Marcin Sydow: achievements and activity

Program Committees:

• WWW (Senior Program Committee Member) 2018-2023, ACM SIGKDD since 2015, , SDM Conference 2023, ACM WSDM 2016, 2015 (The 8th and 9th International ACM Web Search and Data Mining Conference); IJCAI 2016 (25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence); IEEE/WIC/ACM WI 2005--2015 (Web Intelligence Conference); ISWC 2017, ESWC 2014--2016 (12th European Semantic Web Conference); SumPre2015 (Workshop on Summarizing and Presenting Entities and Ontologies, co-located with ESWC 2015); KDIR 2009--2015 (Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval); ANT 2015 (6th Ambient Networks and Technologies Confrence); FedSCiS AAIA 2015 -- 2018; LPIIS 2013; ISMIS 2012--2017 (21th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems), IRA 2009 (a worhskop at SIGIR 2009, Information Retrieval and Advertising Workshop); SIIS 2011; TROA 2008 (1st Workshop on Targeting and Ranking for On-line Advertising, co-located with WWW 2008 Conference); ECML/PKDD 2007; SAW 2008, 2007 (Social Aspects of the Web)
• Scientific Journals (Member of the Reviewers' Board):
  • Information Sciences (Elsevier) 2015
  • JIIS (Springer's Journal of Intelligent Information Systems) 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2004
  • IJDMMM (International Journal on Data Mining, Modelling and Management) 2011, 2010
  • Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer (invited reviewer for the "Computational Linguistics and Applications" book) 2012
  • Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences

  Selected Achievements:

  • 1st prize on the ECML/PKDD 2007 Discovery Challenge
  • 2010 DAAD scholarship award (for funding a research stay at MPII Saarbruecken in 2010)
  • Outstanding Reviewer Award ACM WSDM 2015 Conference (Web Search and Data Mining)

  Selected Grants:

  • 2011, Polish National Science Centre grant N N516 481940 "DIVERSUM" (Principal Investigator) 2011-2013 (completed)
  • 2013, Polish National Science Centre grant 2012/07/B/ST6/01239 "DISQUSS" (Principal Investigator) 2013-2015 (ongoing)

  Other activities:

• Expert in the National Program "Foresight Polska 2020" (Research Area Panel: Information and Telecom. Technol.)
• Head of the Chair of Foundations of AI, PJAIT (since 2022)
• Head of the Chair of Intelligent Systems, Algorithms and Mathematics at PJIIT (till 2022)
• Member (since 2007) of the Senate and the Scientific Council of the CS Faculty at PJIIT
• Founder and head of the "AI academic special interest group", PJAIT (since 2023)
• Founder and head of Web Mining Lab - an independent research unit at my institute
• Coordinator of the Web Mining Seminar - a cycle of invited open lectures at PJIIT (2007-2010)
• Volunteer Team Member on IW3C/ACM World Wide Web Conference (2004, 2005, 2006)