Vice-Rector for Education
Associate Professor Andrzej Romanowski Ph.D., D.Sc.
90-924 Lodz, Poland, 10/12 Ks. I. Skorupki Street
phone +48 42 631 20 08, +48 42 631 20 07
fax +48 42 631 27 62
e-mail: vrector.education@adm.p.lodz.pl
Biographical note
Andrzej Romanowski graduated in 2002 from the Faculty of Electrotechnology and Electronics (EEIA), Lodz University of Technology, with a degree in Electronics and Telecommunications with a specialization in Telecommunications and Computer Science, taught in English at the International Faculty of Engineering. Afterwards, he developed innovative services and multimedia products for the ICT industry, and at the same time began his doctoral studies.
In 2008, he completed with distinction his doctoral studies in the discipline of Computer Science at the Faculty of Electrical, Electronic, Computer and Control Engineering, TUL. His doctoral dissertation, carried out in part as research internships at Leeds University and the University of Manchester in England, concerned the development of stochastic algorithms for processing process tomography data and was completed under the guidance of professor Dominik Sankowski. He was awarded his postdoctoral degree (doktor habilitowany) in 2019 at Częstochowa University of Technology in the discipline of information and communication technology. His postdoctoral dissertation pertained, among others, to contextual data processing algorithms and crowdsourcing for industrial measurement data analysis. In the years 2016-2020 he served as Deputy Dean for Student Affairs at the Faculty of EEIA, TUL.
Current scientific interests lie in the area of human-computer interaction in various aspects of daily life, health care, physical activity, and industrial applications. He is a co-creator of a Master degree programme in Human-Computer Interaction, the only one of its kind in Central Europe. In this field, he collaborates extensively in research and education with researchers from Utrecht University, LMU Munich, Chalmers University of Technology, Harvard University, and the National University of Singapore. He has co-authored more than 100 scientific publications, has the h-index of 14, and has been recognized in many international innovation fora.
He has taken part in 13 research and development projects funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, NCBiR, FBW, and also with EU funds by International Atomic Energy Agency and the British EPSRC. The most recent project he is currently in charge of involves development of globally innovative software for computer forensics. For a number of years he was president and member of the Lodz Chapter of the Polish Information Processing Society as well as the Association for Computing Machinery, and ACM SIGCHI Poland Chapter. Twice, he has been the beneficiary of the scholarship of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for Outstanding Early-Stage Researchers (stypendium Ministra Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego dla Wybitnych młodych naukowców). In 2018 he was decorated with the Medal of the Commission of National Education.
Andrzej Romanowski is an advocate for student-centered education which relies on project-based, problem-solving approach and active learning methods. He is one of the pioneers of the implementation of problem-based learning and Design Thinking at TUL, as well as one of the co-authors of the currently implemented concept of flipped classroom model of education at Lodz University of Technology.