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Dr.
Marcin Paprzycki
SWPS
Computer Science Institute
SWPS:
Computer Science Institute, Warsaw School of Social Psychology
Warsaw
School of Social Psychology is one of the Top 5 Polish private Universities. It
was created in 1998 and over last 8 years has build its reputation for
aggressive growth and building high quality programs. Its main strength is
social psychology (where a Ph.D. program and Habilitazion “degree” are
already offered), but it is systematically developing programs in other
disciplines. The newest addition to the list of programs offered by SWPS is
Computer Science. This is an example how SWPS is expanding its offerings. In
this case SWPS has attracted the Scientist in Charge of this program, who has
previously spent 17 years in the US as a Ph.D. student and faculty member at a
number of Universities. They have offered him an opportunity to create a program
that will be based on his experiences collected in the US. This program was
recently approved by the Ministry of Education and will admit its first group of
students in the Fall of 2005.
To complement the Scientist in Charge, SWPS is hiring a number of top-level
computer scientists, including Prof. Roman Wyrzykowski, who is one of the lead
researcher (with worldwide recognition) in the area of cluster and Grid
computing. Furthermore a number of promising young scientists (fresh Ph.D.’s)
are about to be hired. All these scientists work somewhere in the area between
distributed computing on the one hand and computational intelligence on the
other. This means, that their research interest will match perfectly with the
goals of the proposed program. As an indication of SWPS’ commitment to high
quality research, one can point out to its co-sponsoring the Intelligent
Systems, Design and Applications conference, organized in Poland in September,
2005 as well as the XXI Fall Meeting of Polish Information Processing
Society.
CV
of the key person Dr. Marcin Paprzycki
Dr.
Marcin Paprzycki has received his MS in 1986 at Adam Mickiewicz University in
Poznań, Poland. He has entered a Ph.D. Program in Computational Mathematics
at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas in January 1987. He completed
Ph.D. in 1990 and since then he worked at a number of universities in US; most
recently in the Department of Computer Science of the Oklahoma State University.
Since receiving his Ph.D. he has published and edited more than 200 papers and
volumes. He has also delivered more than 100 contributed and 40 invited talks.
He is an Editor-in-chief of the Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices
journal and member of editorial boards of 8 other book-series and international
journals. Among these journals, the most important is the IEEE Distributed
Systems. He has been invited to serve on almost 200 Program Committees of
international conferences and experiences collected during their organization
will be utilized to support all events scheduled in the program. Furthermore, he
was elected Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Supercomputing Applications
and is currently a co-Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable
Computing that includes in its charter cluster, Grid and agent computing.
Contacts established within IEEE CS will be used to disseminate information
about the proposed events and to bring up their rank and recognition. His
original research interests were in the area of parallel computing; in
particular high performance computing methods for Numerical Linear Algebra. Over
time his interests have evolved to
include distributed computing and systems. His most recent (since 2001) research
focus is twofold: (1) computational Grids and (2) agent systems. It should be
noted that Dr. Paprzycki has just been awarded a Marie Curie Mobility IRG
(International Reintegration Grant) to be
reintegrated to Poland. This grant is in the area of applied agent systems and
is currently being negotiated with the Commission.