Professional expertise (selected)
Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence.
· Has developed new prediction algorithms for time series and signals. Applications in mining, machine industry, finance. Principal investigator of research projects from NATO, University of California, National Center for Science (NCN) in Poland, Mexico and Brazil. Has authored 5 research books (Springer), 65 publications in international journals, leadership of the international research group (since 2000).
· Has headed the main Polish cybersecurity research institute NASK in Warsaw, Poland. Has headed the Ministry of Digitalization group developing the strategy of AI for Poland. Has headed applications of AI tools into the nationwide public administration platform EZD. Has headed the group building the nationwide OSE telecommunication fiberoptics network (2018-2020).
· Has created the European Digital Innovation Hub in Cracow focused on applications of cybersecurity and AI in energy and transportation sector. Established cooperation networks with similar centers across Central Europe.
Data Science.
· Created and chaired the program in Data Science at Cracow University of Technology. Established strong interactions with IBM and other business units for students and faculty.
· Leadership of the project of creating the National Institute of Data Science sponsored by National Center of Research and Development (NCBR) in Poland.
· Created learning environments for University Data Science programs using R, SPSS, SAS in Poland, US, Mexico, Ukraine and Brazil.
· Consulted financial institutions in predictive modelling using time series.
International Experience.
· Projects (instructions, problem solving, consulting) in risk management, operations
management, financial risk management and cross cultural management.
· Member of the Advisory Council to the US Ambassador in Poland.
· Has worked in the US, Poland, Mexico, Brazil, France, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan.
· Speaks fluently: English, French, Spanish, Russian and Portuguese (Brazil).
Management experience (selected)
· Rector, American University Kyiv.
· Director, NASK Institute for Cybersecurity, Poland.
· Director, Statistical Consulting Lab, University of California, USA.
· Principal investigator, NATO international research grant on
securing the telecommunication signals.
· Deputy Rector for Research, Polish-American Business School,
Nowy Sącz, Poland.
· Principal investigator, Polish Research Agency grant on statistical
signal processing.
· Member of the Małopolska regional committee
on distribution of EU infrastructural funds (MRPO)
Most recent scientific publications:
Duda, J., Leśkow, J., Pawlik, P., & Cioch, W. (2024). CMAFI—Copula-based multifeature autocorrelation fault identification of rolling bearing.
Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing,
211, 111221.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymssp.2024.111221
Morales, F. E. C., Politis, D. N., Leskow, J., & Paez, M. S. (2022). Student’st process with spatial deformation for spatio-temporal data.
Statistical Methods & Applications,
31(5), 1099-1126.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10260-022-00623-8
Series, W. D. T. (2019, July). Subsampling for Heavy Tailed, Nonstationary. In
Cyclostationarity: Theory and Methods–IV: Contributions to the 10th Workshop on Cyclostationary Systems and Their Applications, February 2017, Grodek, Poland (Vol. 16, p. 19). Springer.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22529-2
