Ryszard Tadeusiewicz

Ryszard Tadeusiewicz graduated (with honors) from the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Mining and Metallurgy, Krakow, Poland, in 1971. Additionally, after receiving his degrees in automatic control engineering, he studied at the Faculty of Medicine, Medical Academy in Krakow, as well as studying mathematical and computer methods in economics. Since April 1971, he has made researches in the areas of biocybernetics, automatic control engineering, and computer science. In 1975, he was awarded a Ph.D. degree, and in 1981 a D.S. degree (habilitation). In 1986, he became a Professor, and in 1991, a Full Professor in AGH University of Science and Technology. He obtained 9 Honorary Doctor Awards from Polish and foreign Universities. He wrote and published over 600 scientific papers, which were published in prestigious Polish and foreign scientific journals as well as numerous conference presentations, both national and international. He also wrote over 70 scientific monographs and books, among them are highly popular textbooks (which had many reprints). He was a supervisor of 54 doctoral theses and a reviewer of more than 200 doctoral theses. In 2003, all Polish scientists elected him to be the President of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (Polish Chapter). In 1996, in universal and secret elections, he was elected the Vice Rector for Science of the AGH University of Science and Technology; and in January 1998, he was elected as its Rector. He was re-elected in 1999 for the term 1999—2002 and again in 2002 for the term 2002—2005. In February 1998, he was elected the Corresponding Member of Polish Academy of Sciences and Arts (PAU). Then in February 2000, he became a Foreign Member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, and in May 2002, he was elected as the Grade Corresponding Member of Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN).

Biography Updated on 9 October 2008