Michal Pioro
Professor, TeknD, docent

Biografi

Education and degrees

MSc in applied mathematics (with distinction), Warsaw University of Technology, from October'1968 to September'1973

PhD in telecommunications (with distinction), thesis: Rearrangeable Clos Networks, Warsaw University of Technology, April'1979

DSc (Doctor of Science) in telecommunications (translated directly from Polish: Doctor Habilitated, no distinctions are given with this degree), thesis: Combinatorial Foundations of the Design of Optimal Gradings, Warsaw University of Technology, January'1990

State title of Professor of Technical Sciences (the highest scientific degree in Poland), monograph: Design Methods for Non-hierarchical Circuit Switched Networks with Ad­vanced Routing, Polish State, February 2000

 

Current university positions

Professor, Department of Communication Systems, Lund Institute of Technology, ­Lund University, since January 2001

Professor, Institute of Telecommunications, Warsaw Univer­sity of Technology, since September 1995 (full professor from 2005)

 

University positions previously held

Programmer, 1974-75, Teaching Assistant, 1976-78, Assistant Professor, 1979-1990, Associate Professor, 1991-1995, Institute of Telecommunications, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

Research Assistant (Forskningsassistent), 1984-87 (3 years, leader of the project “In-telligent Routing” for LM Ericsson), Department of Communication Systems, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden

Invited Researcher, 1988 (2 months, research in the area of ISDN analysis/design), Department of Communication Systems, Lund University of Technology, Lund, Sweden

Professor, 1994-1996 (until the School was resolved), Franco-Polish School of New Information and Com­munication Technolo­gies, Poznan, Poland

Visiting Professor, 1995, 1995, 1999/2000 (1 month each time), Institute of Telecommunication, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Lecturer in Communication Systems (Universitetslektor, vikarie), full-time, 1997 (1 year, PhD courses on network design, leader of two projects: one for Ericsson Telecom AB and one for NUTEK), Department of Communication Systems, Lund University of Technology, Lund, Sweden

Visiting Professor, July 1998, Computer Science and Telecommunications Department, University of Missouri - Kansas City, USA

Lecturer in Communication Systems (Universitetslektor, vikarie), half-time, Department of Communication Systems, Lund Institute of Technology, ­Lund University, 1998-2000

Visiting Scholar and Professor, August-December 2003, Computer Science and Telecommunications Department, University of Missouri - Kansas City, USA

Visiting Professor, March 2005, Technical University of Montevideo, Uruguay

Visiting Professor, October 2005, Universita degli Studi, Milan, Italy

 

Positions held in industry or other organizations

International Telecommunication Union, Geneva (Switzerland), 1986, 2000, 2002 -, Senior Expert

Alcatel SESA, Madrid, Spain, 1990 (1 year), Senior Network Specialist

Price Waterhouse BIT, Warsaw, Poland, 1994-1995 (1.5 year), Expert in Telecommunication Network Planning

Institute of Telecommunications (the Research Centre of the Polish Ministry of Post and Telecommunications), 1996 (5 months), Professor

Advisor of the President of Tel-Energo S.A. - a Polish telecom operator, 2001-2003

Chairman of a group evaluating applications for research grants in telecommunications of the Polish Ministry of Education and Scientific Research, 2003 -

 

 

Referees, TCP memberships

Reviewer for the following journals

Telecommunication Systems, Modeling, Design and Management, Baltzer Science Publishers, the Netherlands

Computer Networks, Elsevier, the Netherlands

IEEE Transactions on Communications, USA

IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, USA

IEEE Communications Magazine, USA

Performance Modeling and Evaluation of ATM Networks, Chapman and Hall Publishers, Great Britain

Omega, USA

Networks, USA

European Transactions on Telecommunications, Germany

Digital Telecommunications - Technologies and Services, Academy of Mining and Metallurgy, Cracow, Poland

Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology, Institute of Telecom, Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, Warsaw, Pol­and

Member of program committees at the following conferences (since 1996)

Polish Teletraffic Symposium, 1996- (TPC chairman)

IFIP Workshop on Performance Modelling and Evaluation of ATM Networks, Bradford, Ilkley, Antwerp, 1994-2003 (TPC member)

10^th ITC Specialists’ Seminar “Control in Communications”, Lund, 1996 (TPC member)

International Conference on Optimization and Simulation,1^st World Simulation Congress, Singapore, 1997 (TPC member)

IFIP TC6/WG6.3 Seventh Conference on Performance of Information and Communication Systems, PICS’98, Lund 1998 (TPC and OC member)

International Teletraffic Congress, 1999 - (TPC member, session chairman, reviewer)

European Simulation Multiconference, Warsaw, 1999 (chairman of Track A1 - Applications in Telecommunications)

IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, 2000 - (TPC member)

Polish-German Teletraffic Symposium, 2000 - (TPC co-chairman)

IEEE Workshop on IP Operations and Management IPOM, 2003 - (TPC member)

International Working Conference on Heterogeneous Networks (HET-NET), 2004 - (TPC member)

Second International Working Conference on Heterogeneous Networks (HET-NET '05), Ilkley (England), 2005 (TPC member)

International Network Design Conference INOC, 2003 - (TPC member)

Euro-NGI Conference on Network Engineering, 2005 - (Advisory Board member)

8th IEEE International Workshop on IP Operations and Management IPOM 2008 (TPC co-chairmen)

and others (I have been a reviewer for very many conferences)

Reviewer of more 25 PhD dissertations (since 1990), 15 in Poland, 4 in France,

6 in Sweden, 1 in Finland, 1 in Hungary

Opponent of two PhDs in Sweden, University of Uppsala (1999), Linköping University (2007)

Reviewer of 3 DSc dissertations (2 at Warsaw University of Technology, 1998, 2003, 1 at Universite de Compiegne, France, 2006)

Reviewer of 3 professorship applications: UMKC, USA (1998, 2004), Poland (2006)

Reviewer of 3 books (one for Morgan-Kaufmann)

Advisor of the completed PhD:s

Ulf Ahlfors, Lund University, 1999

Stanislaw Kozdrowski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, 2000

Piotr Gajowniczek, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, 2001

Piotr Karas, Warsaw University of Technology, 2005

Pål Nilsson, Lund University, 2007

Membership of professional bodies outside LU

Faculty of Electronics and Infor­mation Technologies, Warsaw University of Tech­nology, member, 1990-

Faculty of the Franco-Polish School of New Information and Com­munication Technologies, member, 1994-1996

IFIP WG 6.3, member, 2002-

IEEE, member, 1996-2000, senior member, 2000-

IN­FORMS, member, 1995-

Polish Ma­the­matical Society, member, 1980-

Associate Technical Editor of the IEEE Communications Magazine, 1998-1999

Technical Editor of the IEEE Communications Magazine, 1999-

Digital Telecommunications - Technologies and Services, Cracow, Poland, member of the Program Committee, 1999-

Journal of Telecommunication and Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland, member of the Program Committee, 1999-

Polish-German Teletraffic Symposium, co-chairman, 2000-

Invited seminars (selected)

Univeriste de Quebec, Montreal, Canada, 1996

INRS, Montreal, Canada, 1996

Ericsson Telecom AB, Stockholm, Sweden,1997

University of Bremen, Germany, 1997

Institute National des Telecommunications, Evry, France, 1997

University of Missouri - Kansas City, USA, 1998

Ericsson Teletraffic Laboratories, Budapest, Hungary, 1999

Konrad Zuse Institut, Berlin, Germany, 2004

Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (ftw.), Austria, 2005

Linköping University, Sweden, 2005

Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, 2005

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2006.

Key scientific/research/teaching qualifications

telecommunication network modeling, planning, design and performance analysis (DWDM, SDH, PSTN, IDN, ISDN, ATM, IP networks)

operations research including optimization theory and graph theory

dynamic traffic routing in telecommunication networks

queueing theory and teletraffic engineering

information theory, reliability theory.

Research

Leader of more than 20 Polish, Swedish and European (Copernicus, FP6/FP7, Cost) research and scientific projects in telecommunication network modeling, performance analysis and design. Among them projects for Alcatel, Polish dominant telecom operator TP S.A., Ericsson AB, France Telecom, Alcatel.

Teaching

Almost 30 years of teaching activities (lectures, seminars, projects, supervising PhD and MSc students) in the areas of ­queuing theory, computer programming, operations research, telecommunication networks planning, at universi­ties for gradua­te and post-graduate students, and outside for industry specialists.

Publications

4 books (two in English), 2 dissertations and more than 150 scientific/research papers and technical reports; about 100 of them are journal papers, papers in conference proceedings and technical reports published in English.

Cooperation with other researchers (selected)

Professor Villy Baek Iversen, Technical University of Denmark

Professor Deepankar Medhi, University of Missouri - Kansas City

Professor Tibor Cinkler, Technical University of Budapest

Prof. Zbigniew Dziong, Bell Laboratories, Lucent

Dr. Gabor Fodor, Ericsson Research, Stockholm

Dr. Aron Szentesi, Ericsson Traffic Lab, Budapest.

Professor Kaj Holmberg, Linköping University, Sweden

Professor Lorne Mason, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Professor Daniel Kofman, ENST, Paris, France

Professor Dritan Nace, Universite de Compiegne, France

Dr Roland Wessaely, Konrad Zuse Institut, Berlin, Germany

Professor Gianpaolo Oriolo, University Tor Vergata