Institute of Computing Science

Guide2Research regularly prepares 4 rankings (of the universities, scientists, scientific journals and conferences) for the scientific community in the fields of computer science and electronics. In their newest ranking for year 2020, Poznan University of Technology is no. 1 in Poland and no. 314 in the world (LINK). Furthermore, amongst the best polish scientists (LINK) three are from Institute of Computing Science of PUT: prof. Roman Slowinski (1st place), prof. Jacek Blazewicz (5th place) and prof. Jerzy Stefanowski (6th place in Poland).

Guide2Research ranks are based on commonly used scientometrical parameters. For universities, one of the criteria taken into account is the number of employees who are on the list of 1000 scientists with highest Hirsh index (only researchers with H-index greater than 40 according to Google Scholar are counted). There are only 7 such researchers in Poland, among whom 3 are from Poznan University of Technology. If you want to know more, watch the interview with prof. Blazewicz, done by Polish Television (LINK, in Polish). Congratulations for all distinguished!

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Three third year students at the Faculty of Computing and Telecommunications of Poznan University of Technology – Maciej Czyzewski, Daniel Nowak and Kamil Piechowiak (under supervision of prof. Jacek Blazewicz) were invited to Kennedy Space Center in the USA, where they will take part in NASA Mars 2020 mission launch (mid-July 2020).

The main goal of this mission is the further exploration of Mars surface and search for any traces of micro-organic life using Preservence – an unmanned rover. It will be carried into space by Atlas V-541 rocket (height: 58m, mass: 531t).

The invitation to participate is the award for winning this year’s NASA Space Apps Challenge in category: “Best Use of Science”. Our students created an app called “The Great Bloom Theory” during the 48 hour hackathon. This app, using data shared by NASA, can predict a month in advance where next Cyanobacteria blooms on Earth will appear. Solutions like this are utilised to prevent algal blooms, which can be harmful and create dead zones (areas with lower dissolved oxygen concentration or completely depleted of it) in the sea, where most of aquatic life can’t survive. During the launch, students will have the opportunity to compare their solution with the currently used one.

To know more, check the project and the competition websites.

It’s worth mentioning that this success was widely covered by polish media (all sources are in Polish):

• PAP
• MNiSW
• Teleexpress + TVP – Wiadomosci
• Dzien Dobry TVN
• WPROST
• TOKFM

Congratulations for the students! We wish you further success!

We are pleased to inform that prof. Joanna Jozefowska from Poznan University of Technology has been appointed as Vice President 1 in EURO Executive Committee. She has been EURO member for many years and took part in the organisation of “EURO 2016” conference in Poznan. Congratulations for this great distinction!

The Polish Accreditation Comittee rated the quality of education in the fields of Computing and Automatics and Robotics as outstanding.

Next evaluation will take place in academic year 2027/2028.

We are pleased to announce that Maciej Antczak, Ph.D., D.Sc. was classified as a Finalist of the 19th edition of the Scientific Awards of “Polityka” magazine in the field of technical sciences.
Congratulations!

See biography and information about the final (in Polish).

PhD Miłosz Kadziński received an award of Bernard Roy of EWG-MCDA. The Bernard Roy Award of EWG-MCDA is a recognition conferred to a researcher under 40 years old for an outstanding contribution to the methodology and/or applications of Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding  (MCDA).

Prof. Słowiński received the distinction of the Honorablem Member of IFORMS. It is the most significant distinction of this organization.

Two Ph.D. students from Poznań University of Technology received distinction during the annual Symposium of Polish Bioinformatics Society:
– M.Sc. Joanna Miśkiewicz: Ist place for the best oral presentation
– M.Sc. Kaja Gutowska: Ist place for the best poster
The election for the management of Polish Bioinformatics Society took place during the Symposium. Two scientists from Poznań University of Technology were elected:

– Prof. Marta Szachniuk as vice president of Polish Bioinformatics Society
– Ph.D. Piotr Łukasiak as head of Revision Committee

The University of Technology is placed at 400+ in Shanghai Ranking in field of Computing Science.

Ranking Shanghajski.

Profesor Jacek Błażewicz was interviewed for this topic at “Głos Wielkopolski”:

Link do wywiadu.