Jerzy Proficz, Ph.D. is the director of the Centre of Informatics – Tricity Academic Supercomputer & networK (CI TASK) at Gdansk University of Technology, Poland. He earned his Ph.D. (2012) in HPC (High Performance Computing) in the subject of supercomputer resource provisioning and management for on-line data processing D.Sc. (2022) in the discipline: Information and Communication Technology. Author and co-author of over 50 articles in journals and scientific conferences related mainly to parallel data processing on high-power computers (HPC).

Participation in a number of scientific and R&D projects, including: EuroCC1/2 (H2020: 2020-2025), EUMaster4HPC (H2020: 2022-2024), PRACE-LAB (2019-2023), PRACE-LAB 2 (2019-2023), EuroHPC.pl (2019-2023), Data Bridge (2018-2021), KRICO in consortium with Intel Technology Poland (2014-2017), MERPSYS (OPUS: 2013-2016), NIWA Center of Excellence (2013-2015), Mayday Euro 2012 (2009-2013), COPERNICUS: SEPP (1994-1997) and KBN grants (1998-2003).

He has 10 years’ experience in the business environment, as a team leader and manager, as well as a software developer and designer, working for a variety of Polish and international companies (e.g. Euroscript, Sygnity). Certified Enterprise Java architect, programmer and IBM Websphere developer, specialized in business process management tools and agile development methods.

Education: M.Sc. Eng. (1998) in Computer Science, specialty: Computer Networks, and M.Sc. Eng. (2000) in Management in Marketing, specialty: Organization of Production Systems, both at Gdansk University of Technology. Taught courses on computer science and engineering, including: parallel and distributed processing, Java programming, HPC and Big Data.