I'm an associate professor affiliated to Laboratory of Intelligent Decision Support Systems, Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology.
My LinkedIn profile, ResearchGate profile, and ACM publication page.
Membership
- Associate Editor of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines journal (Springer),
- Committee on Informatics of Polish Academy of Sciences,
- IEEE,
- SIGEVO, ACM Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation,
- AAAI, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
- Association for Image Processing (Polish Member Society of the International Association for Pattern Recognition),
- The International Machine Learning Society
- Komisja Cybernetyki Technicznej at Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań Branch
- IEEE Task Force on Evolutionary Computer Vision and Image Processing,
- In 2002/2003 I had worked with Bir Bhanu at VISLAB, University of California, Riverside.
Selected research grants
- New Computational Paradigms for Explanatory Modeling of Complex Systems (Nowe Paradygmaty Obliczeniowe dla Konstrukcji Wyjaśniających Modeli Systemów Złożonych), National Science Center grant #DEC-2011/01/B/ST6/07318, 2011-2014 (project webpage)
- Evolutionary learning systems for artificial and real-world environments (Ewolucyjne systemy uczące się w środowiskach rzeczywistych i wirtualnych), Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education Research Grant #N N519 3505 33, 2007-2010 (project webpage)
- Integration of machine learning with decision support for image-based decision support (Integracja uczenia maszynowego ze wspomaganiem decyzji na podstawie informacji obrazowej), Polish Committee for Scientific Research Grant 8T11C 021 16, 1999-2001, closed with final evaluation: excellent.
- Automatic Design and Synthesis of ATR (Automatic Target Recognition) Systems using Hybrid Learning Paradigms. US AFRL (Air Force Research Laboratory) grant, 1999-2003.
- Algorithms transforming data representation for machine learning systems, Polish Committee for Scientific Research Grant 3 T11C 050 26 (summary).
Awards, fellowships and stipends
- 2013-2014 Fulbright Senior Research Award Grant, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
- 2008, First place in the Balanced Diet competition, organized at the GECCO 2008 conference, together with my Ph.D. students, Wojciech Jaśkowski and Bartosz Wieloch.
- 2007, First place in the Ant Wars Competition, organized at the GECCO 2007 conference, together with my Ph.D. students, Wojciech Jaśkowski and Bartosz Wieloch.
- 2005, Minister of National Education award
- 2003, Conference fellowship from the Foundation for Polish Science (Fundacja na Rzecz Nauki Polskiej)
- 2001, Award in the contest for best Ph.D. thesis of the year organized by Foundation for Systems Sciences Development (Fundacja Krzewienia Nauk Systemowych) of Polish Academy of Sciences,
- 2001, Minister of National Education award,
- 2000, Award of the Association for Image Processing (Polish Member Society of the International Association for Pattern Recognition) in the contest for best Ph.D. thesis of the year,
Conferences
- Program co-chair of EuroGP 2014, 17th European Conference on Genetic Programming, part of Evo*, organized by J.J. Merelo in Baeza, Spain.
- Program co-chair of EuroGP 2013, 16th European Conference on Genetic Programming, part of Evo*, April 3-5, Vienna, Austria.
- Publication Chair of EuroGP 2012, 15th European Conference on Genetic Programming, Malaga, Spain, 11-13th April, 2012
- Program Committee member of GECCO, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (ACM): 2012, Philadelphia, USA, 2011, Dublin, Ireland, 2010, Portland, Oregon, 2009, Montreal, Canada, 2008, Atlanta, Georgia,
- Program Committee member of CEC, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation: 2013, Cancun, Mexico, 2012, Brisbane, Australia, 2010, Barcelona, Spain (part of WCCI 2010), 2009, Trondheim, Norway; 2008, Hong Kong (part of WCCI 2008); 2007, Singapore,
- Program Committee member of EuroGP, European conference on Genetic Programming: 2011, Turin, Italy; 2010, Istanbul, Turkey; 2009, Tübingen, Germany; 2008, Naples, Italy,
- Program Committee member of PPSN, International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature: 2010, Krakow, Poland, 2012, Taormina, Italy, 2014, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Program Committee member of EvoIASP, European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis and Signal Processing: 2011, Turin, Italy; 2010, Istanbul, Turkey; 2009, Tübingen, Germany; 2008, Naples, Italy,
- Program Committee member of IEEE Intelligent Systems Intelligent Systems IS’14 Conference, Warsaw, Poland, September 24-26, 2014
- Program Committee member of International Conference on Medical Imaging using Bio-inspired and Soft Computing (MIBISOC 2013), 15 – 17 May 2013, Brussels, Belgium.
- Program Committee member of HIAI, The AAAI-13 Workshop on Expanding the Boundaries of Health Informatics using AI, held at AAAI-13, the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
- Program Committee member of EvoGAMES, European Workshop on Bio-inspired Algorithms in Games: 2011, Turin, Italy; 2010, Istanbul, Turkey; 2009, Tübingen, Germany,
- Scientific Committee member of ICCVG, International Conference of Computer Graphics and Vision ICCVG 2010, September 20-22
- Program Committee member of ISA2008, First International Conference on Information Security and Assurance, April 24-26, 2008, Busan, Korea
- Program Committee member of SEAL, International Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning: 2008, Melbourne, Australia, 2014, Dunedin, New Zealand
- Program Committee member of RSKT'08, 3rd International Conference on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology, Chengdu, China, May 17-19, 2008
- Program Committee member of 2007 Joint Rough Set Symposium JRS07, Toronto, May 14-16, 2007
- Program Committee member of Second Doctoral Symposium on Recent Advances in Information Technology, a satellite event of FedCSIS 2014
- Program Committee member of Coevolution Workshop at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2004, June 26-30, 2004
- Program Committee member of IEEE Workshops on Learning in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conferences): 2003, 2004
- Program Committee member of ECML/PKDD-2002 Workshop (IDDM-2002) 2nd International Workshop on Integration and Collaboration Aspects of Data Mining, Decision Support and Meta-Learning, Helsinki, Finland, 19th August 2002
- Program Committee member of KAEiOG'09, XII Krajowa Konferencja "Algorytmy Ewolucyjne i Optymalizacja Globalna", 31 maja-1 czerwca 2009, Zawoja, Poland
Applications and real-world problems
- generic object recognition in visible spectrum (e.g., objects from COIL databases)
- object recognition in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images (MSTAR) database,
- medical decision support based on clinical data and imagery,
- handwritting recognition and sketch interpretation,
Teaching activities