Profile
dr hab. inż. Piotr Gawron
Contact
Personal
Professional
Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences
e-mail: gawron(%)camk%edu%pl
AGH University of Kraków — Center of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence
e-mail: pgawron(%)agh%edu%pl
Research interest
Current
Application of quantum computation and in particular quantum machine learning for efficient and accurate satellite images understanding for wide scale assessment of climate change impact.
- Quantum computation
- Machine learning and automatisation of discoveries in physics
Past
- Quantum games
- Quantum programming languages
- Numerical ranges and shadows
- Tensor networks
Projects
My comic book on quantum information processing (in Polish)
Written together with Katarzyna Kara (illustrations) and Michał Cholewa (scenario)
Quantiki — a portal for quantum information community
Established and maintained jointly with Jarosław Miszczak, and Daniel Burgarth
Webpage on numerical shadows
Done in co-operation with Karol Życzkowski, Zbigniew Puchała, Jarosław Miszczak, Łukasz Pawela, Paulina Lewandowska, Ryszard Kukulski.
Academic achievements
Received professional titles and academic degrees
- Doktor habilitowany of technical sciences (DSc equivalent) in the field of informatics, granted on October 28th 2014, by the Council of Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science, Silesian University of Technology, on the basis of habilitation dissertation “Influence of the environment on quantum information processes”.
- Doktor of technical sciences (PhD equivalent) in the field of informatics, granted on December 23rd 2008, by the Scientific Council of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences, on the basis of a doctoral dissertation “High level programming in quantum computer science”.
- Magister inżynier (MSc equivalent) of informatics, granted on September 24th 2003, on the basis of a master thesis “Symulacja komputerów kwantowych” (eng. “Simulation of quantum computers”), by the Silesian University of Technology, Faculty Of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science, majoring in informatics, speciality: System Software.
Information on employment in research institutions
Current
Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Bartycka 18, 00-716 Warszawa, Poland
from: 01 January 2024 — institute professor (pol. profesor instytutu) (part-time)
01 November 2019 – 31 December 2023 — institute professor (pol. profesor instytutu), Scientific Computing and Information Technology Group Leader @ AstroCeNT—Particle Astrophysics Science and Technology Centre International Research Agenda.
AGH University of Kraków al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland
from: 01 March 2024 — university professor @ Center of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (part-time)
01 January 2024 – 29 February 2024 — research specialist @ Center of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (part-time)
European Space Agency Via Galileo Galilei, 1, 00044 Frascati RM, Italy
Past
Cyfronet—Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet AGH, ul. Nawojki 11., P.O. Box 386, 30-950 Kraków 23, Poland
- 01 June 2022 – 31 October 2023 — main specialist — software developer in Laboratory of Quantum Computing
Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics,
Polish Academy of Sciences
ul. Bałtycka 5, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland- 01 October 2018–31 – October 2019 — institute professor (pol. profesor instytutu)
- from 01 November 2014 — associate professor (pol. profesor nadzwyczajny)
- from 01 January 2009 — adjunct (pol. adiunkt)
- from 01 October 2003 — research assistant (pol. asystent)
- from 15 October 2001 — technician programmer (pol. technik programista)
My profiles on various web-services
PhD theses supervised
- Łukasz Pawela “Open system in quantum informatics” (PhD received in 2017 from Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences)
- Michał Romaszewski “New methods for hyperspectral image classification” (PhD received in 2019 from Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences)
Erdös Number
Trough Man Duen Choi and then Bruce Reznick my Erdös Number is 3.