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Professor Ryszard Kowalczyk

Adjunct Professor

Biography

Ryszard Kowalczyk is Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology. Formerly he was Director of Swinburne Key Lab for Intelligent Software Systems and Head of Distributed AI Systems Research Group, and the former inaugural Wipro Chair of Artificial Intelligence at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. Prior to joining the University, he led AI research at CSIRO and a number of corporate Research & Development centres in Australia and overseas.

Professor Kowalczyk's research interests include artificial intelligence, autonomous software agents and collective intelligence for automated and optimised decision-making, and their applications in digital eco-systems of interacting systems, people and things, i.e. cyber-physical-social eco-systems. It involves automated reasoning, negotiation, learning, adaptation and self-organisation in autonomous multi-agent systems, enabling smart infrastructure, smart cities, smart exchanges and industry 4.0.

Professor Kowalczyk has co-authored 4 patents, published more than 250 scientific articles, and provided expert policy advice to government bodies in Australia and overseas. He has been awarded more than 30 Research & Development projects funded by competitive grants and industry in excess of $25 million, delivering significant research and commercial benefits. His current and past industry collaborators include Wipro, DST Group, Zimbani, CGREI, Suncorp, AARNet, Siemens, Telstra, Vastpark, Canon, IBM, Australian Navy, SAP and DaimlerChrysler.

He received PhD in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) from Silesian University of Technology, Poland and holds a lifetime title of State Professor awarded by the President of Poland.

Research interests

Intelligent systems; Artificial Intelligence; Collective intelligence; Smart infrastructure management

PhD candidate and honours supervision

Higher degrees by research

Accredited to supervise Masters & Doctoral students as Principal Supervisor.

PhD topics and outlines

AI and Intelligent Agents related topics: Please see Professor Kowalczyk's personal webpage: http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/personal/rkowalczyk

Intelligent Systems for Smart Infrastructure related topics: Please see Professor Kowalczyk's personal webpage: http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/personal/rkowalczyk

Honours

Available to supervise honours students.

Fields of Research

  • Intelligent Robotics - 460205
  • Knowledge Representation And Reasoning - 460206
  • Artificial Intelligence Not Elsewhere Classified - 460299

Awards

  • 2018, Other, Wipro Chair in Artificial Intelligence, Wipro Limited
  • 2018, Swinburne, The Vice-Chancellor’s Innovation Award - Team Award Winner: Building the Digital Innovation Precinct through all of University Collaboration, Swinburne University of Technology
  • 2013, Other, Lifetime TItile of State Professor, Republic of Poland
  • 2005, Swinburne, Vice-Chancellor's Research Excellence Award, Swinburne University of Technology

Publications

Also published as: Kowalczyk, Ryszard; Kowalczyk, R.
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Recent research grants awarded

  • 2022: Holobody: Advancing the Future of Mixed Reality Technologies *; ARC Discovery Projects Scheme
  • 2022: Technology and Dementia Care – A Conceptualisation of Digital Twins for Facilitating Better Dementia Prediction, Prevention and Care. *; Barbara Dicker Brain Science grant
  • 2021: Artificial Intelligence as the Most Valuable Player: Enabling cyber-human teams to achieve decision superiority *; Defence Science Technology Group
  • 2021: Autonomic Cyber Resilience and Antifragility *; DATA61
  • 2021: Donald and Tarnagulla Microgrid Feasibility Study- Stakeholder Impact Investigation *; C4NET Fund Scheme
  • 2021: Routing Algorithms for Cloud based Command and Control *; APR Internship Program
  • 2020: Autonomic Factories: AI-based real-time failure prediction and schedule optimization in decentralized self-managing factories *; UA-DAAD (Universities Australia-Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst)
  • 2020: Understanding human and artificial intelligence collaboration on time-critical decision-making *; Next Generation Technologies Fund
  • 2019: Autonomic Computing for Resilient Cyber Operations in Contested Environments *; DATA61
  • 2019: Towards Self-Managing Systems Through Decentralised Constraint Optimisation (Student) *; DATA61
  • 2018: Personalised Pricing Proof of Concept: ‘Just for You’ Targeted Fare Sale Offers *; Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute Intern Program
  • 2018: Wipro Chair in Artificial Intelligence *; Wipro Technologies Australia Pty Ltd
  • 2017: Market-oriented optimisation of smart embedded energy networks *; Centre for GeoExchange and Renewable Energy Infrastructure (CGREI)
  • 2016: AMSI Intern Program - Rapid Ship Design using Computational Algorithms *; Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute Intern Program
  • 2016: Consumer-centric adaptive quality-assured cloud services brokerage *; ARC Linkage Projects Scheme
  • 2015: Melbourne-Sarawak Collaboration Scheme Stream 2 - Prof Ryszard Kowalczyk *; Melbourne-Sarawak Research Collaboration Scheme
  • 2015: Toward custom need data in Smart Exchanges: Smart Cloud Broker Analytics *; Suncorp Insurance Services Pty Ltd - contract
  • 2014: SDA-06 Service Delivery & Aggregation - Smart Cloud Intelligent Agents - SUNCORP project *; Smart Services CRC: Service Delivery Framework
  • 2013: Smart CloudBench Foundry Project *; Smart Services CRC
  • 2012: Service delivery and aggregation *; Smart Services CRC
  • 2012: Smart Cloud Broker Foundry Project *; Smart Services CRC
  • 2012: Student agreement: An open market for trading Cloud Services *; Smart Services CRC
  • 2012: Vacation Scholarship: Multi-cloud Resource Selection & Benchmarking Engine-User Management System *; Smart Services CRC
  • 2010: Services Aggregation (Student Agreement) *; Smart Services CRC: Service Aggregation
  • 2009: Policy based management of agreements in service aggregations *; Smart Services CRC: Service Aggregation

* Chief Investigator