Pawel Kulakowski, biography

PAWEL KULAKOWSKI, PhD, DSc

Associate Professor
Institute of Telecommunications
AGH University
Czarnowiejska 74, 30-054 Krakow
Poland

AGH building B9, room 312
tel. +48 12 617 3967
e-mail: kulakowski at agh.edu.pl

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Previous positions:

Post-Doc Invited Researcher, Albacete Research Institute of Informatics, University of Castilla-La Mancha : March 2011 - August 2011
Post-Doc Research Associate, Broadband Communications and Distributed Systems Research Group, University of Girona : January 2010 - June 2010
Visiting Professor, Área de Ingeniería Telemática, Technical University of Cartagena : October 2008 - December 2009

PUBLICATIONS

Research projects:

COST Action CA22168 6G-PHYSEC: "Physical layer security for trustworthy and resilient 6G systems" (project website), as MC Member, 2023-2027
COST Action CA20124 AI4NICU: "Maximising impact of multidisciplinary research in early diagnosis of neonatal brain injury" (project website), as MC Member and Grant Awarding Coordinator, 2021-2025
COST Action CA20120 INTERACT: "Intelligence-Enabling Radio Communications for Seamless Inclusive Interactions" (project website), as MC Member, 2021-2025
National Centre for Research and Development project: "Developing tools for industrial 5G networks planning, using advanced measurement techniques and AI-aided propagation models for mmWaves" with Blare Technologies, as Industry Consultant, 2022-2023
National Centre for Research and Development project: "Understanding mmWaves as a gateway for seamless 5G network planning" with Blare Technologies, as R&D Manager, 2019-2021
COST Action CA15104 IRACON: "Inclusive Radio Communication Networks for 5G and beyond", as MC Member, 2016-2020
COST Action IC1004 "Cooperative Radio Communications for Green Smart Environments", as MC Member and Chair of Topical Indoor Working Group, 2011-2015
Andalusian project of excellence P07-TIC-02476 ARTICA: Application of wireless sensor networks and computational intelligence techniques in environmental monitoring, University of Seville, March-September 2012
National research project: "The design and optimisation of mobile wireless networks", 2008-2010
COST Action 2100 "Pervasive Mobile & Ambient Wireless Communications", 2007-2010
IST-EU project: Antenna Centre of Excellence, 2005-2006
National research project: "Analysis of new transmission techniques in ad hoc WLAN networks and performance evaluation of the offered services", 2003-2007

Grants and awards:

AGH Rector's Awards for: Education (2023), Organizational Achievements (2023), Research (2021), Organizational Achievements (2019), Education (2015, 2013)
Miniatura, a research grant from National Science Centre Poland, 2018
Scholarship for young outstanding researchers, Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, 2014-2017
Secondment grant of UNITE FP7 Project, March 2011 - August 2011
Best Paper Award, JITEL Conference, 2009
Sponsored scholarship of Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education:
"A support for the international mobility of researchers", October 2008 - December 2009
The winner of Best Student Paper Competition, KKRRiT Conference, 2005
III award in Best Student Paper Competition, KKRRiT Conference, 2004
Stanislaw Staszic Bronze Distinction for High Grades in Studies, 2003
The winner of Competition in Physics for Secondary School Students, 1995

Providing training and lectures on AI and wireless networks:

Lecturer, Machine learning training course, Motorola, online, June 2025
Invited lectures "Introduction to shallow and deep AI techniques" and "AI for medical data predictions", Joint PARENT / AI-4-NICU Training School, Turin, , July 8-10, 2024
Lecturer, "Machine learning upskill course", Ericsson, online, five editions: from February 2022 to May 2025
Invited lecture "Introduction to artificial neural networks. Deep learning solutions" at 5th Congress of joint European Neonatal Societes, Rome , September 20-23, 2023
Invited lecture "Artificial intelligence: deep learning and its medical applications", Inauguration of Academic Year, Faculty of Computer Science, Electronics and Telecommunications, AGH University, Krakow , October 5, 2023
Invited lecture "Introduction to machine learning" at AI4NICU Training School, Helsinki , May 30-June 1, 2022
Lectures for Blare Technologies on AI and machine learning, May-June 2022
Instructor, "Analysis of radio wave propagation for 5G networks", for Blare Technologies, Gdynia , March 14, 2019

Conferences and journals related duties:

Tutorial Co-Chair of EuCNC & 6G Summit, Porto, June 2021
Executive Editor in Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies 2011-2022, Top5 Executive Editor 2014-2015
Local organizer of the 11th IC1004 MC and Scientific Meeting, Krakow, September 2014
Guest Editor of Special Issue on Wireless Ad Hoc Sensor Networks in International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, September 2013: Editorial
Publication Chair of NEWCOM++ / COST 2100 Joint Workshop on Wireless Communications, March 2011
General Chair of International Workshop on Advances in Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks (AWSAN'10) organised jointly with WiMob'10 conference, October 2010
Reviewer of technical books for IEEE Communications Magazine
Reviewer of articles for international technical journals and conferences (as a TPC member)

Courses and internships:

Short Term Scientific Mission at INFANT Research Centre, University College Cork 9-27 of August 2023
Short Term Scientific Mission at Technical University of Cartagena 29 March-10 April 2019
Erasmus stay at Group for Research On Wireless (GROW), Instituto Superior Tecnico - University of Lisbon January 2019
Research stay at GROW, Instituto Superior Tecnico - University of Lisbon April-May 2018
Erasmus stay at Technical University of Cartagena September 2017
Research Team Management Training Course given by HFP Consulting, Krakow 19-20 March 2015
Short Term Scientific Mission at Albacete Research Institute of Informatics, UCLM February-April 2013
Research stay at Department of Electronic Technology, University of Seville July 2012
"Wireless Sensor Networks" - NEWCOM++ Summer School, Bressanone 30 June-4 July 2008
"Wireless Network Optimisation" - COST 2100 Training School, Wroclaw 4-6 of February 2008
Short Term Scientific Mission at Technical University of Cartagena 13-20 of January 2008
"Cooperative Communications and Distributed Antennas" - a course at Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC) 16-20 of October 2006
"Propagation in Mobile Communications" - a course at Universita degli Studi di Siena 5-9 of June 2006
"MIMO Communications Systems and Antennas" - a course at Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan (KTH) 5-9 of September 2005

Others:

First Aid Certificate of Polish Red Cross, 2005
Volunteer worker at Polish Humanitarian Action, 2002-2003
Teacher of mathematics at a school for visually impaired children, Krakow, Poland, 2000-2003
Certificate of Yacht Coastal Skipper, from 1998
First Certificate in English (FCE) given by University of Cambridge, 1997
Driving license, from 1996

Personal:

Married with a writer
What I did for love
Astrid and Clinker
Through the Ages, Eclipse, Twilight Struggle and Study in Emerald player

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