Grzegorz Jacek Nalepa - Curriculum Vitae

Contact

prof. dr hab. inż. Grzegorz J. Nalepa

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

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 previous contact at AGHAGH SKOS system data)

See my detailed scientific profile.

Professional Background

2021 – present – Head of the Department of Games Technology of the Jagiellonian University
2021 – present – Head of the Jagiellonian Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Lab
2021 – present – Head of the Technical Computer Science PhD Program in the Jagiellonian Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences
2020 – present – Jagiellonian University in Krakow: full professor in the Institute of Applied Computer Science in Krakow
2019 – full professor at AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow
2015 – 2018 – AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow: associate, university professor. My area of interest includes artificial intelligence, knowledge engineering, context-aware systems, affective computing, software engineering. I am a lecturer and tutor in the PhD program in Computer Science.
2005 – 2015 – AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow: assistant professor. My area of interest includes Artificial Intelligence, knowledge engineering, including rule-based expert systems, software engineering, data base systems, real–time and embedded systems, ANSI C, Prolog programming, computer security and cryptography, Unix. I teach software engineering and quality management on post-graduate studies.
2011 – 2019 – Jagiellonian University in Krakow: assistant professor in Cognitive Science Laboratory in Institute of Philosophy My area of interest included applications of Artificial Intelligence, knowledge engineering in Cognitive Science.
2005 – 2010 – Kracow University of Technology: lecturer in Institute for Computational Civil Engineering L-5 Teaching expert systems.
2004 – 2010 – Jan Kochanowski University of Humanities and Sciences: assistant professor in Computer Science Laboratory in Institute of Physics Teaching compilers, computer security and programming paradigms.
1999 – 2004 – AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow: teaching/research assistant in Computer Science Laboratory in Institute of Automatics Teaching: AI/Prolog, Unix, programming.
2000 – 2009 – AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow: computer network administrator in Institute of Automatics I designed and implemented an advanced heterogeneous computer network, using advanced filesystem and authentication technologies, based on GNU/Linux, Windows2k, PostgreSQL, Apache.
2000 – 2003 – Cracow University of Technology: heterogeneous computer network administrator, network security expert I maintained a heterogeneous network based on GNU/Linux, Windows NT. I designed an advanced firewall and antivirus system.
2000 – 2003 – ComArch S.A., Krakow teacher and instructor, author of technical training, consultant I wrote a complete GNU/Linux administration and security training set.
1997 – 2000 – ABA, Krakow: teacher and instructor, author of technical training, consultant, system administrator

Education & Degrees

2019 – Full Professorship of the Republic of Poland in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
2012 – Habilitation (DSc) in Computer Science, AGH UST, the hablilitation monograph Semantic Knowledge Engineering. A Rule-Based Approach, AGH, 2011
2012 – Master of Arts (MA) in Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, thesis The Phenomenological background of the semantic externalism: Heidegger and Putnam, UJ, 2012.
2005 – software testing techniques, a training by BBJ Test
2004 – Ph.D. Eng. in Computer Science, AGH UST – My dissertation entitled “Meta-Level Approach to Integrated Process of Design and Implementation of Rule-Based Systems” presents a new approach to rule-based system design, implementation and verification. See: the webpage
2000 – training in database applications design using Oracle Developper
1998-2005 – I studied Philosophy in the Faculty of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow
1999 – M.Sc. in Computer Science – AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow, in 1999, specialization Computer Science in Control and Management
1998-2002 – various trainings of GNU/Linux and SCO Unix administration
1997 – a training on advanced learning techniques in Dynamind school in Cracow
1994/5 – I studied computer science in Nashville State Technical University in Nashville, TN, USA
1994/5 – I studied English in International English Institute in Nashville, TN, USA

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 – AGH-UST Rector's Prize for Scientific Achievements in 2014
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 – 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

I have been involved in the following research projects:

2021→2023 - eXplainable Predictive Maintenance - CHIST-ERA 2019 XAI: polish team leader and principal investigator
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
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.
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 and Solutions

BPwiki and SBVRwiki – work with K. Kutt, K. Kaczor, K. Kluza – are semantic wiki plugins supporting collaborative design of business processes with rules,
Context Simulator and Viewer – work with Szymon Bobek – Context Simulator and Viewer are tools that allows to simulate and visualize context events stored in SQL database in real time. They are designed to work with AWARE framework.
HeaRTDroid – work with Szymon Bobek – HeaRTDroid is a rule-based inference engine for Android mobile devices, that is based on HeaRT inference engine.
PelletHeaRT – a prototype of a hybrid rule reasoner for ontologies (see LNCS/LNAI 6359/2010 Paper: Pellet-HeaRT – Proposal of an Architecture for Ontology Systems with Rules (2010) based on the DAAL concept, see Springer SCI vol. 244/2009 Paper: Proposal of a New Rule-Based Inference Scheme for the Semantic Web Applications (2009) and TCCI II, LNCS/LNAI 6450/2010 Paper: Integration Proposal for Description Logic and Attributive Logic – Towards Semantic Web Rules (2010) together with W. T. Adrian (de domo Furmańska).
Loki (PlWiki) – a semantic wiki using strong logic-based knowledge representation, a prototype Dokuwiki plugin using Prolog → concept, design, implementation, supervision; extended implementation by MSc. student: M. Kotra, revised version by M. Ozgowicz (publicly available prototype soon, early spring 2011), see LNCS/LNAI 5796/2009 Paper: PlWiki – A Generic Semantic Wiki Architecture (2009), JUCS paper: Collective Knowledge Engineering with Semantic Wikis (2010), as well as TCCI III LNCS paper: Loki Semantic Wiki with Logical Knowledge Representation (2011,
HeaRT – custom hybrid rule inference engine → concept, design, implementation, supervision; together with Prof. A. Ligęza; extended implementation by MSc. students: S. Bobek and M. Gawędzki, see LNCS/LNAI 6114/2010 Paper: Architecture of the HeaRT Hybrid Rule Engine (2010)
HJed – visual editor for conceptual rule prototyping → concept, requirements, supervision; design and implementation by MSc. student Sz. Książek, see CEUR WS 511 RuleApps2009 Paper: HeKatE Rule Runtime and Design Framework (2009)
HQed – visual editor for decision rules (XTT-tables/trees) → concept, requirements, extensions, supervision; design and implementation by K. Kaczor, MSc., see CEUR WS 511 RuleApps2009 Paper: HeKatE Rule Runtime and Design Framework (2009)
PlNXT – a Prolog control library for LEGO Mindstorms NXT: → prototype by P. Hołownia, extensions by M. Makowski, aimed at integration with the XTT2 visual rule-based layer, prototype → B. Biesiada, see the LNCS/LNAI 5243/2008 Paper: Prototype Prolog API for Mindstorms NXT (2008) as well as the LEGO Mindstorms lab by GEIST
VARDA – semi-visual tool for conceptual rule prototyping → concept, design, implementation; together with I. Wojnicki, Ph.D., see LNCS/LNAI 5243/2008 Paper: VARDA Rule Design and Visualization Tool-Chain (2008)
Mirella – visual editor for decision rules → concept, design, implementation; part of my Ph. D. Thesis, no longer supported, see Systems Science Journal: A graphical tabular model for rule-based logic programming and verification (2005, vol. 2), Systems Science Journal: A visual edition tool for design and verification of knowledge in rule-based systems (2005, vol. 3), and AGH UST Computer Science journal paper: A New Approach to the Rule-Based Systems Design and Implementation Process (2004)

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

See my papers on other sites:

DBLP, Springer, Google Scholar (Profile), Scopus, Arnetminer, MS AR, PubZone, ScientificCommons, ACM, MetaPress, scHolar, CiteSeer, QuadSearch, Web of Science - Research ID, IEEE, Semantic Scholar.

Languages

English – fluent, 12 years of studies, TOEFL certificate
French – good, 5 years of studies, I passed baccalaureate in French (comparable to SAT in US)
- Spanish – moderate, 5 years of studies
German – basic, 2 years of studies
Russian – average, 8 years of studies in primary and secondary school
Polish – native language

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