Józef Korbicz

Józef Korbicz (born 1951) is a Polish engineer and a full-rank professor at the University of Zielona Góra. Ordinary member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Scientific activity areas

• process diagnostics: fault detection and isolation, analytical methods, intelligent computations, robust observers
• artificial intelligence methods and techniques: artificial neural networks, neuro-fuzzy systems, expert systems, evolutionary computations
• modelling and simulation of processes with spatio-temporal dynamics: measurement sensors placement, Kalman filters, parameter identification
• applications: air protection, power engineering and sugar industry

Employment history

University of Zielona Góra (formerly the Technical University of Zielona Góra/Higher College of Engineering):

• head of the Discipline Council of Information and Communication Technology: since 2019
• director of the Institute of Control and Computation Engineering: since 1992 (founder)
• deputy rector for scientific research and international cooperation: 1999–2008
• dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering: 1996–1999

Degrees and titles

• M.Sc.: 1975, Kiev University of Technology, Ukraine
• Ph.D.: 1980, Kiev University of Technology, Ukraine
• D.Sc.: 1986, Kiev University of Technology, Ukraine
• Professor: 1993, Institute of Systems Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw

Major recent publications

• Kulczycki P., Korbicz J., Kacprzyk J. (Eds.): Automatyka, robotyka i przetwarzanie informacji – Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2020, 768 p. (in Polish)
• Korbicz J., Maniewski R., Patan K., Kowal M. (Eds.): Current Trends in Biomedical Engineering and Bioimages Analysis – Berlin: Springer, 2020, 338 p.
• Korbicz J., Kowal M. (Eds.): Intelligent Systems in Technical and Medical Diagnostics – Berlin: Springer, 2014, 536 p.
• Tadeusiewicz R., Korbicz J., Rutkowski L., Duch W. (Red.): Sieci neuronowe w inżynierii biomedycznej – Inżynieria biomedyczna. Podstawy i zastosowania, tom 9, Warszawa: Akademicka Oficyna Wydawnicza EXIT, 2013, 745 p. (in Polish)
• Korbicz J., Kościelny J.M. (Eds.): Modeling, Diagnostics and Process Control: Implementation in the DiaSter System – Berlin: Springer, 2010, 384 p.
• Korbicz J., Kościelny J.M. (Eds.): Modelowanie, diagnostyka i sterowanie nadrzędne procesami. Implementacja w systemie DiaSter – Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Naukowo-Techniczne, 2009, 446 p. (in Polish)
• Korbicz J., Kościelny J.M., Kowalczuk Z., Cholewa W. (Eds.): Fault Diagnosis: Models, Artificial Intelligence, Applications – Berlin: Springer, 2004, 920 p.
• Korbicz J., Kościelny J.M., Kowalczuk Z., Cholewa W. (Red.): Diagnostyka procesów. Modele, metody sztucznej inteligencji, zastosowania – Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Naukowo-Techniczne, 2004, 828 p. (in Polish)

Research visits abroad

Visiting professor

• Russia: Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivistok, 2015
• France: Nancy University, 2009
• China: University of Hong Kong, 2006
• Australia: Swinburne University, Melbourne, 2006
• USA: University of Alaska, Fairbanks, 2002; University of Colorado, Boulder, 1994 and 1996
• Canada: University of Alberta, Edmonton, 2002; University of Quebec, Hull, 1992

Internships and scholarships

• Germany: University of Duisburg; University of Wuppertal – DAAD scholarship, 1994
• USA: Virginia University, Charlottesville; University of Colorado, Boulder – IREX scholarship, 1991
• Ukraine: Kiev University of Technology; Institute of Cybernetics of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences – postdoctoral internship, 1983–1986

Memberships

International

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE): Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society; Control Systems Society, since 1992; Senior Member since 2002
• International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC): Technical Committee on Detection, Supervision and Safety for Technical Processes, SAFEPROCESS, since 1997

National

• Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN): corresponding member, since 2007; ordinary member, since 2020
• Committee on Automatic Control and Robotics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, since 1993
• Polish Academy of Sciences Team for Cooperation with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria, 2003–2010
• management of the Interuniversity Computerisation Centre, 2008–2012

Posts related to scientific activity

• founder and editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, since 1991
• chairman of the Committee on Automatic Control and Robotics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, since 2015; head of the committee's Section on Intelligent Systems, 1996-2015
• chairman of the Scientific Council of the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences: since 2015
• chairman of the Commission on Engineering Cybernetics of the Poznań Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 2003-2015
• chairman of the Commission on Automatic Control and Computer Science of the Poznań Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2015-2019)
• chairman of the Commission on Computer Science and Automatic Control of the Poznań Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences, since 2020
• president of the Lubuskie Scientific Society, since 1993

Awards and distinctions

• Rzeszów University of Technology Medal of Merit, 2018
• Medal 50 Years of the Faculty of Computer, Electrical and Control Engineering of the University of Zielona Góra, 2017
• Silver medal of 100 Years of Renewal of Traditions of the Warsaw University of Technology (Faculty of Mechatronics), 2016
• Diploma of an Honorary Ambassador of Polish Congresses – Polish Tourism Organisation and Polish Conference and Congress Association, 2016
• Order of Polonia Restituta, 2012
• Medal of the National Education Commission, 2000
• Gold Cross of Merit, 1999
• scientific team award of the Minister of National Education and Sports, 2003
• individual scientific awards of the Minister of National Education and Sports, 1987 and 1989
• individual and team awards of the Rector of the University of Zielona Góra (previously the Technical University of Zielona Góra), annually since 1987
• Prof. Paweł Jan Nowicki Medal, Association of Polish Electrical Engineers, 2013
• Certificate-Diploma of the Polish Neural Networks Society in recognition of outstanding contribution to the development of computational intelligence, 2014

External links

• "Profesor Józef Korbicz". staff.uz.zgora.pl. Retrieved 17 August 2021.