Zenon Kulpa: Professional Biography

Education and degrees:

D.Sc., Computer Science, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Warsaw, Poland.
Ph.D., Computer Science, Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science Semester, Banach Center, Warsaw, Poland.
Courses on Applications of Mathematics (Computer Theory, Mathematical Linguistics for Programming Languages, Algorithmic Logic, Methods of Compilation, Numerical Simulation), Institute of Mathematics of Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
M.Sc., Electronics, Electronics Faculty, Warsaw Technical University, Warsaw, Poland.

Membership in Societies, Boards, etc. (current only):

Founding Member, Polish Computer Science Society (PTI)
Member, The Planetary Society
Founding Member, The Mars Society and Mars Society Polska
Member, Executive Editors board of the Machine GRAPHICS & VISION journal
Member, Associate Editors board of the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing

Professional history:

Research institutions, work positions, and fields of work are listed below in anti-chronological order (the most recent first).

Institute of Fundamental Technological Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland:
Adjunct (Associate Professor);
Principal Investigator and Co-principal Investigator.: Diagrammatic knowledge (re)presentation and reasoning; interval analysis and computation; qualitative analysis of mechanical systems.
Computer Science Department, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA:
Senior Research Associate.: Diagrammatic knowledge (re)presentation and graphical user interfaces.
Concurrent Engineering Research Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA:
Research Associate.: Graphical user interfaces with knowledge-based systems for engineering design and engineering data visualization.
College of Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA:
Visiting Research Professor.: Application of knowledge-based systems and graphical user interfaces in engineering design.
Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland:
Adjunct (Assistant Professor);
Senior Research Assistant.
Co-Principal Investigator and Principal Investigator.
Head, Iconics Laboratory;
Head, Picture Recognition and Processing Department.: Computer graphics; spatial interpretation of pictures (impossible figures); computer image processing and recognition.
Institute of Organization and Management of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Higher Education and Technology, Warsaw, Poland:
Senior Research Assistant.
Head, Recognition Methodology Laboratory.: Computer image processing and recognition.
Institute of Applied Cybernetics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland:
Senior Research Assistant.: Computer image processing and recognition.
Institute of Automatic Control of Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland:
Research Assistant.: Computer image processing and recognition, computer-aided synthesis of switching circuits.

It may be interesting to note that the last four institutions listed above were in fact a single institution under changing names and, partially, profiles (with an occassional merge and split along the way)...

Zenon Kulpa: Professional Biography

Education and degrees:

Membership in Societies, Boards, etc. (current only):

Professional history:

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