Biography

Dr Adam Kowalczyk is a principal researcher within the NICTA theme of Making Sense of Data. He is now working in the life sciences where he is applying his research and commercial experience in applied mathematics physics, artificial intelligence and bioinformatics as a leader of projects in molecular medicine and biology

Previous Positions

He worked in as lecturer in mathematics for Warsaw University Technology (1978-1981) and University of Baghdad, Iraq (1981-1983) before migrating to Australia. Here he worked for Telstra Research Laboratories in 1984-2003 and Peter Mac Callum Cancer Centre 2003-04, both in Melbourne. He has joint NICTA in 2004 as a Principal Researcher at Canberra Research Laboratories and in 2006 he has transferred to Victoria Research Laboratories in Melbourne. In 2008-2009 he also worked part-time as a Chief Scientific Officer with Monitoring Division Pty. Ltd., a telecommunication start-up company, he has co-founded.

Qualifications

Dr Adam Kowalczyk is a principal researcher within the NICTA theme of Making Sense of Data. He is now working in the life sciences where he is applying his research and commercial experience in applied mathematics physics, artificial intelligence and bioinformatics as a leader of projects in molecular medicine and biology.

Research Interests

His research evolved over the years across a broad spectrum of disciplines. It started in pure mathematics, in abstract differential geometry. After PhD he started research in mathematical physics, during his time in Telstra Research Laboratories, 1984 – 2003, he worked on the number of artificial intelligence projects, including speech recognition, automated processing and filtering of free text and data mining applications for fraud detection and customer relationship management systems. In 2003 I have joint Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne for one year as a head of bioinformatics working on a number of project in the area of cancer genomics, an interest which he has developed further in NICTA, which he has joint in 2004. Currently he is working full time in NICTA developing and leading a number of collaborative research projects with partner wet-labs in the area of molecular medicine. Development and deployment of algorithms and software tools for extraction of knowledge from complex genomics dataset is of particular interest to him.

NICTA Projects

Dr Beresford-Smith was involved in NICTA’s Sensor Networks research program and in developing the NICTOR low power, survivable and scalable wireless sensor network platform optimized for water management. More recently he has been collaborating with biologists in genomics research.