Henryk RYBINSKI

Specialization:       information technology, databases, information systems, data mining, expert systems, knowledge representation, Internet
Activities:               managing projects,  designing, engineering, consulting, lecturing, research

Personal:

Mailing address:	02-793 Warsaw, Srodziemnomorska 21, Poland
Phone:	(4822) 6516226; Fax: (4822) 6516222
E-mail:	rybinski@mimuw.edu.pl
Degrees:	Ph.D. in Computer Sc. (1974), Habilitation in Computer Sc. (1986), Professor of Warsaw University of Technology (1990)
Family Status:	Married, (two sons: from 1973 and 1986)
Date of birth:	April 1, 1946
Nationality:	Polish
Languages	English, French, Russian, Polish (mother tongue)

Current Employment Record:

• Director (partner), from March 1990 
      Institute for Computer & Information Engineering (private organization);
• Professor, from Sept. 1988 
      Chief of Information Systems Group, Institute of Computer Science, Warsaw University of Technology.
• President, Foundation for Advanced Computer Studies (Warsaw, Poland), since March 1994

Selected projects (both directed and participated in):
 

2005-2006	Full text search for FAOLEX repository
2005	UNEP - Library Integrated System - UNALIS
2005-on-going	Ontology maintenance framework for France Telecom
2004-on-going	AMI-SME, European project (http://www.ami-sme.org/)
2003 - 2004	Library Integrated System for ICCROM
2002-2004	Design and development of WWW-ISIS-ASFA, the system for FAO Fishery Dept., CTA
2002-2003	FAOLEX Project for FAO Legal Office - reengineering of the Legal Information System (http://faolex.fao.org/faolex)
1998-2002	Project for  FAO WAICENT a TCP/IP based software for accessing Micro-CDS/ISIS databases on WEB - (for details see WWW-ISIS); CTA
2000-2002	Development of WEBAgris system (for FAO); CTA
2000-2002	Development of WWW-ISIS-ASFA system (for FAO); CTA
Oct. 2000 - Jan. 2001	Research and Experimantation on Web Farming, for ERA GSM;

June 1998 - 2002	Data Mining Approach to Support Technical Operation, (Warsaw, Poland); for ERA GSM;
1998-1999	Project for FAO - design and implementation of the software for retrieval in ISIS databases from CD ROM for the AGRIS database
1998-1999	Design and implementation of the Acquisition System for the FAO Library
1998	Design and implementation of a cataloguing system and Intranet based retrieval for IFAD, Rome
Sept. 1996 - 1997	Design and implementation of an intranet and an integrated database system for monitoring projects implementation for the Polish-German Cooperation Foundation
April 1994 - 1997	LIS/DIS, integrated library and documentation center supporting software, in co-operation with OeFSE, OGDI
May 1995 - June 1996	Design and a prototype of the information system on public administration in Poland, for the Department of Public Administration Reform of URM; project sponsored by OMEGA/PHARE
June .1995 - Sept.1996	Software design and implementation for Industrial Technology and Market Information (ITMIN)
Feb. 1994 - March 1995	MTM-4, multilinual environment thesaurus maintenance software
June 90-March 96	Design, implementation and development of a distributed database software for Information Resource Management (IRMS); UNIDO, Vienna
Oct. 1992 -Nov. 1993	Terminology World Guide software for handling data on world terminology bodies, activities, resources, people involved, etc. To be distributed world-wide among TERMNET members
1990 - 1996	Project and implementation of ISIS based informartion systems for FAO (AGRIN, CARIN, Library Cataloguing system FAOBIB)
June 92-Jan.1993	Software for the computerized Clearinghouse database on disability related information (CLEAR), for the LAN environment;on 486 PC, UNOV, Vienna, Austria
June 89-Aug. 89	Upgrade of the FAO Library Computerized System; Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy

In addition some 40 consultation trips were done for UNESCO, FAO, ICCROM, UNIDO, UNHABITAT, UNEP, IFAD, IUCN, GTZ.

Recent and current research area, scholar activities

Research: My main research has been concentrated on databases, knowledge representation, non-standard logics, expert systems, data structure theory. I've been involved in 2 grants in the subject of semantic databases, and one dealing with data mining issues, sponsored by KBN (Polish Committee of Scientific Research). I lecture database systems, knowledge representation at Warsaw University of Technology.

Theses advised: I supervised 7 Ph.D. thesis (information systems, data mining). In 1981-2006 I supervised more than 100 M.Sc. theses. Now I supervise 5 M.SC theses and 7 Ph.D. theses. Seminars conducted (i) Logic in Databases (1986-1988); (ii) Issues of Information Systems (from 1988 - till now), both at the Institute for Computer Science, Warsaw University of Technology;

Publications: I am the author/co-author of more than 100 publications which have been published or presented in international journals and/or conference proceedings (see some selected publications). Over 50 technical reports United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Food Agriculture Organization, and for Polish government agencies.

Membership: President of the Foundation for Advanced Computer Studies, Member of the Scientific Council at Electronic Dept. of Warsaw University of Technology, Member of ACM, Aff. Member of IEEE, Member of the Computer Science Section at the National Committee for Scientific Research Foundation.