Robert Wrembel

Robert Wrembel (PhD, Dr. Habil.) is an associate professor in the Faculty of Computing and Telecommunications, at Poznan University of Technology (PUT) in Poland. In 2008 he received a post-doctoral degree in computer science (habilitation), specializing in database systems and data warehouses. He has been a deputy dean of the Faculty of Computing and Management (2008-2012) and the Faculty of Computing (2012-2016), at PUT. Since Jan 2023 he has been the chair of the Data Processing Technologies group at PUT. He was the leader of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity in Poznań (2023-2024), a consultant at software house Rodan Systems (2002-2003), and a lecturer at Oracle Poland (1998-2005). Currently, he is an IT consultant in a private hospital. Within the last 10 years, he has realized four R&D projects: one for the biggest Polish bank – PKO BP, one for a company in the energy sector – Kogeneracja Zachód, and two for Samsung Electronics. Currently, at PUT he leads two EU projects on the application of IT and AI technologies in intelligent farming: (1) Chist-Era Project Call 2023 and (2) HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN-01 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Networks. He cooperates with IBM Software Lab Kraków in Poland. He has led at his University the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Program – Information Technologies for Business Intelligence – Doctoral College (2013-2020). Robert visited numerous research and education centers, including: Free University of Bolzano-Bozen (Italy), INRAE (France), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTech (Spain), Université Lyon 2 (France), Universidad de Costa Rica (Costa Rica), Klagenfurt University (Austria), Loyola University (USA), INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt (France), and Université Paris Dauphine (France). In 2012 he graduated from a 2-month innovation and entrepreneurial program at Stanford University (within the TOP 500 Innovators ministerial program). In 2013 he did an internship in a BI company Targit (USA). He is a senior member of the ACM, a member of the Committee of Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a chair of the Data Engineering research group, the representative of the Polish Academy of Sciences in IFIP General Assembly, a country representative in the IFIP Technical Committee TC 2 – Software: Theory and Practice, a chair the of the IFIP Working Group 2.6 (Database). His research interests encompass data integration, data quality, databases, data warehouses, and data lakes.