Keynote Speakers
Dr. Dominik Slezak
Professor
Institute of Informatics, University of Warsaw, Poland
Dominik received M.Sc. degree in
Mathematics (1996) and Ph.D. degree in Computer
Science (2002) from University of Warsaw. In his
early academic career, he worked as Teaching
Assistant at Polish-Japanese Institute of
Information Technology. In 2003-2006, he worked
as Assistant Professor at University of Regina
in Canada. He also cooperated as Adjunct
Professor with McMaster and York University. In
2008, he moved back to Poland and re-joined
University of Warsaw, where he currently holds
professorship position at Institute of
Informatics. In 2011, he received D.Sc. degree
from Institute of Computer Science of Polish
Academy of Sciences.
Dominik is continually engaged in both academic
and commercial R&D initiatives, in the fields of
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and
Big Data. In 1999, he co-founded QED Software
with the aim of developing new,
easy-to-interpret Data Exploration methods. In
2005, he co-founded Infobright - a database
software company whose Granular Analytics
technology was acquired by Security On-Demand in
2017. Currently, apart from his work for
University of Warsaw and QED Software, he serves
as Chief Scientist at Security On-Demand and he
is an expert in several EU-funded projects in
the areas including Online Gaming and Advisory
Systems.
Dominik co-authored over 200 scientific articles
and he is co-inventor in six US patents. He
organized over 20 conferences in Europe, Asia
and both Americas. He delivered plenary talks at
over 20 international congresses including a
keynote at IEEE/WIC/ACM Conference on Web
Intelligence in 2015. He is Associate Editor for
several scientific journals and he was one of
Founding Editors of Springer’s CCIS Series. In
2012-2014, he served as President of
International Rough Set Society. Currently, he
serves as Vice-President of Polish Artificial
Intelligence Society and Vice-President of IEEE
CS Technical Committee on Intelligent
Informatics.
Prof. Jean Sequeira
CEO of the 2IK Company (2IK: Image, Information & Knowledge)
Full Professor at the Computer Science
Department of the Aix-Marseille University,
France
Bio: Prof. Jean Sequeira has been the
CEO of 2IK (Image, Information & Knowledge)
company since 2017 and an “Invited
Professor” since 2008 at the IRSA (Institute
for Remote Sensing Applications – institute
of the Chinese Academy of Sciences).
Formerly, he had been a research project
leader at the IBM France company (1981-1991)
and a Full Professor at the Aix-Marseille
Université from 1991 to 2021 (Exceptional
Class Professor since 2010). He used to work
in foreign countries (two years in Ivory
Coast and six months in United States) or in
collaboration with various countries as
China, Algeria, Peru, India, Canada. He also
developed research partnerships with several
industrial companies. In 2006, he
participated to the creation of an
international organization, ISDE
(International Society for Digital Earth)
and he had been a member of its Executive
Committee for ten years (2006-2016). He is
the author of about 135 papers and he
supervised about 30 PhD students.
During the last 45 years, Prof. Jean
Sequeira has been developing research and
projects (with institutes and industrials)
in the field of “Image and Computer
Science”, i.e. “Image Analysis”,
“Geometrical Modeling”, “Visualization and
Immersive Interaction”, ”Pattern
Recognition”, “Artificial Intelligence”, for
applications dedicated to “Medical Imaging”,
“Remote Sensing”, “Forensics”, “Industrial
Computer Vision”, “Video Watching” and
“Sport Supervision”. Since he retired from
his position of Professor at the University
in 2021, Jean Sequeira has been developing a
Research and Development activity on behalf
of the 2IK company, through several
partnerships with industrials and academics.