CURRICULUM VITAE OF MACIEJ KOMOSINSKI

Personal details

Name: Maciej Komosinski
Nationality: Polish
Sex: male
Phone (work): +48 (61) 665 2931
Fax (work): +48 (61) 877 1525
E-Mail: Maciej.Komosinski@cs.put.poznan.pl
Homepage: http://www.cs.put.poznan.pl/mkomosinski/

Education

Poznan University of Technology.
    Ph.D. in Computer Science, with honors.

Poznan University of Technology (5 years).
    M.Sc. in Computer Science, with honors. Specialization: Intelligent Decision Support Systems.
    Winner of the ‘best programmer’ contest.
    Twice, participant of the ‘group programming’ contest.

Professional employment

2001-now: Assistant Professor at the Institute of Computing Science (Intelligent Decision Support Systems Lab.), Poznan University of Technology.
1998-2000: Research-Teaching Assistant at the Institute of Computing Science , Poznan University of Technology.

Professional membership

IEEE, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
EvoNet, Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computation

Activities

Research
Software development
Lectures and laboratory classes
Invited lectures and presentations
European IST projects
Commercial enterprises

Skills

Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English (CAE)
Basic knowledge of German
Driving license
In the computer science field:

Optimization and Artificial Intelligence/Life
Computer decision support
Machine learning, data mining, and knowledge discovery
UNIX/Linux, MS Windows, Novell
Databases: practical knowledge of SQL (Oracle), PSQL (Postgres), Microsoft Access, DBASE/CLIPPER
Programming languages: C++, JAVA, Pascal, CLIPS, Prolog, LISP, and others: Basic, low-level assemblers, sh/csh/bash, AWK, LEX, YACC, MODSIM, Borland OWL & VCL, PHP, POV-Ray

Awards

Foundation for Polish Science awards (2004, 2005)
Ph.D. Thesis, distinguished
Award for outstanding research results in the field of Artificial Life, received at the ECAL '99 conference (Lausanne, Switzerland)
M.Sc. Thesis, distinguished

Interests

Playing music (piano), listening to good music, playing tennis, bridge, and go; skiing. Especially interested in the following fields of computer science:

evolutionary and genetic algorithms, optimization
simulation, artificial life, evolution, learning, virtual worlds
artificial intelligence, neural networks and machine learning; knowledge discovery/data mining; constructive induction
analysis and recognition of patterns, images; signal analysis and speech recognition; biomedical applications
games and playing algorithms/strategies