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Professor Erol Gelenbe of IITIS-PAN has been awarded the high honour of "Commander of the Order of the Crown" by H. M. the King of Belgium, by Royal Decree dated 28th of October 2022. The nomination for this honour was made by the Fond National de la Recherche Scientifique which is the Belgian national research agency. The nominator was Professor Veronique Halloin, who is the current President of the European Science Foundation.

We are pleased to announce that one of our doctoral students from the Quantum Information Systems Team, Akash Kundu, working on his PhD as part of the Joint Doctoral School, has been awarded a scholarship by the JM Rector of the Silesian University of Technology for publishing in one of the best journals in the field of interdisciplinary aspects of physics and astronomy.

Professor Erol Gelenbe, of IITIS PAN is among 19 speakers at the upcoming Abu Dhabi Artificial Intelligence Summit on December 12-13, 2022. The list of speakers includes three Fields Medalists in mathematics and two Turing Prize winners in computer science. Our employee is the only invited speaker from an institution in Central Europe.

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Mateusz Ostaszewski, who defended his doctoral thesis at IITiS PAN in 2020, has been awarded the Witold Lipski Prize for the best young computer scientists. The award is given to young Polish computer scientists by the Kosciuszko Foundation. Dr. Ostaszewski was honored with the award in the area of applied computer science.

We are pleased to congratulate our employees, Özlem Salehi and Adam Glos for winning the top prize in an international programming competition organized by Classiq. Adam i Özlem got the best score and created a quantum program for a task in which the problem was to solve Kakuro, a mathematical transliteration of a crossword puzzle. A detailed discussion of the task, along with a description of the proposed solution has been made available by the contest organizers.