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Alicja A. Wieczorkowska

Affiliation

• Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, Multimedia Department, Warsaw, Poland; Associate Professor, May 1, 2012 - present; Assistant Professor, December 1, 1999 - April 30, 2012; Vice Head of Multimedia Department for the Faculty of New Media Arts, April 1, 2016 - present; Head of Multimedia Department, July 1, 2012 - March 31, 2016; Acting Head of Multimedia Department, February 25, 2019 - January 23, 2020; Head of Multimedia Laboratory, September 29, 2000 - present (e-mail: alicja at poljap dot edu dot pl)
• UNC-Charlotte, Department of Computer Science, Affiliated Assistant Research Professor: September 15, 2011 - September 14, 2014; Associate member of the Graduate Faculty, July 1, 2020 - June 30, 2025; July 1, 2017 - June 30, 2020; July 1, 2012 - June 30, 2015, then until June 30, 2017; July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2012; Professional affiliate member of the Graduate Faculty: July 1, 2003 - June 30, 2009. E-mail awieczor@uncc.edu

Education

• D.Sc. (habilitation) in Computer Science, 2012
  Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology,
  Thesis Title: Identification of Musical Instruments in Polyphonic Environment
• Ph.D. in Engineering, 1999
  Technical University of Gdansk, Faculty of Electronics, Telecom. and Informatics, Sound Engineering Department,
  Thesis Title: The Recognition Efficiency of Musical Instrument Sounds Depending on Parameterization and Type of a Classifier
• MS in Computer Science
  Gdansk University, Institute of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Numerical Methods and Programming,
  Thesis Title: Fractals in Computer Graphics
• State School of Music (Second Level), 1988-93
  F. Chopin State School of Music (Second Level), Gdansk, Poland,
  Primary instruments - bassoon and piano

Work Experience

• Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland;
  Associate Professor, May 1, 2012 - present; Assistant Professor, December 1, 1999 - April 30, 2012;
  Head of Multimedia Laboratory, September 29, 2000 - present;
  Department Chair, Multimedia, July 1, 2012 - March 31, 2016;
  other administrative duties
• UNC-Charlotte, Department of Computer Science;
  Teaching: Spring 2015, Individual Study Class for PhD Students; Summer 2002, Summer 2001, Summer 2000;
  Adjunct Member of the Graduate Faculty, January 5, 2000 - June 30, 2003
• School of Management in Gdansk, Poland;
  Associate Professor, Spring 2013
• Technical University of Gdansk, Poland, Faculty of Electronics, Telecom. and Informatics, Sound Engineering Department; PhD. Student, 1994-99;
  teaching
• Technical University of Gdansk, Poland, Institute of Technical Physics and Applied Mathematics, Department of Numerical Analysis;
  Teaching/Research Assistant, 1990-94

Research Interests

• Music Information Retrieval
• Sound Engineering
• Knowledge Discovery
• Soft Computing
• Neural Networks
• Computer Graphics
• Multimedia

Participation in Research Projects

• from 2020: CLARIN ERIC – European Research Infrastructure Consortium: Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure (head of the project at PJAIT). CLARIN-PL
• 2013-2016 OpenArt – Augmented Reality in museums. National Centre for Research and Development project (steering committee member)

Grant Awards

• National Science Foundation, Grant IIS-0414815 "Automatic Indexing of Audio with Timbre Information for Musical Instruments of Definite Pitch" (co-PI, with Zbigniew W. Ras as PI)
• Ministry of Science and Higher Education - research support (through the Research Center of the Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology)

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