Wojciech Szpankowski#
| Membership Number: | 5658 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Affiliated section(s): | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/spa/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 Saul Rosen Distinguished Professor, Purdue University
- 2013 Guest Professor, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
- 2010 Director, NSF Science and Technology Center on Science of Information (CSoI)
- 2006 Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
- 2007 Professor, Republic of Poland
- 1999 Visiting Professor, Stanford University
- 1992 Full Professor, Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette
- 1992 Professeur Invite, INRIA, France
- 1984 Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- 1980 Assistant Professor, Technical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland
Fields of Scholarship
- Quantum information
- Computer science
- Discrete mathematics
- Combinatorics
- Machine learning
- Analysis of algorithms
- Information theory
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Flajolet Prize
- 2015 Inaugural Arden L. Bement Jr. Award
- 2012 Excellence in Research, Purdue University
- 2011 Seed of Success, Purdue University
- 2010 Humboldt Research Award
- 2010 Recipient of the prestigious NSF Science & Technology Center Award (10 year, $50m, Director)
- 2006 Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
- 2004 Fellow of the IEEE (“For contribution to performance evaluation of information systems”)
- Keynote/Plenary/Distinguished world-wide talks:
- 2020 IBM Distinguished Lecture Series
- 2019 Distinguished Speaker, Texas A&M
- 2019 Plenary Speaker, Symposium in Discrete Algorithms (SODA), San Diego
- 2018 ETH Distinguished Colloquia, Zurich, Switzerland
- 2018 Distinguished Speaker, Lancaster University, UK
- 2018 Invited speaker, Knuth80: Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Information, Pitea, Sweden
- 2016 Keynote Speaker, Analysis of Algorithm (AofA) Conference, Krakow, Poland
- 2015 Keynote Speaker, Combinatorial Pattern Matching, Ischia, Italy
- 2014 Helsinki Distinguished Lecture Series in Future Technology, Helsinki, Finland
- 2012 Plenary Speaker, Polish Combinatorics Conference, Bedlewo, Poland
- 2011 Plenary Speaker, International Symposium of Information Theory (ISIT), St Petersburg, Russia
- 2011 Distinguished Colloquia Speaker, Concordia, Montreal, Canada
