Prof Piotr A. Kowalski

Prof. Piotr A. Kowalski holds the position of Professor at the AGH University of Science and Technology, working at the Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, as well as at the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He earned his Master’s degree in Teleinformatics and Automatic Control (both with honours) from the Cracow University of Technology in 2003, followed by a Ph.D. in Data Science from the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2009. In 2018, he achieved the D.Sc. (habitation) degree in Artificial Neural Networks at the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2019, he was appointed as a University Professor at AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow. His research interests lie in the field of information technology, with a primary focus on modern neural network architectures, explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), fuzzy systems, and nature-inspired algorithms, particularly in applications to complex systems and knowledge discovery.

Hi is a member of the Polish Information Processing Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, particularly the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. Currently, he serves as an editor and a member of the editorial board for several scientific journals, and he is a member of the scientific committee for numerous prestigious scientific conferences. Furthermore, he is a member of the Discipline Council for Information and Communication Technology at AGH and the Scientific Council of NASK PIB. Additionally, he is a reviewer of numerous academic nominations (PhD, DSc), research grants and scientific articles, contributing his expertise to assessing scientific achievements in various fields.