BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Since 3 July 2009, Ewa Niewiadomska-Szynkiewicz Ph.D. has been Deputy Director - Research Director at NASK. Dr hab. Ewa Niewiadomska-Szynkiewicz is an associate professor in NASK, PhD in 1996, DSc in 2005. Since 2006 head of the Traffic Engineering and Network Simulation Group, R&D division, and since 3 July 2009 the Director for Research of NASK. She is also the professor and head of the Complex Systems Group at the Institute of Control and Computation Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology. She participated in a number of research projects including three European projects within TEMPUS programme and in QOSIPS project (5th FP), coordinated a number of the Groups activities, managed organisation of a number of national-level conferences. For many years she was involved in research on complex systems modelling, control and optimization, computer simulation and decision support systems. Her current interests are computer simulation, optimisation and network modelling, wireless ad hoc networks and parallel programming. She is the author and co-author of two books, one textbook for e-learning and over 100 journal and conference papers. She is a member of IEEE.