Zdzislaw Kowalczuk received his M.Sc. degree in 1978 and Ph.D. degree in 1986, both in Automatic Control from Technical University of Gdańsk (TUG), Gdańsk, Poland. In 1993 he received his D.Sc. degree (Dr Habilitus) in Automatic Control from Silesian Technical University, Gliwice, Poland, and the title of Professor from the President of Poland in 2003. Since 1978 he has been with Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics at TUG, where he is a Professor and a Chair of the Department of Robotics and Decision Systems. He has held visiting appointments at University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland in 1985, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia in 1987, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany in 1989, and at George Mason University, Fairfax (VA), U.S.A., in 1990-1991, where he has been a Research Associate and an Adjunct Professor.

His main fields of research interests, founded on system modelling, identification, system optimization, signal processing and computer vision, include control and diagnostics, failure detection, state estimation, mobile and cognitive robotics, control engineering, and adaptive and predictive control, as well as artificial intelligence, computer science, and systems implementation.

His exemplary supervision and control systems projects included: steam-driven turbines, railways systems, power engineering, automobile and Diesel engines, ship machinery, power-filling stations, sonar applications, pace-makers diagnosis, liquid chromatography, pipe lines, industrial robots, land vehicles, automotive engines, underwater mobile robots, radar systems, intelligent building management, computer networked systems, and others. He has authored and co-authored about 20 books (incl. WNT 2002, Springer 2004, PWNT 2007-2012, Springer 1014, 2016), and over 60 book chapters, over 100 journal papers, over 200 conference publications.

He has authored and co-authored about 20 books (incl. WNT 2002, Springer 2004, PWNT 2007-2012, Springer 1014, 2016) and over 60 book chapters, over 100 journal papers (a half on JCR) and over 200 conference publications. He is the President of the Polish Consultants Society and the President of POLSPAR -- the Polish Society for Measurements, Automatic Control and Robotics (the NMO of IFAC). He is the founder and chief editor of the publishing house PWNT -- the Pomeranian Science and Technology Publishers. He is also a recipient of 1990 and 2003 Research Excellence Awards of Polish National Education Ministry, and the 1999 Polish National Science Foundation Award in automatic control.