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Born in
Gdańsk, Poland in 1953. Graduate of the School of Mechanics and
Electricity (TME) in Gdańsk in 1973. In 1978 received his MSc degree, and
in 1986 his PhD degree, both in Automatic Control from the Gdansk
University of Technology (GUT), Poland. In 1993 achieved his DSc
degree (Dr Habilitus) in Automatic Control from the Silesian Technical
University in Gliwice, Poland. The Title of Professor was assigned to him
by the President of Poland in 2003. In 2007 he was appointed to the position of
a Tenured/Full Professor of GUT. Since 1978 he have been with the Faculty
of Electronics, Telecommunication and Computer Science (Department of Automatic
Control) at GUT, where since 1996 he works as a Professor, currently a
Full Professor in the discipline of Automatic Control and Robotics. In
2006 he established a Department of Decision Systems.
He hold visiting appointments at
University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland in 1985, Australian National University,
Canberra, Australia in 1987, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Darmstadt,
Germany in 1989, and at George Mason University, Fairfax (VA), U.S.A., in
1990-1991, where he was a Research Associate and an Adjunct Professor.
His main fields of research interests include
adaptive and predictive control, system identification, failure detection,
signal processing,
artificial
intelligence, cognitive decision-making systems,
control engineering and computer science; he
is also concerned with systems description, modeling and computer
implementation. He has authored and co-authored over 300 publications and
13 books, incl. WNT 2002, Springer 2004 (see
My Publications
for
details)
.
He had an opportunity
to serve in several community capacities, including a member of Program
Committees or Central Boards of numerous conferences (see
My English CV
for details), journals:
International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
(
http://www.amcs.uz.zgora.pl/
;
http://www.versita.com/science/computerscience/amcs/
) since 1999;
Measurements, Automatic Control and
Monitoring
(since 2002);
Institutions or Societies: Committee for Automation and Robotics of the Polish
Academy of Science (http://kair.pan.pl/)
since 2007; Polish Consultants Society (http://www.konsulting.gda.pl)
since 2003; Hewelianum
, Pomeranian Center for Promotion of Science
and Technology (http://www.grodzisko.pl)
since 2004; Polish Society for Measurements, Automatic Control and
Robotics POLSPAR (http://www.ire.pw.edu.pl/polspar)
since 2004; as well as a
chairman and co-chairman of national symposia
on control and diagnostics, and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers IEEE (Control Systems Society, Computational
Intelligence Society:
http://www.kik.pcz.czest.pl/ieee/
) since 1996.
He is also the Founder
and
</span>Editor-in-Chief
and of the Pomeranian Science and Technology Publishers (PWNT:
http://www.konsulting.gda.pl/pwnt/
).
Moreover, he had delivered above 30 invited
lectures and performed over 400 reviews for international journals and
conferences. He supervised 5 doctoral thesis and gave over 30
recommendations for scientific promotions (PhD and DSc thesis, as well as
Professor Titles), and a number of books.
He was a recipient of 1990 and 2003
Research Excellence Awards of Polish National Education Ministry, and a 1999
Polish National Science Foundation Award in Automatic Control (the so-called National Nobel
Prize).
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