Maciej Ławryńczuk
Curriculum vitae
Maciej Ławryńczuk was born in Warsaw in 1972. He has been affiliated with the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology, Warsaw University of Technology, since 1992:
- he obtained his M.Sc. degree in 1998,
- he was awarded his Ph.D. degree in the scientific discipline of automation and robotics (with honours) in 2003,
- he received his D.Sc. degree (habilitation) in 2013.
Employed at the Institute of Control and Computation Engineering, Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology, Warsaw University of Technology:
- as a teaching assistant from 2003 to 2004,
- as an assistant professor from 2004 to 2015,
- as an associate professor from 2015 to 2022,
- as a full professor from 2022.
Scientific interests:
- advanced process control algorithms, in particular model predictive control algorithms,
- set-point optimisation algorithms,
- artificial intelligence and soft computing techniques, in particular neural networks,
- modelling and simulation.
He authored or co-authored seven books, including two entries published by the renowned Springer publishing house:
- “Computationally efficient model predictive control algorithms: a neural network approach” (2014),
- “Nonlinear predictive control using Wiener models: computationally efficient approaches for polynomial and neural structures” (2022),
He has supervised over 50 B.Sc. and M.Sc. theses and three Ph.D. theses. He teaches, among others, an original course Process Control, which twice gave him the title The best lecturer awarded by the Student Council at the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology, Warsaw University of Technology (the Golden chalk competition). He has authored the textbook “Process Control”, co-authored the textbooks “Artificial intelligence in automation”, “Fundamentals of control: laboratory exercises” and “Control: laboratory exercises”.
He has been the Deputy Director for Science of the Institute of Control and Computation Engineering since 2016. He has been the head of studies in the field of automation and robotics at the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology since 2011. He is a co-author of the curriculum for B.Sc. and M.Sc. studies in automation and robotics.
He is currently a scientific editor of the journal ISA Transactions (Elsevier), an editorial board member of the International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science (De Gruyter) and an editor of the journals Electronics (MDPI) and Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience (Hindawi).
He has been awarded nine times by the Rector of the Warsaw University of Technology for scientific achievements (in 2004, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2018, 2020 and 2022), three times for teaching achievements (in 2004, 2008 and 2017) and once for organisational achievements (in 2015). He received the Scientific Award from the 4th Faculty (Technical Sciences) of the Polish Academy of Science in 2014.