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Keynote and invited talks, tutorials, panels, and seminar talks

Date Event Topic
May, 2023   
Smart City Poznan - CEE Congress, Poznań, Poland Pannel discussion: AI and data: how cities of the future will use data in their development (pannelist)
Jan, 2023   
UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway Still open issues in data integration and deduplication from a perspective of industrial projects (seminar talk)
Nov, 2022   
The 24th Int. Conf. on Information Integration and Web Intelligence (iiWAS), virtual Data integration, cleaning, and deduplication: research versus reality (keynote talk)
Nov, 2022   
Department of Computer Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway On AI initiatives at Poznan University of Technology (seminar talk)
Sep, 2022   
Chief Data Officer Forum, Warsaw, Poland Studium przypadku - Współpraca przemysłu z nauką: cienie czy blaski? (invited talk)
Apr, 2022   
Erasmus Mundus Master in Big Data Management and Analytics (BDMA), Big Data Seminar Course. Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya BarcelonaTech, Barcelona, Catalunya On data integration and cleaning from a business perspective (invited lecture)
Aug, 2021   
Int. Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis (SIMPDA), hybrid, Estonia Data Warehouse and Data Lake Technologies: Selected Challenges still to be Researched (keynote talk)
Jul, 2021   
Lessons in business intelligence: application to agro-biodiversity. Organized by INRAE and AgroparisTech, virtual, France Selected challenges in data warehousing (invited lecture)
Jul, 2021   
Int. Conf. on Information Technology (ICIT), hybrid, Jordan Selected open problems in building data processing workflows (keynote talk)
Dec, 2020   
Int. Conf. on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS), virtual, Paris Still Open Problems in Data Warehouse and Data Lake Research (keynote talk)
Nov, 2020   
Pozitive Tech Conference, virtual (430 spectators) Development directions of IT in the Poznan agglomeration (panelist)
Oct, 2019   
Seminar talk at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Department of Service and Information System Engineering - ESSI Still Open Issues in ETL Design and Optimization (invited talk)
Sep, 2017   
Workshop on Novel Techniques for Integrating Big Data (BigNovelTI) @European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS), Nicosia, Cyprus Novel Big Data Integration Techniques - What is New? (panelist)
May, 2017   
Entrepôts de Données et l'Analyse en ligne (EDA), Lyon, France On Warehousing Sequential Data (invited talk)
Mar, 2017 
Samsung Electronics, Warsaw, Poland Data Integration Techniques and Architectures (tutorial)
Nov, 2016 
Int. Conf. on Conceptual Modeling (ER), Gifu, Japan Big Data and Conceptual models: Are they mutually compatible? (panelist)
Apr 2016 Polish-Swiss Innovation Day, Warsaw, Poland Innovations in business and research (panelist)
Oct 2014 Polish Business Congress (Polski Kongres Gospodarczy), Warsaw, Poland Co-operation between business and academia (panelist)
Jul 2013   
European Business Intelligence Summer School (eBISS), Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany Data Warehouse Physical Design (tutorial)
Jun, 2011 
Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica On Building Integrated and Distributed Database Systems (tutorial)

Research visits and lecturing

Dates Research center/university
Dec, 2021 (2 weeks)      
Research visit at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech, Barcelona, Catalunya
Aug-Dec, 2019 (4 months)      
Research visit at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech, Barcelona, Catalunya
Nov, 2018 (1 month)      
Visiting professor at Université Lyon 2, Lyon, France
Nov, 2018 (1 week)      
Université de Tours, Blois, France (Erasmus+ Programme)
Nov, 2015 (1 week)      
Klagenfurt University, Klagenfurt, Austria (Erasmus Programme)
Dec, 2013 (1 week)      
Klagenfurt University, Klagenfurt, Austria (Erasmus Programme)
Mar, 2013 (1 week)      
Klagenfurt University, Klagenfurt, Austria (Erasmus Programme)
Mar, 2012 (1 week)      
Klagenfurt University, Klagenfurt, Austria (Erasmus Programme)
Mar, 2012 (1 week) University of Maribor, Slovenia (Erasmus Programme)
Jun, 2011 Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica
May, 2010 (1 week) Université Lyon 2, Lyon, France
May, 2010 (1 week) Université de Poitiers, France (Erasmus Programme)
Jul, 2010 (1 week) University of Maribor, Slovenia (Erasmus Programme)
Aug-Dec, 2001 (5 mon.) Visiting professor at the Loyola University, New Orleans, USA
Dec, 2000 (1 week) Klagenfurt University (hosted by prof. J. Eder), Klagenfurt, Austria
Jul, Nov-Dec, 1995 (3 mon.) VERSO Project Group, INRIA Rocquencourt (hosted by prof. S. Abiteboul), Paris, France
Aug, 1994 (1 mon.) TEMPUS scholarship, University College of London, London, UK
Jul, 1994 (2 weeks) University of Paris Dauphine (hosted by prof. G. Jomier), Paris, France

Reviewer for the following journals and publishers
  • Data and Knowledge Engineering (Elsevier)
  • Information Sciences (Elsevier)
  • Information and Software Technology (Elsevier)
  • Information Systems (Elsevier)
  • Big Data Research (Elsevier)
  • Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier)
  • Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (Elsevier)
  • ACM Computing Survey
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Information Systems Frontiers (Springer)
  • Knowledge and Information Systems (Springer)
  • Ecological Informatics (Elsevier)
  • IEEE Multimedia Journal
  • International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining (IGI Global)
  • Journal of Data Semantics (Springer)
  • International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining (Inderscience)
  • Journal of Global Information Technology Management (Ivy League Publishing)
  • Information Systems Management (Taylor & Francis)
  • Control and Cybernetics (Polish Academy of Science)
  • International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology (Inderscience)
  • Prentice Hall
  • Springer Verlag

PC member of multiple conferences, including among others
  • DOLAP
  • DaWaK
  • ADBIS
  • SIGMOD (demo track, 2014)
  • VLDB (demo track, 2015)
  • ICDE (demo track, 2016, 2021, 2022, 2023)
  • ER
  • DATA

Advisory and Editorial Boards
since 2013            
Steering Committee member of the European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS)
since 2018            
Steering Committee member of International Workshop On Design, Optimization, Languages and Analytical Processing of Big Data (DOLAP)
Apr 2018-           
Regular editorial board member of the Data & Knowledge Engineering journal
2007-           
Advisory Board Member of the Advances in Data Warehousing and Mining book series
2003-2012           
Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology (IJWET)
2006            
Editorial Board Member of the Polish edition of book "Understanding DB2"

Conference and workshop organization
2023            
PC Co-Chair of the International Conference on Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery (DAWAK), Penang, Malaysia
2023            
General Co-Chair of the European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS), Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
2022            
PC Co-Chair of the International Conference on Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery (DAWAK), Vienna, Austria
2022            
PC Co-Chair of the European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS), Torino, Italy
2021            
PC Co-Chair of the International Conference on Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery (DAWAK), Linz, Austria, virtual
2020            
PC Co-Chair of the European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS), Lyon, virtual
2020            
Steering Committe and Organizing Committee member of the Anty-Covid Workshop (virutal)
2019            
Co-Chair of the ADBIS Workshops
2019            
PC co-Chair of the International Workshop On Design, Optimization, Languages and Analytical Processing of Big Data (DOLAP)
2018            
Organizing Committee Chair of the IFIP World Computing Congress
2018            
PC co-Chair of the International Workshop On Design, Optimization, Languages and Analytical Processing of Big Data (DOLAP)
2017            
Co-Chair of the ADBIS Workshops
2016            
PC Co-Chair of research seminar: Processing and Analysing Big Data
2015            
PC Co-Chair of the 5th IFIP Int. Conference on Computer Science and its Applications (CIIA)
2015            
PC Co-Chair of the workshop on Managing Evolving Business Intelligence Systems (MEBIS)
2015            
PC Chair and organizer of technological conference: Data Analytics & Cloud for Business
2014            
PC Chair and organizer of technological conference: Big Data & Cloud for Business
2012            
PC Co-Chair, treasurer, and co-organizer of the European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS)
2011            
Co-Chair of the ADBIS Workshops
2009            
PC Chair of the ADBIS Workshop on Managing Evolution of Data Warehouses
2009 PC Co-Chair, treasurer, and co-organizer of the 3rd National Conference on Data Processing Technologies
2007 PC Co-Chair, treasurer, and co-organizer of the 2nd National Conference on Data Processing Technologies
2005 Treasurer, industrial session chair, and co-organizer of the 1st National Conference on Data Processing Technologies
2002 Steering Committee Member and Co-Organizer of the Workshop on Object-Oriented Business Solutions
2004-2009 Programme Coordinator of the national conference on Data Warehouses and Business Intelligence
1998-2005 Programme Coordinator of the Polish Oracle User Group conference

Other works
2011-            
Reviewer of the research project proposals for the National Centre for Research and Development
2009, 2010 Member of a committee evaluating PhD grant proposals in the Human Capital Operational Programme ("Wsparcie stypendialne dla doktorantów na kierunkach uznanych za strategiczne z punktu widzenia rozwoju Wielkopolski", Poddziałanie 8.2.2 "Regionalne Strategie Innowacji", Działanie 8.2, Priorytet VIII, Program Operacyjny Kapitał Ludzki
2004- Liaison officer between IBM Poland and the Faculty of Computing at the Poznan University of Technology

PhD theses reviews
2023 Silesian University of Technology, Poland
2022 Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Catalunya, Spain and Université Libre De Bruxelles
2022 Silesian University of Technology, Poland
2020 Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Catalunya, Spain and Technische Unversitaet Dresded, Germany
2020 Universite de Toulouse, France
2020 Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
2019 Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
2019 Politecnico di Torino, Italy
2019 Saint-Petersbourg State University, Russia
2018 Silesian University of Technology, Poland
2018 Politecnico di Torino, Italy
2017 Universita di Bologna, Italy
2017 Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain and Aalborg Universitet, Denmark
2016 Silesian University of Technology, Poland
2015 University of Verona, Italy
2015 University of Warsaw, Poland
2014 Concordia University, Canada
2012 Silesian University of Technology, Poland
2012 Silesian University of Technology, Poland
2010 Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
2009 Aalborg Universitet, Denmark
2008 Military University of Technology, Poland

Habilitation theses reviews
2008 Publishing reviewer, Silesian University of Technology, Poland