We are pleased to inform you that two doctoral defenses of our young researchers took place last week.

On March 3, 2023, the public doctoral defense of Mateusz Żarski took place, who presented his thesis Computer Vision and Transfer Learning in Inspections of Concrete Bridge Structures prepared at under the supervision of prof. dr hab. Marek Salamak. This dissertation was prepared in the discipline of Civil Engineering and Transport at the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice.

We are exited to inform you that the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences has joined the IBM Quantum Innovation Center established by the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center. The PSNC, affiliated with the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, was the first institution in Central Europe to join the IBM Quantum Network in February 2022 as a Quantum Innovation Center.

We are pleased to inform you that for Poland and our IITIS-PAN Institute's reputation, in 2023 our staff member Professor Erol Gelenbe has been ranked in 2023: 

- No. 1 in Electrical Engineering and Electronics in Poland

https://research.com/scientists-rankings/electronics-and-electrical-engineering/pl

- No. 2 in Computer Science in Poland

Our employee, professor Erol Gelenbe has been selected as the chairman of the Informatics Section within Academia Europaea, which has over 400 members from all over Europe.

https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Acad_Main/Sections/Informatics