CV - dr hab. inż. Piotr Gawron

Personal Information

• Name: dr hab. inż. Piotr Gawron
• Email: piotr[at]piotrgawron.eu
• Website: www.piotrgawron.eu
• ORCID: 0000-0001-7476-9160
• Gender: Male
• Nationality: Polish
• Updated: 10 March 2026
• Desired employment: Quantum computation research group leader
• Research interest: 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

Work Experience

ESA project lead (contract)

• Dates: 03 March 2025 – 31 December 2026
• Employer: KP LABS sp. z o.o., ul. Bojkowska 37J, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland
• Sector: Space exploration sector — private company
• Activities: Leading research project

Associated professor @ Center of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (part-time)

• Dates: from March 2024
• Employer: AGH University of Kraków, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland
• Sector: State owned university
• Activities: Research in the field of quantum machine learning, leading research team, PhD supervision

Research specialist @ Center of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (part-time)

• Dates: January 2024 – February 2024
• Employer: AGH University of Kraków, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland
• Sector: State owned university
• Activities: Research in the field of quantum machine learning, leading research team

Associated Professor (part-time)

• Dates: from January 2024
• Employer: Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Bartycka 18, 00-716 Warszawa, Poland
• Sector: State owned research institute
• Activities: Research in the field of quantum information, writing research proposals, managing research projects

Visiting professor

• Dates: from March 2022
• Employer: European Space Agency Φ-lab, ESRIN, Via Galileo Galilei, 1, 00044 Frascati RM, Italy
• Sector: International organization
• Activities: Providing expertise in quantum computing and quantum machine learning in applications for Earth observations

Main specialist—software developer in Laboratory of Quantum Computing (part-time)

• Dates: June 2022 – October 2023
• Activities: Providing expertise in quantum computing and quantum machine learning (Employer not specified; likely AGH University or related institution)

Education

Doctorate (Ph.D. equivalent) in Technical Sciences (Informatics)

• Thesis title: “High-level programming in quantum computer science”
• Institution: Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Level: ISCED 6
• Additional: Ph.D. obtained cum laude (2008)

Magister inżynier (M.Sc. equivalent) in Informatics

• Dates: September 1998 – June 2003
• Thesis title: “Simulation of quantum computers” (in Polish)
• Institution: Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland
• Level: ISCED 5A

Socrates Scholarship

• Dates: September 1999 – June 2000
• Field: Computer Science
• Institution: Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis, Valenciennes, France
• Level: ISCED 5A

Matura (High School Diploma)

• Dates: September 1994 – June 1998
• Principal subjects: Mathematics and physics
• Institution: I Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. E. Dembowskiego w Gliwicach
• Level: ISCED 3A

Personal Skills and Competences

Languages

Levels: A1/A2: Basic user – B1/B2: Independent user – C1/C2: Proficient user (Common European Framework of Reference)

Social and organisational skills

• Team work: Experience in various types of teams, from research to LARPing groups; comfortable as leader or team member.
• Mediating skills: LARP games have honed conflict resolution and large-group organisation abilities.
• Inter-cultural skills: Lived in Algeria and France; participated in many international meetings; adept at communicating across cultures.
• Organisational skills: Experience organising and coordinating events with up to 300 participants (conventions, LARPs). Co-organised the QIPLSIGML “Machine Learning meets Quantum Computation” conference in Kraków, April 26–28, 2018.

Computer skills and competences

• Broad information processing skills: scientific computing, signal/image processing, quantum computation, machine learning, Linux administration.
• Proficient in implementing complex algorithms in multiple programming languages; extensive knowledge of numerical computation; experience designing efficient numerical libraries; good software engineering practices.
• Programming languages: Julia, Python, C++, C, Pascal, VHDL, GNU R, GNU Maxima, GNU Octave, QCL, Mathematica.
• Tools: GNU/Linux, git, LaTeX, Statistica, parsers, FPGAs, Xilinx development tools, OpenCV, PyTorch.

Additional Information (Prizes, awards, achievements)

• eNgage III/2014 Foundation of Polish Science competition laureate – project: “Development, publication, and promotion of graphical novel combined with a handbook of quantum information (QI-COMIX)” (2014).
• START Program stipend for young researchers from Foundation of Polish Science (2010).
• Ph.D. obtained cum laude (2008).
• Ph.D. Grant from Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (No N N519 2973 33) (2007).
• Test for English in Communication (TOEIC) – 860/990 points (2000).
• Socrates stipend from Silesian University of Technology (1999).

Reviewer Activities

• Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (from 2022)
• Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (from 2022)
• Open System and Information Dynamics (from 2019)
• Entropy (from 2018)
• Enterprise Information Systems (from 2017)
• Mathematics (MDPI, from 2017)
• Entropy (MDPI, from 2017)
• Royal Society Open Science (from 2017)
• Future Generation Computer Systems (from 2017)
• International Journal of Quantum Information (from 2015)
• Computing and Informatics (from 2015)
• Quantum Information Processing (from 2014)
• Acta Physica Polonica B (from 2012)
• Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (from 2011)
• Fluctuation and Noise Letters (from 2010)
• International Journal of Theoretical Physics (from 2010)
• Theoretical and Applied Informatics (from 2010)
• Packt Publishing (from 2010)

Other Professional Activities

• Co-creator and co-manager of www.quantiki.org and www.numericalshadow.org
• Scientific council member of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Erdős Number: 3 (Man Duen Choi → Bruce Reznick → Paul Erdős)
• H-index: 12

Research Interests

Quantum computer science, quantum information processing, scientific computing, machine learning, signal and image processing

Personal Interests

Mathematics, physics, computer science, science-fiction literature, political economy, science outreach

Projects

LUMI-Q

• Dates: January 2024 –
• Description: Building a European-wide quantum computing environment integrated with the EuroHPC infrastructure (Call ref: EUROHPC-2022-CEI-QC-01)
• Role: Consortium member; providing Level 3 support for end-users of the LUMI-Q quantum computer

ArtiQ – Center of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence

• Dates: November 2023 –
• Description: Establishing a new Center of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence
• Role: Leader of the task “Quantum interpretation of data from optical and radar sensors – the new approach to unsupervised learning”

EuroHPCPL – National Supercomputing Infrastructure for EuroHPC

• Dates: June 2022 – October 2023
• Description: Building Polish supercomputing infrastructure for EuroHPC
• Role: Quantum computation specialist

AstroCeNT – Particle Astrophysics Science and Technology Centre International Research Agenda

• Dates: November 2019 – December 2023
• Description: Foundation of Polish Science project funded within the International Research Agendas programme (Smart Growth Operational Programme, Priority Axis 4, Measure 4.3), co-financed from the European Regional Development Fund
• Role: Leader of the Scientific Computing & Information Technology Group

Spectral information processing with quantum neural networks

• Dates: January 2022 – December 2024
• Description: Research project co-funded by the European Space Agency under Contract No. 4000137375/22/NL/GL/Cmy and Polish Ministry of Education and Science
• Role: Principal investigator

Semantic tensor networks for large data sets analysis

• Dates: October 2015 – March 2019
• Description: National Science Centre research grant No. 2014/15/B/ST6/05204
• Role: Principal investigator

Development, publication, and promotion of graphical novel combined with a handbook of quantum information (QI-COMIX)

• Dates: April 2015 – June 2016
• Description: Foundation for Polish Science, eNgage program, contract No. 98/UD/SKILLS/2015
• Role: Project leader

Modelling methods of information systems using quantum queue theory

• Dates: April 2011 – July 2014
• Description: National Science Centre research grant No. 4818/B/T02/2011/40
• Role: Principal investigator

Entanglement effects in quantum games

• Dates: March 2012 – September 2013
• Description: Ministry of Science and Higher Education Iuventus Plus research grant No. IP2011 014071
• Role: Principal investigator

Quantum games in open systems

• Dates: May 2011 – May 2012
• Description: Ministry of Science and Higher Education Iuventus Plus research grant No. IP2010 009770
• Role: Principal investigator

Distributed numerical analysis environment for the quantum information theory

• Dates: August 2010 – August 2013
• Description: Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education research grant No. N N519 442339
• Role: Researcher, developer

Implementation of a demonstrator of tracking, stabilisation, and panorama building for an airplane vision channel

• Dates: July 2010 – September 2010
• Description: Project solicited by Flytronic sp. z o.o.
• Role: Researcher, developer

Environment for programming, simulation and analysis of quantum algorithms

• Dates: October 2006 – September 2009
• Description: Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education research grant No. N519 012 31/1957
• Role: Researcher, developer

Quantum computer programming language based on density matrices

• Dates: October 2007 – October 2008
• Description: Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education research grant No. N519 012 31/1957
• Role: Ph.D. candidate

JPEG2000 compression algorithm implementation in VHDL

• Dates: May 2005 – May 2007
• Description: Highly optimized embedded implementation of JPEG2000 algorithm
• Role: Developer, tester

www.quantiki.org

• Dates: May 2005 onwards
• Description: Wiki-based online collaboration environment for quantum information community
• Role: Designer, developer, administrator

“Paradigms Languages and Algorithmic coNcepts for Quantum computing” (PLANQC)

• Dates: 2005
• Description: Proposal for STREP FP6 EU Program
• Role: Participant

quantum-octave

• Dates: 2003
• Description: Quantum computation simulation library for GNU Octave environment
• Role: Developer

Teaching Experience

University Courses

Silesian University of Technology

• As lecturer: modern programming languages
• As teaching assistant: introduction to computer programming, computer programming, software engineering, algorithms analysis and translators

PhD Supervision

• Łukasz Pawela – “Open system in quantum informatics” (received doktor degree from Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences, April 2017)
• Michał Romaszewski – “New methods for hyperspectral image classification” (received doktor degree from Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences, April 2019)

Participation in Scientific and Professional Meetings

• FOSDEM'19 Quantum Computing (02–03.02.2019, Brussels, Belgium) – Talk: “Julia programming language for quantum software development”
• Quantum Machine Learning Workshop at 24th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (20.08.2018, London, UK) – Talk: “Hyperspectral image segmentation using adiabatic quantum computation”
• Conference on Quantum Machine Learning Plus (17–21.09.2018, Innsbruck, Austria) – Poster: “Hyperspectral image segmentation using adiabatic quantum computation”
• 2nd Quantum UnConference (8–11.04.2018, Barcelona, Spain) – Talk: “Learning CPTP Maps” (with Oskari Kerppo, Yin Mo, Ramon Muñoz-Tapia, Boris Sokolov, Peter Wittek)
• 15th Central European Quantum Information Processing Workshop (13–16.06.2018, Smolenice, Slovakia) – Poster: “Hyperspectral image segmentation using adiabatic quantum computation”
• 13th Central European Quantum Information Processing Workshop (16–19.06.2016, Valtice, Czech Republic) – Poster: “Tensor networks of the cumulant tensors”
• KCIK Symposium (18–19.05.2012, Sopot, Poland)
• The sixth Conference on the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (24–26.05.2011, Madrid, Spain) – Poster: “Towards quantum queueing theory”
• V4 Summer School In Quantum Information (21–27.09.2009, Budmerice, Slovakia)
• 423. Wilhelm und Else Heraeus-Seminar, “New Frontiers in Quantum Information Science” (03–06.11.2008, Bad Honnef, Germany) – Poster: “Noisy Quantum Monty Hall Game”
• 5th Central European Quantum Information Processing Workshop (5–8.06.2008, Telč, Czech Republic) – Poster: “Noise Effects in Quantum Magic Squares Game”
• Institute of Advanced Studies, “Quantum Statistical Physics and Quantum Information Theory” (21–25.04.2008, Cergy, France)
• QIPC 2007 International Conference on Quantum Information Processing and Communication (15–19.10.2007, Barcelona, Spain)
• International school of complexity, Noise Information & Complexity @ Quantum Scale (04–10.09.2007, Erice, Italy) – Poster: “Noise Effects in Quantum Magic Squares Game”
• International Summer School on Quantum Information (29.08.2005 – 30.09.2005, Dresden, Germany) – Poster and talk: “Quantum Implementation of a Parrondo Paradox”
• NATO Advanced Study Institute “Quantum Computation and Quantum Information” (2–13.05.2005, Chania, Greece) – Poster: “Quantum Implementation of a Parrondo Paradox”
• Jesień Linuksowa (Linux Autumn) (8–10.10.2004, Ustroń, Poland) – Talk: “Usage of free software in science” (in Polish)
• Workshop Quantum Coding (07–09.09.2004, Greifswald, Germany) – Talk: “Simulation of quantum computers: state of the art and perspectives”
• XI Conference on Computer Networks (23–25.06.2004, Zakopane, Poland)
• Conference: Informatics Research and Applications (IBIZA) (26–28.02.2004, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland) – Talk: “Didactic tools for teaching quantum computation”
• X Conference on Computer Networks (10–13.06.2003, Szczyrk, Poland)
• XXVI International School of Theoretical Physics, Quantum Composite Systems (03–07.09.2002, Ustroń, Poland)
• IX Conference on Computer Networks (11–14.06.2002, Zakopane, Poland)

Foreign Visits

• University of Durham, Durham Quantum Light and Matter research section of Department of Physics (18–23.03.2019, Durham, UK) – Presenting a talk
• NUI Galway, Ireland, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Applied Mathematics (15–29.05.2017, Galway, Ireland) – Presenting a talk for a Mathematics, Statistics and Applied Mathematics Seminar
• NUI Galway, Ireland, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Applied Mathematics (29–30.04.2015, Galway, Ireland) – Presenting a talk
• Masaryk University (17–21.11.2008, Brno, Czech Republic) – Talk: “Noise in some quantum games”
• National University of Singapore (10–29.09.2007, Singapore) – Development of Quantiki project
• University of Cambridge (29.05–04.06.2006, Cambridge, UK) – Development of Quantiki project
• University of Cambridge (06–13.06.2005, Cambridge, UK) – Development of Quantiki project

Invited Talks and Seminars

• “Hyperspectral image segmentation using adiabatic quantum computation” – University of Durham, Durham Quantum Light and Matter research section (20.03.2019)
• “Quantum hidden Markov models based on transition operation matrices” – School of Mathematics, Statistics and Applied Mathematics, NUI Galway (18.05.2018)
• Keynote lecture: “Quantum computing in the cloud” – Konferencja Użytkowników Komputerów Dużej Mocy (KU KDM'17), Zakopane (09.03.2017)
• Keynote lecture: “Tensor Networks – a Language for Classical and Quantum Informatics” – Cracow Grid Workshop, Kraków (28.10.2015)
• “Generalized open quantum walks on Apollonian networks” – Mathematics, Statistics and Applied Mathematics Seminar, NUI Galway (29.04.2015)
• “Tensor decompositions in classical and quantum informatics” – Chaos and quantum information seminar, Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Kraków (07.10.2013)
• “On quantum informatics” – Session of Gliwice Section of Polish Mathematical Society, Institute of Mathematics, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice (06.10.2009)
• “Local numerical range and its applications for quantum information” – Chaos and quantum information seminar, Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Kraków (06.04.2009)
• “Noise in some quantum games” – Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno (16.11.2008)

Conference Committees

• The 11th Doctoral Workshop on Mathematical and Engineering Methods in Computer Science (MEMICS 2016) – Telč, Czech Republic, October 21–23, 2016 – Member of programme committee

Thesis Advisory

• Thesis consultant: “Programowanie komputerów kwantowych” (Quantum computer programming), Master Thesis, Piotr Wycisk, Advisor: Ryszard Winiarczyk, Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science, 2006
• Thesis consultant: “Biblioteka do symulacji obliczeń kwantowych” (Library for simulation of quantum computation), Master Thesis, Tomasz Drosik, Advisor: Ryszard Winiarczyk, Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science, 2010

Selected Recent Most Important Papers Published

1. Michal Romaszewski, Manish K. Gupta, and Piotr Gawron. “Potential of quantum machine learning for processing multispectral earth observation data”. en. In: Bulletin Of The Polish Academy Of Sciences- Technical Sciences 73.5 (2025), E154279.
2. Tomasz Rybotycki and Piotr Gawron. “Aqmlator – an auto quantum machine learning e-platform”. en. In: Computer Science 26. SISI (2025), pp. 29–43.
3. Bartlomiej Gardas, Przemyslaw Glomb, Przemyslaw Sadowski, Zbigniew Puchala, Konrad Jalowiecki, Łukasz Pawela, Orphee Faucoz, Pierre-Marie Brunet, Piotr Gawron, Matthijs Van Waveren, et al. “Hyper-Spectral Image Classification Using Adiabatic Quantum Computation”. In: IGARSS 2023 – 2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. IEEE, 2023, pp. 620–623.
4. Matthijs van Waveren, Mickael Savinaud, Guillaume Pasero, Veronique Defonte, Pierre-Marie Brunet, Orphee Faucoz, Piotr Gawron, Bartlomiej Gardas, Zbigniew Puchala, and Łukasz Pawela. “Comparison of Quantum Neural Network Algorithms For Earth Observation Data Classification”. In: IGARSS 2023 – 2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. IEEE, 2023, pp. 780–783.
5. Manish K Gupta, Martin Beseda, and Piotr Gawron. “How Quantum Computing-Friendly Multispectral Data can Be?” In: IGARSS 2022 – 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. IEEE, 2022, pp. 4153–4156.
6. Gabriele Cavallaro, Dora B Heras, Zebin Wu, Manil Maskey, Sebastian Lopez, Piotr Gawron, Mihai Coca, and Mihai Datcu. “High-Performance and Disruptive Computing in Remote Sensing: HDCRS – A New Working Group of the GRSS Earth Science Informatics Technical Committee”. In: IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine (2022).
7. Piotr Gawron and Stanislaw Lewinski. “Multi-Spectral Image Classification with Quantum Neural Network”. In: IGARSS 2020 – 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. IEEE, 2020, pp. 3513–3516.
8. Konrad Jalowiecki, Andrzej Więckowski, Piotr Gawron, and Bartlomiej Gardas. “Parallel in time dynamics with quantum annealers”. In: Scientific Reports 10.1 (2020), pp. 1–7.
9. Krzysztof Domino, Piotr Gawron, and Łukasz Pawela. “Efficient Computation of Higher-Order Cumulant Tensors”. In: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing 40.3 (2018), A1590–A1610.
10. Piotr Gawron, Dariusz Kurzyk, and Łukasz Pawela. “QuantumInformation.jl – Julia package for numerical computation in quantum information theory”. In: PloS one 13.12 (2018), e0209358.