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Grzegorz Jacek Nalepa - Curriculum Vitae

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prof. dr hab. inż. Grzegorz J. Nalepa

E-mail: <gjn * GJN.re>, <grzegorz.j.nalepa * uj.edu.pl>

WWW: http://GJN.re

Address: Grzegorz J. Nalepa
Institute of Applied Computer Science
Faculty of Physics, Astronomy, and Applied Computer Science
Jagiellonian University
Stanislawa Lojasiewicza 11, 30-348 Kraków, POLAND

See my detailed scientific profile.

Professional Background

Education & Degrees

Prizes and Awards

  • 2018 – I received a prize for the outstanding monograph in computer science from the Committee of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences
  • 2018 – I received (together with Barbara Giżycka) the Popular Choice Award for the paper of the workshop HAI2018 at IJCAI2018
  • 2012 – I received a prestigious scholarship and scientific award of POLITYKA weekly for the most promising scientific achievements in technical sciences in Poland. Also covered by the AGH UST.
  • 2020 – AGH-UST Rector's Prize for Scientific Achievements in 2019
  • 2019 – AGH-UST Rector's Prize for Scientific Achievements in 2018
  • 2018 – AGH-UST Rector's Prize for Scientific Achievements in 2017
  • 2017 – AGH-UST Rector's Prize for Scientific Achievements in 2016
  • 2016 – AGH-UST Rector's Prize for Scientific Achievements in 2015
  • 2015 – Jagiellonian University Rector's Prize for Organizational Achievements
  • 2015 – AGH-UST Rector's Prize for Scientific Achievements in 2014
  • 2014 – Jagiellonian University Rector's Prize for Organizational Achievements
  • 2014 – AGH-UST Rector's Prize for Scientific Achievements in 2013
  • 2014 – I was awarded a title of ambassador of polish congresses POT Announcement, Announcement, AGH UST
  • 2013 – AGH-UST Rector's Prize for Scientific Achievements in 2012
  • 2013 – AGH-UST Rector's Prize for Didactic Achievements in 2012 for the organization of the Engineering of Intelligent Systems (EIS) program in computer science
  • 2013 – AGH-UST Rector's Prize for Didactic Achievements in 2012 for the book edited by Jan. Werewka on Management of software projects
  • 2012 – Jagiellonian University Rector's Prize for Organizational Achievements
  • 2012 – AGH-UST Rector's Prize for Scientific Achievements in 2011
  • 2011 – AGH-UST Rector's Prize for Scientific Achievements in 2010
  • 2010 – AGH-UST Rector's Prize for Scientific Achievements in 2009
  • 2009 – Best paper award at the ICCCI2009, together with Weronika T. Furmanska, for the paper Proposal of a New Rule-based Inference Scheme for the Semantic Web Applications, published in, New Challenges in Computational Collective Intelligence Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 244, Nguyen, Ngoc Thanh; Katarzyniak, Radoslaw; Janiak, Adam (Eds.), Springer, 2009.
  • 2009 – AGH-UST Rector's Prize for Scientific Achievements in 2008
  • 2008 – AGH-UST Rector's Prize for Scientific Achievements in 2007
  • 2005 – AGH-UST Rector's Prize for Scientific Achievements in 2004
  • 2004 – my Ph.D. dissertation was awarded by the AGH-UST Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science and Electronics
  • 1999 – I was awarded 2nd prize by Polish Information Processing Society in contest for the best M.Sc. Thesis in computer science, for my MSc Thesis entitled ,,Graphical user interface for Kheops rule-based expert system''

Research Projects

During 2018-2023 I have been involved in different roles 6 large R&D project with polish SMEs funded by the polish The National Centre for Research and Development.

Moreover, I have been involved in the following research projects in the universities:

  • 2023→2027 - PEER (hyPEr ExpeRt) EU HORIZON HORIZON-CL4-2022-HUMAN-02 (RIA) (Proposal 101120406) role: PI of the Polish team
  • 2022→2024 - ODR e-Justice EU HORIZON JUST-2021-EJUSTICE Call (101046468) role: Polish co-PI in the area of AI
  • 2021→2024 - eXplainable Predictive Maintenance - CHIST-ERA 2019 XAI: polish team PI/leader and principal investigator (National Science Centre, Poland (2020/02/Y/ST6/00070), under CHIST-ERA IV programme, which has received funding from the EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, under Grant Agreement no 857925.
  • 2019→2021 - Process-aware Analytics Support based on Conceptual Models for Event Logs Call (PACMEL) CHIST-ERA-2017-BDSI: project leader, principal investigator, coordinator of the international consortium (NCN UMO-2018/27/Z/ST6/03392)
  • 2015→2017 - KnowMe (Preludium 7 NCN Grant no. UMO-2014/13/N/ST6/01786) Uncertain and incomplete knowledge modelling for mediation in mobile context-aware systems (KnowMe): scientific supervisor.
  • 2012→2015 - Prosecco (Grant NCBiR 1. Program Badań Stosowanych, no. PBS1/B3/14/2012) Processes Semantics Collaboration for Companies: project leader and consortium coordinator
  • 2012→2014 - SaMURaI (Preludium 2 NCN Grant no. UMO-2011/03/N/ST6/00886) Semantic Method for Unified Rules Interoperability in Knowledge-Based Systems: scientific supervisor.
  • 2012→2014 - HiBuProBuRul (Preludium 2 NCN Grant no. UMO-2011/03/N/ST6/00909) Methodology for designing Hierarchical Business Processes integrated with Business Rules: scientific supervisor.
  • 2011→2012 - Parnas (Grant NCN N516 481240) Methods for inference control and quality management in modularized rule bases: project leader.
  • 2010→2012 - BIMLOQ (Grant MNiSW N516 422338) Business Models Optimization for Quality: project coordination, visual design methods concepts and tools.
  • 2009→2015 - INDECT (FP7-218086, FP7:Collaboration/Security) Intelligent information system supporting observation, searching and detection for security of citizens in urban environment. (See the official information at CORDIS)
    Direct team involvement in WP4, mainly in Task 4.6 Tools to process the information provided by citizens via emergency website, i.e. tools for filtering, validation and classifying textual information
  • 2009→2011 - Rebit (a POIG 1.3.1 project), Business and Technological Rules Management. Team objective: development of a business rules verification module.
  • 2007→2009 - HeKatE (Grant MNiSW N516 024 32/2878) Hybrid Knowledge Engineering: project coordination, XTT2 and ARD+ design methods concepts and tools
  • 2005→2006 - Adder (Grant KBN 4 T11C 035 2) research on formal methods in design of correct real-time and embedded systems, including rule-based systems: rule-based security systems design and analysis methods and tools
  • 2003→2004 - Mirella (Grant KBN 4 T11C 027 24) Meta-Level Approach to Integrated Process of Design and Implementation of Rule-Based Systems: proposal of an integrated process of visual design, formal analysis and implementation of rule-based expert systems, supported by a CASE tool
  • 1999→2001 - Regulus (Grant KBN 8 T11C 019 17) research on formal methods in knowledge engineering and artificial intelligence: analysis of Prolog-based rule-based systems design methods

Software Tools

I have been involved in creation of a number of software tools resulting form research projects. See GEIST page for more updates.

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) Tools

  • InXAI is a Python library for Intelligible XAI that allows to evaluate, compare and analyse different explainable AI algorithms
  • LUX is a Python library for generating uncertain local explanations in a form of human understandable (and executable) rules.
  • KnAC is a Python library for Knowledge Augmented Clustering. It allows for human-in-the-loop conformance checking between domain expert and automatic clustering.
  • CLAMP ia a Python library for Cluster analysis with multidimensional bounding boxes. It allows for in-depth cluster analysis with state-of-the-art XAI algorithms.

Affective Computing tools

  • Several prototypes of affective games for conducting affective research in rich but controllable game-based environment
  • BandReader is a software simplifying physiological data acquisition from wristbands as well as other measurement platforms such as Bitalino

Semantic wikis for collaborative knowledge engineering

  • Loki is a novel semantic wiki platform offering strong reasoning capabilities of Prolog, support for business processes and rules, and support for collaborative knowledge engineering.

Knowledge base editors (stable, supported 2009-2016)

  • HWEd is online web editor for creating XTT2 models, that are run by HeaRTDroid inference engine.
  • HQEd is an advanced visual editor for modularized rule bases developed with the XTT2 knowledge representation for rules. Originally developed within the HeKatE project. Extended during the BIMLOQ to include support for rules integrated with business processes. Enhanced wrt GUI within the Parnas project.
  • VARDA is a tool for fast conceptual prototyping of rule bases ARD+ method
  • HJEd is a visual prototyping of rule bases with the ARD+ method

Reasoning engines (stable, supported 2009-2016)

  • HeaRTDroid is a rule-based inference engine both for Android mobile devices, and desktop solutions supported by visual web editor HWEd. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License
  • HeaRT is a hybrid rule inference engine for modularized rule bases developed with the XTT2 knowledge representation for rules. It also supports practical rule verification. Originally developed within the HeKatE project. Later on extended towards reasoning with business processes as well as in integrated in a semantic wiki.
  • PelletHeart a prototype inference engine linking the HeaRT rule engine with Pellet, the Description Logics reasoner.

Knowledge base translators (supported 2009-2016)

  • HaThoR is rule base translator tool from the XTT2 format to RIF, OWL (partially) and UML

Papers

  • over 200 reviewed scientific papers in artificial intelligence, knowledge and software engineering
  • two monographs
  • one edited volume
  • three special issues of journals
  • professional training materials concerning GNU/Linux administration and security

For the external lists my papers see: for all the papers → AGH UST BPP

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