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The laureates of the Minister of Education and Science awards have been announced. Several AGH UST scientists are among the awardees who received distinction for remarkable achievements in science and implementation, or lifetime academic achievement. The names of the laureates were announced on February 19, 2022 during a ceremonial gala.
Professor Ryszard Tadeusiewicz – he held the position of the Rector of the AGH UST for three terms of office (1998–2005), he is the President of the Krakow Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and has been elected for a number of years to the Central Committee for Degrees and Titles. He is a member of numerous academic assemblies, both Polish and international, including the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, the Academy of Engineering in Poland, and many others. He is a member of international associations: IEEE, SPIE, ACM. He is an honorary member of the Polish Information Processing Society.
Professor Tadeusiewicz studied at the AGH UST Faculty of Electrical Engineering, which he graduated from with honours in 1971. He also studied at the Faculty of Medicine of the Medical College in Krakow, where he later worked as a professor and head of the Institute of Biocybernetics and the Institute of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics. Since 1971, he has been associated with the Department of Automatics at the AGH University (subsequent positions: head of the Independent Biocybernetics Lab (1974–1982), head of the Institute of Biocybernetics (1980–1992), and chair of the department (since 1997)).
He has given lectures at almost all Krakow universities: for 30 years, he has been giving lectures at the AGH UST (where he delivered the inaugural lecture twice), for 25 years, he has been giving lectures and MA seminars at the Cracow University of Economics, where he also gave an inaugural lecture), for more than 10 years, he has been lecturing at the Pedagogical University of Krakow, for 6 years, he worked at the University of Physical Education in Krakow, he taught numerous classes at the Medical College (currently CM JU); he also lectured and supervised MA theses at the Jagiellonian University, for two years lectured at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts (where he gave an inaugural lecture as the first engineer in the Academy’s history), he was also invited as guest lecturer to deliver lectures and seminars at the Cracow University of Technology.
Professor Piotr Faliszewski – between 1999 and 2004, he studied computer science at the Faculty of Computer Science, Electronics, and Telecommunications. Subsequently, between 2004 and 2008, he completed his doctoral degree at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Rochester, USA. In 2006, he obtained the Master of Science degree at the University of Rochester and in 2008 he received his doctoral qualifications based on his dissertation titled Manipulation of Elections: Algorithms and Infeasibility Results.
Since 2009, he has worked at the Institute of Computer Science of the Faculty of Computer Science, Electronics, and Telecommunications, where he held the position of an assistant professor until 2015. In 2013, based on his academic achievement and the monograph titled Narzędzia algorytmiczne dla wyborów, he received postdoctoral qualifications in technical sciences in the discipline of computer science at the Faculty of Computer Science, Electronics, and Telecommunications. Since 2015, he had been an Associate Professor of the AGH UST and in 2021, he became a Full Professor. In the academic year 2015/2016, he was a visiting professor at the Université Paris-Dauphine in France. Moreover, he was a Mercator Fellow (2013–2014) and a visiting professor (2018–2020) at the Technische Universität Berlin (Germany).
He supervised two doctoral students. Since 2017, he has been co-editing the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. In 2018, he received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award presented by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
His research focuses on the following fields: computational social choice, preference aggregation, complexity of elections and algorithms. He is particularly interested in ideas, concepts, and research that span and link all these areas, as well as structural complexity theory. In 2020, he was a laureate of the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant awarded by the European Research Council and is currently working on a computational social choice theory. The project results will find application in multiple areas of life related to the necessity of making choices – starting with those in small local communities, through business, to sports games.
Jacek Dajda, DSc – Assistant Professor at the Institute of Computer Science of the Faculty of Computer Science, Electronics, and Telecommunications. He also works at the AGH UST IT Solutions Centre as the head of Service Design Section. He specialises in the broad software engineering, especially related to data analysis and visualisation, as well as developing models and techniques for effective information integration from heterogeneous data sources. Since 2006, he has also been involved in the implementation of R&D projects related to the development of IT solutions funded primarily by the National Centre for Research and Development as part of a research programme for defence and national security.
Currently, he is the leader of an NCBR project that focuses on information technology tools to support national security services. The aim of the project is to develop an ecosystem of solutions comprised of existing tools supplemented by new modules and functions, as well as completely new specialised solutions designed within the framework of the project. Despite ongoing research work, the commissioner – the General Police Headquarters – already received ready-to-use solutions, and a series of training courses for officers has been organised. Currently, the solutions developed are being implemented in other Polish institutions responsible for national security.
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This year, the Minister of Education and Science has made a decision to present 103 awards in the following categories:
AGH University Bioceramics Team with a gold medal in Geneva 
Pre-election meeting with a candidate for the position of rector 
Agreement on cooperation with OPAL-RT 
Krakow DIANA Accelerator consortium members with an agreement 
Meeting with the Consul General of Germany 
Professor Jerzy Lis re-elected as AGH University Rector 
Launch of AGH University Student Construction Centre