Mieczyslaw Alojzy Klopotek , Dr.-Ing. habil.

Current position

• Associate Professor, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences , Warsaw, Poland, since July 2000

<klopotek@ipipan.waw.pl>

http://www.ipipan.waw.pl/~klopotek/

Institute of Computer Science
Polish Academy of Sciences
PL 01-237 Warsaw, 21 Ordona St.

Fax: (48-22) 837-65-64

Phone: (48-22) 836-28-85,836-28-41,836-28-62 ext. 45

Preceding professional experience

• 1983 - auxiliary assistant at the University of Technology Dresden
• 1984-1985 - data processing specialist at the Semiconductor Scientific Research and Production Center (CEMI) Warsaw (computer-supported planning of production)
• 1985 - assistant at the Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences , Warsaw
• 1986-1994 - senior specialist of data processing at the Semiconductor Scientific Research and Production Center (CEMI) Warsaw (computer supported supervision and control of integrated circuits production line, production planning)
• 1990-1992 - assistant at Surgery Ward of Central Clinical Hospital of the Military Medical Academy in Warsaw (medical data analysis),
• 1994-1999 - Assistant Professor at the Institute of Mathematics, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland,
• 1999-2000 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland,
• 1986-2000 - Assistant Professor, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences , Warsaw, Poland

• 1974 - Primary School completed
• 1978 - Secondary School completed with Golden Shield With Laurels award,
• 18.2.1983 - M.Sc.Eng. in computer science from the University of Technology Dresden, Germany,
  M.Sc.Eng. Thesis: Analyse von Ressourcenverteilungen.
  Supervisor: Prof. Dr.Eng.habil. Ottomar Herrlich
• 23.5.1984 - PhD. in computer science from the University of Technology Dresden, Germany.
  PhD. Thesis: Ein Beitrag zur statischen Verklemmungsvermeidung in Systemen nichtbinärer Betriebsmittel.
  Supervisor: Prof. Dr.Eng.habil. Ottomar Herrlich
• 17.12.1998 - Dr. Eng. habil. in computer science from the Institute of Computer Science of Polish Academy of Sciences .
  Habilitation thesis: Metody identyfikacji i interpretacje struktur rozkl`ado`w przekonan` w teorii Dempstera-Shafera. (in Polish: Methods of Identification and Interpretations of Belief Distributions in the Dempster-Shafer Theory).
• 21.6.1999 - Dr. Eng. habil. in computer science from the Polish Central State Commission on Academic Title and Academic Degrees.

Languages

• Polish: mother tongue,
• English - fluent in writing and speaking;
  entered into the NOT Translator Registry (Chief Technical Organisation Translator Registry) entry no 006771 (English-Polish and Polish-English translator); lectures at the Inter-Faculty English Study Center at the Warsaw University of Technology
• German - fluent in writing and speaking;
  certificate of Herder-Institut in Germany about passing examinations for advanced in 1979; M.Sc. diploma and PhD. Diploma from Dresden University of Technology; entered into the NOT Translator Registry (Chief Technical Organisation Translator Registry) entry no 006562 (German-Polish and Polish-German translator)
• Russian - sufficient for reading of professional publications;
  very good note on the high school completion certificate.

To have a detailed overview of area of activity, look at my list of recent publications See also publications before June 1999 and detailed research areas .

Expertise or Special Knowledge

Current research

Past Research Projects

1. 1986-1988 - elaboration of scientific foundations and implementation of statistical and expert system of knowledge generation SYS8688 - partiially sponsored by industry
2. 1990 - elaboration of database and statistical analysis system for pilot and main investigation of the impact of Chernobyl catastrophe in Poland within the programme M2-VII.
3. 1992-1994 - main participant in the KBN research project (KBN - State Committe for Scientific Research in Poland) No 8 8302 91 02) entitled "Experimental version of intelligent decision support system"
4. 1994-1997 - participant in research project "Consulting system in the domain of hand wound surgery", partially sponsored by Stiftung für deutsch-polnische Zusammenarbeit in Warsaw grant No 1183/94/IS
5. 1995 - participant in the KBN research project No. N-8 S503 025 05 "Application of methods of artificial intelligence for problems of task allocation and communication in multiprocessor systems"
6. 1996-1997 - participant in the KBN research project No. 8 T11C 031 10 "Design of multiagent systems: a new paradigm based on intelligent and autonomous systems for intelligent query answering"
7. 1996-1997 - participant in the KBN research project No. 8 T11C 027 10 "Knowledge discovery in distributed databases for intelligent query answering"
8. October 1997 - research at the University of North Caroline at Charlotte, USA, on integratioin of knowledge discovery systems
9. 1997 - participant in the KBN research project No. 8T11C 019 10 "Application of fuzzy logic for intelligent search and summarizing of information in databases"
10. 1997-2000 - participant in European Union research project CRIT-2, Workpackage # 3 , Workpackage Acronym: ICS-FAI) "Elaboration of Standard Internet Tools for Integration of Databases, Knowledge Bases and Reasoning Systems".
11. 1997-2000 - participant in European Union research project CRIT-2, Workpackage # 1 Workpackage Acronym: ICS-AI) "EROS: Evolutionary Real-time Optimisation System for Ecological Power Control".
12. 1997-2000 - participant in devoted KBN reserach project No. 8T11C 013 97 C/3464 "Implementation of an expert system evaluating suitability of candidates for the profession of a pilot"

• Programming C++ (at the Computer Science undergraduate Studies at the University of Podlasie)
• Programming Pascal (at the Computer Science undergraduate Studies at the University of Podlasie)
• Programming on the Internet (HTML, Java, JavaScript, PHP etc.) (at the Computer Science undergraduate Studies at the University of Podlasie)
• Databases - Introductory Course including SQL (at the Faculty of Applied Physics and Mathematics, at the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science and at the English Studies Center of Warsaw University of Technology)
• Databases - Access Via Internet (at the English Studies Center of Warsaw University of Technology)
• Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery (at the Faculty of Applied Physics and Mathematics and at the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science of Warsaw University of Technology)

1. Best Student Award from the University of Technology Dresden, 1983
2. Prize of Polish Academy of Sciences, 1990
3. Certificate of Merit for Distinguished Service of International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England, 1994
4. International Award of Recognition for Professional Achievements in Artificial Intelligence Research, American Biographical Institute, U.S.A., 1994
5. Technical Sciences Prize of the Polish Academy of Sciences for the Habilitation thesis "Methods of Identification and Interpretations of Belief Distributions in the Dempster-Shafer Theory", 2000.
6. Membership in Research Board of Advisors of the American Biographical Institute, U.S.A., 1995
7. Member of the New York Academy of Sciences, since 1996
8. 18-22.4.1994 - a series of invited lectures at the Facxulty of Computer Science of Dresden University of Technology (Germany) entitled: "Probabilistische Interpretation und Strukturierung von Dempster-Shafer Belief-Funktionen".
9. Invited lecture entitled "Structure and Motion from Multiframes" at the International Conference Computer Graphics and Image Processing GKiPO'98, Borki, 18-22 May, 1998.
10. Invited lecture entitled "3-D-Shape reconstruction of moving curved objects" at the International Conference MedTech'89 Medical Imaging, Berlin, 6-9 November, 1989.
11. Member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Mathematics , Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland, June-December 1999
12. Member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland, since October 1999
13. Member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Chemistry and Mathematics, University of Podlasie, since November 1999
14. Member of Executive Editors Board, Journal Machine Graphics and Vision, since 1995

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