Robert Wrembel (PhD, Dr. Habil.) is an associate professor in the Faculty of Computing and Telecommunications, at Poznan University of Technology (Poland). In 2008 he received a post-doctoral degree in computer science (habilitation), specializing in database systems and data warehouses. He has been a deputy dean of the Faculty of Computing and Management (2008-2012) and the Faculty of Computing (2012-2016). Since Jan 2023 he is a chair of the Data Processing Technologies group at Poznan University of Technology. Recently he realizes the mission of creating Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity Center in Poznań.
He was a consultant at software house Rodan Systems (2002-2003) and a lecturer at Oracle Poland (1998-2005). Currently he is an IT consultant in hospital Centrum Medyczne HCP. Within the last 10 years he has realized three R&D projects (two for Samsung Electronics and one for a company in the energy sector - Kogeneracja Zachód). Currently, as a team leader, he is realizing the fourth R&D project for the biggest Polish bank - PKO BP. He cooperates with IBM Software Lab Kraków in Poland. He has led at his University the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Program - Information Technologies for Business Intelligence - Doctoral College (2013-2020).
Robert visited numerous research and education centers, including: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (Catalunya), Université Lyon 2 (France), Universidad de Costa Rica (Costa Rica), Klagenfurt University (Austria), Loyola University (USA), INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt (France), and Université Paris Dauphine (France). In 2012 he graduated from a 2-months innovation and entrepreneurial program at Stanford University. In 2013 he has done an internship in a BI company Targit (USA).
In 2010 he received the IBM Faculty Award for highly competitive research, in 2011 he was awarded the Medal of the Committee of National Education (from the Minister of National Education), in 2016 - the Silver Medal for Long-lasting Service (from the President of the Republic of Poland), in 2019 - IBM Shared University Research Award, and in 2019 - International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Service Award. He is a senior ACM member, a country representative in the IFIP Technical Committee TC 2 - Software: Theory and Practice, and a chair the of the IFIP Working Group 2.6 (Database).