Bożena Kostek

Bożena Kostek is a Polish acoustical engineer and computer scientist known for her research applying artificial intelligence to the automatic classification of music. She is a professor in the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics at the Gdańsk University of Technology, where she heads the Audio Acoustics Laboratory.

Education and career Kostek received master's degrees in 1983 and 1986 from the Gdańsk University of Technology, in sound engineering and management, respectively. Next, she studied at Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier University in France, where she received a diplôme d'études approfondies, another master's degree, in 1989. After continued studies in France, she returned to the Gdańsk University of Technology for a 1992 Ph.D. concerning the control systems in pipe organs. She received a Doctor of Science degree in 2000 through the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2000, and was named as a professor by the president of Poland (the highest-level academic degree in Poland) in 2005.

She has been affiliated as an academic at the Gdańsk University of Technology since 1986. She was vice-chair of the Multimedia Systems Department from 2003 to 2006, and is now a full professor. She is also the former editor-in-chief of the open-access journal Archives of Acoustics.

Books Kostek's books include: Soft Computing in Acoustics: Applications of Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic and Rough Sets to Musical Acoustics (Springer, 1999) Computer Technology Applications to Audiology and Speech Therapy (in Polish, 2002, with A. Czyżewski, K. Kochanek, And H. Skarżyński) Perception-based Data Processing in Acoustics: Applications to Music Information Retrieval and Psychophysiology of Hearing (Springer, 2005)

Recognition Kostek is a 2002 recipient of the Silver Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland, and a 2011 recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.

She was named as a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America in 2020, "for contributions to musical acoustics, artificial intelligence, and education". She was also elected as a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society in 2010, and as a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2013.