow Simulations in Cardiovascular System (Algorytmy modelowania przepływu krwi w centralnym układzie krążenia); Jagiellonian University, defended at 2003.05.15.
  • Joanna Kołodziej, Chierarchic Genetic Strategy of Solving Global Optimization Problems (Hierarchiczne strategie genetycznej optymalizacji globalnej); Jagiellonian University, defended at 2004.01.08. Finalist of the Grzegorz Białkowski Ph.D. Award in 2004.
  • Piotr Kalita, Algorithms for solving nonlinear problems in the artery dynamics; Jagiellonian University, defended at 2005.06.23. Finalist of the ECCOMAS Ph.D. Thesis Award 2006.
  • Marek Grochowski, Agent- and Object-Oriented Strategies for High Performance Computing in a Computer Network; Polish-Japanese Institute of Computer Techniques, defended at 2009.03.25.

Reviewer at scientific journals

  • Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
  • Lecture Notes in Computer Intelligence.
  • IEEE Transactions in Evolutionary Computing.
  • IEEE Transactions in Neural Networks.
  • International Journal of Metaheuristics.
  • Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications
  • Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics CAM
  • Journal of Computational Science, Elsevier.
  • International Journal of Thermal Sciences. Elsevier.
  • Computational Intelligence.
  • Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence EAAI.
  • Information Sciences: An International Journal.
  • European Journal of Operational Research EJOR.
  • Machine Graphics and Vision.
  • Computer Assisted Mechanics and Engineering Sciences CAMES.
  • Applied Mathematics and Computer Science AMCS.
  • Ecology and Society.
  • Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering AJSE.
  • Archives of Control Sciences.
  • Archives of Mechanics, Engineering Transactions.
  • Computer Science.
  • Schedae Informaticae.
  • Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.
  • Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences.
  • Acta Scientarium Polonorum.
  • Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
  • Zeszyty Naukowe Akademii Techniczno-Humanistycznej w Bielsku-Białej

Membership of steering committees

  • Steering Committee of the series of International Conferences on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature PPSN (since December 2010).

Selected chairmanships and membership of scientific conferences committees

  1. PC member of 12th Conf. Computer Methods in Mechanics, Warszawa - Zegrze, Poland, May 1995,
  2. PC member of 7th International Conference on Engineering Computer Graphics and Descriptive Geometry, Kraków, Poland, July 1996,
  3. PC member 13 Conference Computer Methods in Mechanics PCCMM'99, Poznań, Poland, May 1997,
  4. PC member 2nd Polish Conf. Evolutionry Algorithms and Global Optimization, KAEiOG'97, Rytro, Poland, September 1997,
  5. Main organizer of The Agent Day'98, Kraków, Poland 1998.
  6. Program Committee, 1st International Conference Rough Sets & Current Trends in Computing, Warsaw, Poland, June 1998.
  7. PC member of 14en Conf. PCCMM'99, "Computer Methods in Mechanics", Rzeszów, Poland, May 1999.
  8. PC member 3rd Polish Conf. Evolutionry Algorithms and Global Optimization, KAEiOG'99, Potok Złoty, Poland, 1999.
  9. Main organizer of the Workshop "The Agent Day'99", Kraków, Poland 1999.
  10. Program Committee, 3rd International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics PPAM'99, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland, September 1999.
  11. Main organizer of the Workshop "The Agent Day'2K", Kraków, Poland 2000.
  12. PC member 4th Polish Conf. Evolutionry Algorithms and Global Optimization KAEiOG'00, Lądek Zdrój, Poland 2000.
  13. Program Committee, 4th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics PPAM'01, Nałęczów, Poland, September 2001.
  14. PC member 5th Polish Conf. Evolutionry Algorithms and Global Optimization KAEiOG'00, Jastrzębia Góra, Poland 2001.
  15. Program Committee, 2nd International Workshop of Central and Eastern Europe on Multi-Agent Systems, CEEMAS'2001, Kraków, Poland, September 2001.
  16. Program Committee, The Second International Conference on Philosophy and Computer Science PERVS'01 "Processes of Evolution in Real and Virtual Systems", Kraków, Poland, January 2002.
  17. Member of the National Scientific Committee of the 15th International Conference on Computer Methods in Mechanics, CMM-2003, 3-6 June 2003, Gliwice-Wisła, Poland.
  18. Member of the Scientific Committee of the 3rd Symposium on Methods of Artificial Intelligence AIMETCH'02, Gliwice, Poland, November 2002.
  19. Member of the Program Committee of the 3rd International/Central and Eastern Europe Conference on Multi-Agent Systems CEEMAS'2003, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2003.
  20. Chair of the session ICCAM-2002 (International Congress on Computational and Applied Mathematics), Leuven, Belgium, July 2002.
  21. Chair of the session Parallel Applications na konferencji PARELEC'2002 (International Conference on Parallel Computing in Electrical Engineering), Warsaw, Poland, September 2002.
  22. Chair of the session at IUTAM'02 Symposium on Evolutionary Methods in Mechanics, 27 September 2002, Cracow, Poland.
  23. Steering Committee of the workshop "The Agent Day 2002", 12 - 13.12.2002, Belfort, France.
  24. Chair of the session Applications and architectures, the workshop "The Agent Day 2002", 12, 13.12.2002, Belfort, France.
  25. Member of the Scientific Committee of the 4th Symposium on Methods of Artificial Intelligence AIMETCH'03, Gliwice, Poland, November 5-7, 2002.
  26. PC member 6th Polish Conf. Evolutionry Algorithms and Global Optimization KAEiOG'03,, Lagów Lubuski, Poland 2003.
  27. Program Committee, 5th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics PPAM'03, Częstochowa, Poland, September 2003.
  28. Member of the National Scientific Committee of the 16th International Conference on Computer Methods in Mechanics CMM-2005, Częstochowa, Poland, June 2005.
  29. PC member 7th Polish Conf. Evolutionry Algorithms and Global Optimization KAEiOG'04, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland 2004.
  30. Member of the Local Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Computational Science ICCS'2004, June 2004, Kraków, Poland.
  31. Co-organizers of the Workshop W12 The Agent Day 2004 - Intelligent Agents in Computing Systems at International Conference on Computational Science ICCS'2004, June 2004, Kraków, Poland.
  32. Main organizer of the Workshop The Agent Day'04 - Agents and Softcomputing, Poland, Kraków 2004.
  33. Scientific Committee of AIMETH'04 Symposium of Methods of Artificial Intelligence, November 17-19, 2004, Gliwice, Poland.
  34. Program Committee of The 4th International Central and Eastern European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems CEEMAS'05, Budapest, Hungary, 12-14, September 2005.
  35. Program Committee, 6th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics PPAM'05, Poznań, Poland, September 2005.
  36. Program Committee, TASC'04 Theory and Applications of Soft Computing, International Workschop, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, November 2004, Warsaw, Poland.
  37. PC member 8th Polish Conf. Evolutionry Algorithms and Global Optimization KAEiOG'05, Korbielów, Poland 2005.
  38. Scientific Committee of AI-METH'05 Symposium nf Methods of Artificial Intelligence, November 2005, Gliwice, Poland
  39. Program Committee, International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IEEE/IAT 2005), September, 2005, Compičgne University of Technology, France.
  40. Co-organizer of the Workshop W09 - Intelligent Agents in Computing Systems -The Agent Days 2005 in Atlanta at International Conference on Computational Science ICCS'2005, May 25th, 2005, Atlanta, USA.
  41. Chair of the session Intelligent Agents in Computing Systems -The Agent Days 2005 in Atlanta Workshop W09 at International Conference on Computational Science ICCS'2005, May 25th, 2005, Atlanta, USA.
  42. Co-organizer and PC member of the Conference The Agent Days'2005, 7-8.07.2005, Malaga, Spain.
  43. Chair of the Session #2 at The Agent Days'2005, 7.07.2005, Malaga, Spain.
  44. Chair of the session Biomedical Engineering II at 7th International Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Scattering Theory and Biomedical Engineering, September 10, 2005, Nymphiao, Greece.
  45. Program Committee, The Fifth International Conference on Engineering Computational Technology, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 12-15 September 2006.
  46. Program Committee, Computer Methods and Systems CMS'05, Kraków, Poland, November 2005.
  47. Organizer and chair of the special session on Methods of Genetic Programming at the conference Computer Methods and Systems CMS'05, Kraków, Poland, November 2005.
  48. Member of the Scientific Committee of Symposium on Methods of Artificial Intelligence AI-METH'05, 16-18 November, 2005, Gliwice, Poland.
  49. Chair of the session No. 7 at AI-METH'05 Symposium on Methods of Artificial Intelligence, November 18, 2005, Gliwice, Poland.
  50. Scientific Committee of the Eighth International Conference Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ICAICS), Zakopane, Poland, June 2006.
  51. Program Committee, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2006), Vancouver, Canada, July 2006.
  52. PC member 5th Polish Conf. Evolutionry Algorithms and Global Optimization KAEiOG'06, Murzasichle, Poland, 2006.
  53. Program Committee, Non-Darwinian Evolutionary Computation Special Track at the 18th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2006), November 2006 in Washington D.C.
  54. Member of the Scientific Committee of AI-METH'06 Workshop on Heuristic Modeling of Objects and Processes, Ustron, Poland, September 2006.
  55. Program Committee of ICTAI-2006, the 18 IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (main track), Washington, November 2006.
  56. Co-organizer of the Workshop W020 - Intelligent Agents in Computing Systems at International Conference on Computational Science ICCS'2006, May 2006, Reading, UK.
  57. Chair of the Workshop W20 Intelligent Agents in Computing Systems at International Conference on Computational Science ICCS'2006, May 30-31, 2006, Reading, UK.
  58. Member of the National Scientific Committee of the 17 International Conference on Computer Methods in Mechanics CMM-2007, June 2007, Lódz, Poland.
  59. Member of the program committee for EvoFin - the 1st European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Finance. The workshop will be held as part of EuroGP 2007 (10th European conference on Genetic Programming), Valencia, Spain, April 2007.
  60. Co-organizer of the Workshop W064 - Intelligent Agents in Computing Systems at International Conference on Computational Science ICCS'2007, May 2007, Beijing, China.
  61. Member of the program committee of the 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2007), Austin, Texas, September 2007.
  62. PC member 5th Polish Conf. Evolutionry Algorithms and Global Optimization KAEiOG'07, Bedlewo, Poland, 2007.
  63. Member of the program committee of the 7th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM 2007), Poland (Gdansk), September 2007.
  64. Member of the Scientific Committee of the Symposium on Methods of Artificial Intelligence AI-METH'07, November 2007, Gliwice, Poland.
  65. Member of the Scientific Committee of the 9th ICAISC International Conference "Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing", Zakopane, Poland, June 2008.
  66. Program Committee for EvoFin 2008 (the second European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Finance). The workshop will be a part of EuroGP 2008, Naples, Italy, March 2008.
  67. Program Committee of the 2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2008), June 1-6, 2008 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The Congress is a part of 2008 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2008).
  68. Co-organizer of the Workshop W14 - Intelligent Agents and Evolvable Systems at International Conference on Computational Science ICCS'2008, June 23-25, Kraków, Poland.
  69. Chair of the session W14d of the Workshop Intelligent Agents and Evolvable Systems at International Conference on Computational Science ICCS'2008, June 25, Kraków, Poland.
  70. Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Workshop on Intelligent Computational Methods and Applied Mathematics ICMAM'2008, March 28-31, Kraków 2008, Poland.
  71. Chair of the session V at the European Workshop on Intelligent Computational Methods and Applied Mathematics ICMAM'2008, March 30, Kraków 2008, Poland.
  72. PC member 5th Polish Conf. Evolutionry Algorithms and Global Optimization Komitet Naukowy XI Krajowej Konferencji KAEiOG'08 "Algorytmy Ewolucyjne i Optymalizacja Globalna", Szymbark, 2008.06.02-04.
  73. Member of the National Scientific Committee of the 18 International Conference on Computer Methods in Mechanics CMM-2009, May 18-21, 2007, Zielona Góra 2009.
  74. Chair of the session MS149-I of the mini symposium Multiscale Methods in Computer Material Sciences at the 5th World Congress on Computational Mechanics WCCM8, Venice, Italy, 4 July 2008.
  75. Program Committee of the 2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2009), Trondheim, Norway, 18-21 May 2009.
  76. European Scientific Programme Committee EUROGRN 2009 Evolutionary and deterministic Methods for Design, Optimization and Control with Applications to Industrial and Societal Problems, Cracov, Poland, June 2009.
  77. Programme Committee of the Eight International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM 2009), 13 - 16 September 2009.
  78. Programme Committee of EvoFin 2009 (the third European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Finance). The workshop will be a part of EuroGP 2009, Tubingen, Germany, April 2009.
  79. Programme Committee of HAIS'09 (the 4th International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems), June 2009 Salamanca, Spain.
  80. Scientific Committee of the KAEiOG'09 "Algorytmy Ewolucyjne i Optymalizacja Globalna", Zawoja, Poland 2009.
  81. Scientific Committee of the AI-METH 2009 the International Symposium on Methods of Artificial Intelligence, Gliwice, Poland, November 18-20, 2009.
  82. Programme Committee of EvoFin 2010 (the fourth European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Finance). The part of EvoStar 2010, Istanbul, April 2010.
  83. Programme Committee of EvoComplex 2010 (European Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms and Complex Systems). The part of EvoStar 2010, Istanbul, Turkey April 2010.
  84. Scientific Committee of the 10th International Conference Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, Zakopane, Poland, June 13-17, 2010.
  85. Programme Committee of the Workshop Agent-Based Simulation, Adaptive Algorithms and Bio Computing in frames of the ICCS 2010 (International Conference on Computational Science) Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 31 - June 2, 2010.
  86. General Chair of the 11th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature PPSN 2010, Kraków, Poland, September 11-15, 2010.
  87. Scientific Committee of the 5th International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems HAIS10, San Sebastián, Spain, June, 2010.
  88. Track Programmee Committee of the 25th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications IEEE AINA 2011, Biopolis, Singapore, March, 2011.
  89. Scientific Committee of the 19th International Conference on Computer Methods in Mechanics CMM 2011, May, 2011, Warsaw, Poland.
  90. International Advisory Board of the 25th (Jubilee) European Conference on Modelling and Simulation ECMS 2011, June, Kraków, Poland.
  91. Programme Committee of EvoFin 2011 (the fourth European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Finance). The part of EvoStar 2011, Toirino, Italy, April 2011.
  92. Scientific Committee of the 6th International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems HAIS11, Wrocław, Poland, May 2011.
  93. Advisory Scientific Board of the 2nd International Conference on Inverse Problems in Mechanics of Structures and Materials IPM 2011, Sieniawa, Poland April 2011.

Editing

  1. (with Stanisław Sędziwy) Special Issue of Schedae Informaticae, Vol 10, "Proceedings of the Conference The Agent Day'99", Jagiellonian University Press, Kraków 2000,.
  2. (with Stanisław Sędziwy) Advances in Multi-Agent Systems, Jagiellonian University Press, Kraków 2001.
  3. (with Carlos Cotta) International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Zielona Góra Press, Special Issue on Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 14, No. 3, 2004.
  4. (with Carlos Cotta, Simeon Reich, Antoni Ligeza) Knowledge-Driven Computing. Knowledge Engineering and Intelligent Computations. Springer Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 102, 2008, XVIII, ISBN: 978-3-540-77474-7.
  5. (with Carlos Cotta, Joanna Kołodziej, Günter Rudolph) Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN XI, Part 1, LNCS 6238, Springer Verlag 2010.
  6. (with Carlos Cotta, Joanna Kołodziej, Günter Rudolph) Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN XI, Part 2, LNCS 6238, Springer Verlag 2010.

Universities Visited

  • University of Trento, Italy, 1991,
  • Instituto di Meccanica Teorica ed Applicata, University of Udine, Italy, 1991, 1993,
  • Instituto di Meccanica Struttura, University of Udine, Italy, 1995, 1998,
  • Institute of Computer Science, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 1993, 1994, 1995,
  • RISC (Research Institute for Symbolic Computations) University of Linz, Austria, 1994,
  • Institut für Informatik, Basel, Switzerland, 1996, 1997,
  • Institut für Dataverarbeitung, Ruhr Universität, Bochum, Germany, 1996,
  • University of Illinois, Chicago, USA, 1999,
  • University of Malaga, Spain, 2008.

Hobby

  • Long distance swimming (Polish Country Record in 1985),
  • skiing, hiking and climbing,
  • scouting,
  • classic guitar playing,
  • ancient music,
  • landscape photography.

 

 

 
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