Roman Słowiński

Roman Słowiński (born 16 March 1952) is a Polish computer scientist and professor. From 2019 to 2022 he was Vice President of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Since 2003 he is also a professor at the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.

His research focuses on the methodology and techniques of intelligent decision support, combining Operational Research and Artificial Intelligence. Słowiński's research is on the topic of using rough sets in decision analysis. He started this work in 1983 with the founder of the rough set concept, the late Zdzisław Pawlak, and continued with Salvatore Greco and Benedetto Matarazzo since the early 1990s. He organized the First International Workshop on Rough Set Theory and Applications that took place in Poznań in 1992.

Non-scientific activity

Since 2006 he has been a member of the Social Council to the Metropolitan Archbishop of Poznań; in 2006-2010 he was a board member of the Polish section of the Aid to the Church in Need organization. ) – 1991 the Golden Cross of Merit (1994) the F. Edgeworth and V. Pareto Award of the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Cape Town (1997) the Knight's Cross (2001) and Officer's Cross (2012) of the Polonia Restituta Order the title of "Outstanding Personage of Organic Work" (2017) from the Hipolit Cegielski Society (named after the 19th-century Polish positivist Hipolit Cegielski) the title of "Distinguished Citizen of the City of Poznań" (2018) from the City Council of Poznań IRSS Fellow (International Rough Set Society ) – 2015 IEEE Fellow (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ) – 2017 INFORMS Fellow (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences ) – 2019 IFIP Fellow (International Federation for Information Processing ) – 2020 IFORS Fellow (International Federation of Operational Research Societies) – 2022 IAITQM Fellow (International Academy of Information Technology and Quantitative Management) – 2022 AAIA Fellow (Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association) – 2022 AIIA Fellow (International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance) – 2024 The EURO Award for the Best EJOR Paper in the Theory & Methodology category - 2024

For his scientific activity, he has received numerous awards and honors, including the EURO Gold Medal in 1991, the Foundation for Polish Science Award in 2005, the Humboldt Research Award by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2022, the Prime Minister's Science Award in 2020, the Polish Academy of Sciences Science Award in 2016. In 2003, he received the Scientific Award of the City of Poznań, and in 2018, the title of "Meritorious for the City of Poznań".

He received 6 Honorary Doctorates: from Faculté Polytechnique de Mons (Belgium) in 2000, from Université Paris Dauphine (France) in 2001, from Technical University of Crete (Greece) in 2008, from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (China) in 2018, from Hellenic Mediterranean University (Greece) in 2022, and from University of West Attica (Greece) in 2024.

In 2022, he was promoted by the Prime Minister of France to the rank of "Officier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques" ("Officer in the Order of Academic Palms").