Professor Ryszard Tadeusiewicz (b. 1947)

Rector for the 1998–2005 term of office
Biocybernetics and biomedical engineering, automatics and robotics, computer science

 

He was born on May 5, 1947, in Środa Śląska. He is an automatics engineer and a full professor. He was elected rector of the University of Mining and Metallurgy for three consecutive terms.  He was also President of the Krakow Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences; he has been elected for numerous terms of office to the Central Committee for Degrees; in the past, he was a member of the State Committee for Scientific Research (KBN). A member of several national and foreign academies, such as the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (founder and chairperson of the Committee on Technical Sciences), the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, the Academy of Engineering in Poland, and many others. A member of IEEE, SPIE, and ACM, and an honorary member of the Polish Information Processing Society.


Professor Tadeusiewicz studied at the Faculty of Power of the University of Mining and Metallurgy, which he graduated from in 1971.  He also studied at the Faculty of Medicine of the Medical College in Krakow, where he later worked as a professor and head of the Institute of Biocybernetics and the Institute of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics. Since 1971, he has been associated with the Department of Automatics at the AGH University (subsequent positions: head of the Independent Biocybernetics Lab (1974–1982), head of the Institute of Biocybernetics (1980–1992), and chair of the department (since 1997).


He has given lectures at almost all Krakow universities: for 30 years, he has been giving lectures at the AGH (where he delivered the inaugural lecture twice), for 25 years, he has been giving lectures and MA seminars at the Cracow University of Economics, where he also gave an inaugural lecture), for more than 10 years, he has been lecturing at the Pedagogical University of Krakow, for 6 years, he worked at the University of Physical Education in Krakow, he taught numerous classes at the Medical College (currently CM JU); he also lectured and supervised MA theses at the Jagiellonian University, for two years lectured at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts (where he gave an inaugural lecture as the first engineer in the Academy’s history), he was also invited as guest lecturer to deliver lectures and seminars at the Cracow University of Technology. Recently, he was elected a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

 

The following universities have conferred the title of Doctor Honoris Causa upon Professor Tadeusiewicz:

  • ANSTED (Malaysian division – Kuala Lumpur) – June 2001
  • National Mining University in Ukraine – February 2002
  • Czestochowa University of Technology – October 2002
  • Wrocław University of Science and Technology – November 2002
  • Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas (Ukraine) – November 2003
  • Technical University of Košice (Slovakia) – March 2005
  • Lodz University of Technology – April 2005
  • The University of Zielona Góra – June 2005
  • The Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice – June 2005
  • Pedagogical University – May 2008
  • Cracow University of Economics – May 2008
  • Lublin University of Technology – May 2008
  • The University of Agriculture in Krakow – March 2015