Institute of Control and Computation Engineering Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology Warsaw University of Technology Nowowiejska 15/19 Str., 00-665 Warsaw, POLAND Contact: US office: +1 (574) 631 7072 email: aczajka at nd.edu

Positions

Research Assistant Professor (since Jan. 2018)
Visiting Assistant Professor (2016 -- 2017)
Visiting Associate Professor (2014)
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Notre Dame, IN, USA
(more information here)

Assistant Professor (since 2002)
Biometrics Laboratory
Research and Academic Computer Network (NASK)
Warsaw, Poland

Assistant Professor (2003 -- 2017)
Biometrics and Machine Learning Group
Institute of Control and Computation Engineering
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

Current scientific involvement (selected):

IJCB 2017 (Publicity Chair, PC Member), BIOSIG 2017 (PC member), MFSEC 2017 (PC member), ISBA 2017 (PC member), BIOSIGNALS 2017 (PC member), IEEE Access (Associate Editor), IET Biometrics (Associate Editor), LivDet-Iris 2017 (Co-organizer)

Teaching:

Biometrics (in English): Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2014
Biometrics (in Polish): Fall 2006 --> Fall 2015
Computer Vision (in English): Fall 2017, Spring 2016
Introduction to Neural Networks (in English): Fall 2016

Short CV:

Received his M.Sc. in Computer Control Systems in 2000 and Ph.D. in Biometrics in 2005 from Warsaw University of Technology (both with the highest honours). Since 2003 he is with Warsaw University of Technology, and since 2002 with Research and Academic Computer Network (NASK). Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the University of Notre Dame, IN, USA (fall 2014 and since spring 2016). Chair of the Biometrics and Machine Learning Laboratory at the Institute of Control and Computation Engineering. Head of the Postgraduate Studies on Security and Biometrics (2011-). V-ce Chair of the NASK Biometrics Laboratory (2006-) and a member of the NASK Research Council (2006-2015). Member (2009-) and Chair (2014-) of the Technical Committee on Biometrics of Polish Normalization Committee (PKN). Member of the PKN Technical Committee No. 182 on Information Security in IT Systems (2007-). Expert of the ISO/IEC SC37 and CEN TC224 WG18 on Biometrics. Member of the Main Council of the Research Institutes (2015-). Associate Member (2002-2005), Member (2006-2011) and Senior Member (2012-) of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.). Active Member of the EAB (European Association for Biometrics, 2012-).

More on my LinkedIn profile.

Papers

All my papers (with PDFs for recent items) are listed in the general publication page:
zbum.ia.pw.edu.pl/EN/node/22.

Research interest:

My scientific interests are centered around biometrics and security for almost 20 years. My work includes designing and development of novel human recognition methods, in particular based on physical characteristics (iris, finger and hand) and presentation attack detection techniques for those biometric modes. I am researching various aspects of stationarity of biometric recognition, including biometric templates aging, post-mortem recognition and immunity of biometric techniques to health conditions. I often design and develop new prototype biometric sensors and software, especially required to conduct non-standard research on iris recognition. In my work I use various computer vision and machine learning approaches, including - where appropriate - deep learning solutions.

Quotes:

''It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.''
Harry S. Truman

"Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."
Leonardo da Vinci

Private:

Glider pilot. Yacht skipper. Time permitting: pastel painting, playing classical guitar, photography.