Curriculum vitae

Name: Adam Wierzbicki

Education:

1998 – 2003

• PhD studies at the Warsaw University of Technology, department of Electronics and Information Technology, Institute of Telecommunications, under the tutorship of professor Józef Lubacz. I have presented a PhD thesis titled "Content distribution and streaming media communication on the Internet" and have received a PhD degree in June, 2003.

1992 – 1998

• Studies at Warsaw University, department of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, simultaneously majoring in Mathematics and Informatics. In 1997, I have received a Masters degree in Informatics. The Master’s thesis has received a grade of very good. In 1998, I have received a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics.

Selected professional experiences:

• Since September, 2005 I am Vice-Dean of the Department of Informatics at PJIIT, responsible for the management of the didactic process and of scientific research.

• Since 2006, I am a team member of a European 6^th Framework Program project “eGov-Bus”. The project aims to develop a dynamically adaptable information system supporting life events experienced by the citizen or business serviced by European government organizations. In the project, I am developing a distributed, scalable access control mechanism.

• In October, 2005, I have founded a new bachelor’s specialization at PJIIT: Networks of Mobile Devices. The specialization teaches student’s wireless networks (both LAN and cellular) with a practical emphasis on programming of applications for mobile phones, wireless network configuration and security. The specialization cooperates with two companies, Psiloc and Ericsson Poland, in the didactic process. The cooperation has already resulted cooperative grant applications.

• From April, 2003 till September, 2005 I have work part-time for Suntech, a small company that specializes in telecommunications software, as a designer of information systems for telecom operators. Among others, I have worked on the following projects: a network design and inventory system for a large telecom operator, a Web-based customer relationship management system, a billing system for a GSM operator and a groupware system for programmers at Suntech.

• Since October, 2002 I have been employed at the Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology (PJIIT) as assistant professor in the department of Computer Networks. I lecture on basic and advanced computer networks and lead a Master’s seminar.

• Research work (Natlab laboratory, Holland, Philips Research, 01-06.2000) The research has concerned performance and quality of service of streaming media communications (audio and video over RTSP/RTP). I have designed new methods of synchronizing streams, that have used replication of information on proxy-servers in the Internet.

• Research work (Technical University of Eindhoven, Holland, 01-03.1999)
  I have investigated statistical properties of HTTP traffic. I have designed an algorithm for forecasting the popularity of Web objects and a statistical model of requests received by a Web server.

• Research work (Warsaw University, 1998) I have been a co-author of the "Survey of the Polish WWW", the first demographic survey in Poland that has used the Web. The results of that research have been widely quoted in Poland.

• Employment (Iterdisciplinary Modeling Center, Warsaw University (ICM UW), 08.1996-07.1999) I was employed as a LAN administrator (DNS, SMTP, NIS, NFS services), database and Web portal administrator. I have worked on Solaris, Irix (SGI), and Unicos (Cray).

Awards and accomplishments:

• Invitation to the Program Committee of the International IEEE Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P’2005)

• Travel stipend of the Polish Science Foundation

• Awards for best paper on conferences: P2P’2004, PROMS’2000

• Invitation to the Program Chair of the International IEEE Conference on P2P Computing (P2P’2006, P2P’2007)

• Invitation to the Program Committee of the Grid computing, high-performAnce and Distributed Applications conference (GADA’2007) (associated with OTM Federated Conferences)

• Editor of Elsevier Journal on Computer Communications’ special issue on “Foundations of Peer-to-Peer Computing”

• Editor of Springer journal “Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications”

Languages:  Polish: native language. English and German: fluent in speech and writing. Russian, French, Japanese: basic.