Jacek Kitowski

Institute of Computer Science
Head of Computer Systems Group
Faculty of Computer Science AGH
Head of PLGrid Program Laboratory, ACC Cyfronet AGH
AGH University of Krakow
(as of January 2026)

Education

M.Sc. (Technical Nuclear Physics) - AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland, 1973
Ph.D. (Computer Science) - AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland, 1978
D.Sc. (habilitation in Computer Science) - AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland, 1992
State Professorship, 2001 (nominated by Polish President)

Professional Career

1974-1980	Assistant Professor, Institute of Nuclear Physics and Techniques, AGH
1976-1977	Institute of Atomic Physics, Bucharest, Romania, Polish Fellowship
1980-1994	Associate Professor, Institute of Computer Science, AGH
1981	Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia, contract
1981-1982	Kernforschungsanlage Juelich (Germany), IAEA Fellowship
1994-2001	Professor, Department of Computer Science, AGH
1994-2000	Visiting Professor, Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, 1 month visits
2001-present	Full Professor, Department of Computer Science AGH
1993-present	Professor, Academic Computer Centre CYFRONET AGH
2000-2014	Professor, School of Banking and Management in Cracow
till present	Multiple short vistis in different European and US scientific centres

Professional Activities

Editor-in-Chief:	Computer Science (Sci. Bull. of AGH) (since 1999) (IF/2024=0,6)
Editorial Board:	Computing and Informatics Journal (since 2004)
Associate Editor:	Computing and Informatics Journal (since 2007) (IF/2024=1,7)
Reviewer:	Computing and Informatics Journal, Computer Assisted Mechanics and Engineering Sciences, Euromicro J.Systems Architecture, Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Future Generation Computer Systems, Archives of Mechanics, Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Concurrency and Computation, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Journal of Cluster Computing, Scientific Programming

Reviewer and evaluator of Polish and international scientific grants
Member of the international conference committees and reviewer
(e.g. HPCN, ICCS, EuroPar, PPAM, ICA3PP, CGW, HP-CAST, HiPer, Phys.Computing, ECUC, EuroPVMMPI, ISPDC, Cyfronet Users' Conference, ServP2P, Int.Symp.Parallel and Distributed Appl.)
Chairman of the Cracow Supercomputing Seminar (organized by Cyfronet AGH, 1992-2010)
Member of the Computational Science Section of the Polish Committee for Scientific Reserach (1996-2000)

Several Ministry and Rector Awards
Reviewer of Ph.D. theses (from Poland, Slovakia, Romania), D.Sc.theses, member of Ph.D. and D.Sc. Committees (at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science and Electronics AGH-UST; Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava; Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technologies, Universitatea Politehnica din Bucuresti, Romania)

Member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science and Electronics AGH (1992-2012)
Member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Computer Science, Electronics and Telecommunication AGH (2012-2019)
Member of the Interfaculty Commission of Technical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (PAU) (2004-2011)
Member of the Computational Science Section of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), Committee o Informatics (2009-2014)
Associated Member of the Computational Methods and Optimization Section of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), Committee on Mechanics (2012-2016)
Expert in EU Program Committee "e-Infrastructures" (EU Unit F3 "Research Infrastructures"), nominated by Ministry of Sceince and High Education (2007-2013)
Member of Ministry Expert Body for Scientific Investments (Zespol Specjalistyczny do spraw inwestycji sluzacych potrzebom badan naukowych lub prac rozwojowych oraz infrastruktury informatycznej nauki, MNiSzW) (2015-2019)
Member of Ministry Advisory Board for Scientific Infrastructure (Zespol Doradczy do spraw infrastruktury badawczej, MNiSzW) (since 2019)
Member of Ministry Advisory Board for Matters related to Participation in a Joint International Program or Undertaking (Zespol Doradczy do spraw zwiazanych z udzialem we wspolnym miedzynarodowym programie lub przedsiewzieciu, MNiSW) (since 2021)
Polish representative to Computing RRB (WLCG) nominated by Minister of Science and Higher Education (2017-2022)
Polish representative to WLCG Collaboration Board (since 2022)
Leader of AGH-ALICE (CERN) collaboration (since 2020)

Holds:
ACM Member since 2016

Main Research Interests

Network, Web and Grid computing, Grid services and Grid storage systems, data replication algorithms
Knowledge/experience engineering, ontology evolution algorithms and environments, semantic description, virtual organizations and their dynamic creation
Large-scale computations, parallel programming and computing, run-time optimization, dynamic load balancing
Computer systems, high availability and storage systems

Selected Projects and Contribution

International Projects

Crossgrid - Development of Grid Environment for Interactive Applications (FP5-IST-32243, 2002-2005); development of Grid data access module
Pellucid - A Platform for Organisationally Mobile Public Employees (FP5-IST-34519, 2002-2005); development of semantic access layer to documents repositories
K-WfGrid - Knowledge-based Workflow System for Grid Applications (FP6- IST-511385, 2004-2007); development of Grid Organizational Memory (a knowledge base) and a set of ontologies for semi-automatically composed workflow-based grid applications
Int.eu.grid - Interactive European Grid (FP6-031857, 2006-2008); development of master-worker paradigm for near real-time LHC applications
Gredia - Grid-enabled Access to Rich Media Content (FP6-IST-034363, 2006-2009); development of contract model and implementation for semi-automatic creation of virtual organizations
gSLM - Service Delivery and Service Level Management in Grid Infrastructures, INFRA-2010-3.3 261547 CSA-SA; ontological description of SLA
EDA EU SAS Project: European Urban Simulation for Asymmetric Scenarios, (A-0676-RT-GC JIP-FP, 2010-2013); semiautomatic configuration of resources
VirtROLL - Virtual Rolling Mill (EU RFCS-CT-2013-00007, 2013-2016); development of data farming paradigm for simulation
PaaSage - Model-Based Cloud Platform Upperware (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2012-2016); adoption of data farming system to cloud environment
Indigo-DataCloud - Developing a data and computing platform targeting scientific communities, deployable on multiple hardware and provisioned over hybrid (private or public) e-infrastructures (H2020, 2015-2017); participation in development of Onedata system
EGI-Engage - Accelerating the implementation of Open Science Commons (H2020, 2015-2017); participation in development of Onedata system

Large-Scale Parallel Molecular Simulations of Microhydrodynamic Phenomena by Metacomputing Approach, US-Poland Maria Curie-Sklodowska Fund II (MEN/NSF-94-193, 1996-2001).
Contribution: development of mesoscale and crosscale simulation parallel algorithms based on particle methods for thermal instabilities and blood flow (team member)
Collaborating Partners: University of Minnesota, USA; Supercomputing Institute, Minnesota, USA (Prof. David Yuen)
Scientific and Technological Cooperation Joint Project between Poland and Austria in the field of telemedicine (KBN-OEADD grant No.A:8N/1999-2000 and 2001-2002).
Contribution: Development of XML-based environment for multimedia presentation
Collaborating Partners: University of Klagenfurt, Austria (Prof. Laszlo Boszormeneyi, Prof. Harald Kosch)

Polish Projects

Progress - Access environment to computing resources and services performed by a cluster of Sun computers (2001-2003).
Collaborating Partners: PCSS Poznan, ACK Cyfronet AGH, SUN Microsystems, Technical University of Lodz, WCSS Wroclaw, EU GridLab Project, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences
SGIGrid - High Performance Computing and Visualization with the SGI Grid for Virtual Laboratory Applications (2002-2005).
Collaborating Partners: SGI Inc,. ATM SA., PCSS Poznan, ACK Cyfronet AGH, Technical University of Lodz, WCSS Wroclaw, TASK Gdansk, Institute of Meteorology and Water Management, Warsaw
KMD - National Data Store (2007-2009).
Collaborating Partners: PCSS Poznan, ACK Cyfronet AGH, LODMAN Technical University of Lodz, WCSS Wroclaw, BIAMAN Bialystok Technical University, TASK Gdansk, LUBMAN Lublin University, Czêochowa Technical University
REHAB - Development of computer methods for rehabilitation of patients after stroke (Ministry of Science and High Education, Contract Nr. 3154/B/T02/2008/35, 2008-2010), project coordinator
Collaborating Partners: Collegium Medicum Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland (Prof. Janusz Otfinowski)
OntoStor - Development of knowledge supported methodology for grid data access (Ministry of Science and High Education, Contract Nr 4055/B/T02/2008/35, 2008-2010), main contractor
System for interactive simulation of selected biological processes using GPGPU computer architectures and high performance visualization (Ministry of Science and High Education, Contract Nr. 4430/B/T02/2010/39, 2010-2012), contractor
PL-Grid - Polish Infrastructure for Information Science Support in the European Research Space PL-Grid (Project Director) collaboration with ACC Cyfronet AGH (Ministry of Science and High Education, Contract Nr. POIG.02.03.00-00-007/08-00, 2009-2011)
Collaborating Partners: PCSS Poznan, ACK Cyfronet AGH, WCSS Wroclaw, ICM Warsaw, TASK Gdansk
PLGrid PLUS - Polish Roadmap toward Domain-Specific Infrastructure for Supporting Computational Science in European Research Area (Project Director), collaboration with ACC Cyfronet AGH (Ministry of Science and High Education, Contract Nr. POIG.02.03.00-00-096/10, 2012-2014)
Collaborating Partners: PCSS Poznan, ACK Cyfronet AGH, WCSS Wroclaw, ICM Warsaw, TASK Gdansk
PLGrid CORE - Competence Centre of Grid and Cloud Infrastructures (Project Director), collaboration with ACK Cyfronet AGH (POIG.02.03.00-12-137/13, 2014-2015)
PLGrid NG - New Generation domain-oriented services of Polish Infrastructure for e-Science (Project Director), collaboration with ACK Cyfronet AGH (POIG.02.03.00-12-138/13, 2014-2015)
Collaborating Partners: PCSS Poznan, ACK Cyfronet AGH, WCSS Wroclaw, ICM Warsaw, TASK Gdansk
PANDA 2 - Support and Maintenance for New Generation domain-oriented services of Polish Infrastructure for e-Science (Project Director), collaboration with ACK Cyfronet AGH, 2016-2020)
Collaborating Partners: PCSS Poznan, ACK Cyfronet AGH, WCSS Wroclaw, ICM Warsaw, TASK Gdansk

Administrative Experience

Member of the Management Board of the Institute of Nuclear Physics and Techniques AGH (1976-1980)
Deputy Director of the Institute of Computer Science AGH (1985-1988)
Head of the Computer Systems Group AGH-UST (since 2002)
Director of PL-Grid Consortium (National Grid Initiative in Poland) (2007-2020)
Head of International Affairs at ACK Cyfronet AGH (since 2016)

Ph.D. Graduates and M.Sc. Graduates

Krzysztof Boryczko - Selected problems of distributed computing using heterogeneous network of computers (1995), current position: Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science, Electronics and Telecommunication, AGH (2016-2020), professor at AGH-UST, Department of Computer Science
Renata Chrobak - Application of the heterogeneous network of computers for upsetting modelling using FEM (1997), current position: associate professor, Rzeszow University, Faculty of Mathematics and Nature
Witold Alda - Computer experiments on modelling AgJ and Ar properties using molecular dynamics (1997), current position: assistant professor, AGH-UST, Department of Computer Science
Joanna Plazek - Development of parallel algorithms for adaptive FEM for parallel computer and network of computers (2000), current position: Deputy Director of the Institute of Teleinformatics, Cracow University of Technology
Stanislaw Polak - Implementation of message passing paradigm for synchronizing multimedia data using XML (2003), current position: assistant professor, AGH-UST, Department of Computer Science
Darin Nikolow - Efficient access to video sequences residing on tertiary storage (2003), current position: researcher at ACK Cyfronet AGH
Lukasz Dutka - Component-expert architecture for large scale systems (2005), current position: senior researcher at ACK Cyfronet AGH
Piotr Poznanski - Framework for managing Grid-enabled large scale computing fabrics (2005), current position: assistant professor, Cracow University of Technology, Institute of Teleinformatics
Maciej Malawski - Component-based Methodology for Programming and Running Scientific Applications on the Grid (2009), current position: professor, AGH-UST, Department of Computer Science
Bartosz Balis - Monitoring of Grid Scientific Workflows (2009), current position: professor AGH-UST, Department of Computer Science
Marcin Kuta - Tagging and Corpus based Mathods for improving Natural Language Processing of Polish (2011), current position: assistant professor, AGH-UST, Department of Computer Science
Dariusz Krol - Massively Self-Scalable Platform for Data Farming (2014), current position: IT architect, Bank BGZ BNP Paribas S.A., Relyon IT Services, Sp. z o.o.
Piotr Pegiel - Self-healing, Highly Available Monitoring System for Distributed Environment (2014), current position: principal architect, SABRE
Bartosz Kryza - Unified Metadata Management in Large Distributed Computing Infrastructures (2014), current position: senior researcher at ACK Cyfronet AGH
Michal Wrzeszcz - Transparent Data Access in Federated Computational Infrastructures (2019), current position: senior researcher at ACK Cyfronet AGH
Two more Ph.D. dissertations advanced

30+ M.Sc. Theses supervised

Teaching Experience

Programming languages, modern computer architectures, parallel programming models and environments, high availability systems.

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