Curriculum vitae

Personal information

• Born 1967, Warszawa, Poland.
• Married to Agnieszka Barbara + 2 sons: Jan Michal and Adam Stefan.
• In principle, vegetarian.

Experience

• Professor at Dept. of Comp. Science, U. of Liverpool, UK, [03/..]
• Reader at Dept. of Comp. Science, U. of Liverpool, UK, [00/03]
• Lecturer at Dept. of Comp. Science, U. of Liverpool, UK, [97/00]
• Postdoc at Max-Planck Institut fuer Informatik, Saarbruecken, Germany [95/97].
• Postdoc at Universite du Quebec a Hull, Hull, Canada [94/95].
• Ph.D. (Computer Science), Uniwersytet Warszawski, November 1994.
• M.Sc. (Computer Science), Uniwersytet Warszawski, June 1991.
• Mature Exams, XIV LO im K.Gottwalda (currently S.Staszica), May 1986 (Meet my class mates '83).

Awards and Grants

• L.Gasieniec (with D.Kowalski) Algorithmic and Combinatorial Aspects of Radio Communication, Royal Society Grant, IJP - 2006/R2 (12K) [06-08]
• L.Gasieniec. 13th Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, EPSRC Grant EP/D060354/1 (12.8K) [06]
• L.Gasieniec, Efficient control mechanisms in ad-hoc/sensor networks, The Royal Academy of Engineering, visiting research award for D.Peleg, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel (4.2K) [05].
• L.Gasieniec (with S.Kemp and P.Leng), COGNAC: COmparative GeNomics - Algorithms and Complexity, BBSRC/EPSRC/MRC grant G0300559, (49,5K) [04/05].
• L.Gasieniec, Spontaneous communication and security in ad-hoc networks, The Royal Academy of Engineering, visiting research award for E.Kranakis, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada (5.2K) [03].
• L.Gasieniec (with W.Rytter) Algorithmics on Compressed data: Foundations and Implementations, EPSRC grant GR/R84917/01, (75,5K) [02/05]
• L.Gasieniec, CRANE: Multiple Communication in Radio Networks, EPSRC travel grant GR/R85921, (6K) [02]
• P.Leng (with A.Gibbons, L.Gasieniec and W.Rytter) Parallel/distributed combinatorial computing using new technologies, EPSRC grant GR/N09855, (125K) [00/03]
• W.Rytter (with A.Gibbons and L.Gasieniec), Efficiency of searching engines, EPSRC visiting fellowship GR/N09077 for M.Chrobak, University of California, Riverside, USA (19.5K) [00/01]
• L.Gasieniec (with A.Lingas, Lund University, Sweden), European Science Exchange Programme (Sweden-UK), with Department of Computer Science, Lund University, sponsored by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (50K SKr) [99].
• A.Gibbons (with P.Dunne, L.Gasieniec and M.Zito), British/German Academic Research Collaboration Programme, with Department of Computer Science, University of Ulm, sponsored by British Council and German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (approx 10K) [98/00].
• A.Gibbons (with W.Rytter, L.Gasieniec and M.Zito), British/Polish Joint Research Collaboration Programme, with Department of Computer Science, Warsaw University, sponsored by British Council and Polish State Committee of Scientific Research (KBN) (approx. 9K) [98/00].
• L.Gasieniec (with A.Gibbons and W.Rytter), Communication and fault-tolerance in distributed computing, EPSRC visiting fellowship GR/M75105 for B.S.Chlebus, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland (19.5K) [99/00].
• A.Gibbons (with L.Gasieniec and W.Rytter), Fault-tolerant communication in networks with restricted topological information, EPSRC visiting fellowship for A.Pelc, Quebec University, Hull, Canada (19.4K) [98/99].
• L.Gasieniec, Nuffield Foundation Award (NUF-NAL) for a new appointed lecturers (3K).

Former Duties

• ALGO 2010 -- chair of Organising Committee
  
• 18th European Symposium on Algorithms, ESA'10 -- PC member (Design and Analysis Track)
  
• 5th International Conference on "Fun with algorithms", FUN'10 -- PC member
  
• 21st Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching, CPM'10 -- PC member
  
• 36th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, SOFSEM'10 -- PC member (Foundations of Computer Science)
  
• Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing -- Award Committee member in 2009
  
• Colloquium on Structural Information & Communication Complexity, SIROCCO -- Steering Committee member for years 2006-2009
  
• IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symosium, IPDPS'09 -- PC member (Algorithms)
  
• 27th Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, PODC'2008, -- pc member
  
• 11th Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory, SWAT'2008, -- pc member
  
• Liverpool Algorithms Day, LAD'08, -- organiser
  
• 21st International Symposium on Distributed Computing, DISC'2007, -- pc member
  
• 6th International Conference on AD-HOC Networks and Wireless, ADHOCNOW'2007, -- pc member
  
• 3rd IEEE Int. Conf. on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, WiMob'2007, <-- pc member
  
• 1st Int. Workshop on Specialised Ad Hoc Networks and Systems, SAHNS'2007, -- pc member
  
• 5th Int. Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications, ISPA'2007, -- pc member
  
• 13th Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, SIROCCO'2006. -- pc co-chair
  
• 17th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching, CPM'2006 -- pc member
  
• 2nd IEEE Int. Conf. on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, WiMob'2006 -- pc member
  
• 5th Int. Work. on Algorithms for Wireless, Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, WMAN'2005 -- pc member
  
• 12th Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, SIROCCO'2005 -- pc member
  
• Int. Conf. on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, WiMob'2005 -- pc member
  
• 14th Int. Symp. on Algorithms and Computation, ISAAC'2004 -- pc member
  
• Workshop on AlgorithmS for Wireless and Ad-hoc Networks (ASWAN) -- pc member
  
• 3rd Int. Work. on AD-HOC NetwOrks and Wireless, ADHOC-NOW'2004 -- pc member
  
• 4th Int. Work. on Algorithms for Wireless, Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, WMAN'2004 -- pc member
  
• 14th Int. Symp. on Fundamentals of Computation Theory, FCT'2003 -- pc member
  
• Liverpool Algorithms Day, LAD'03 -- organiser
  
• 12th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM'2001) -- pc member
  (some pictures by Anne Bergeron available from here)
• Special Issue of Journal of Discrete Algorithms
  on MATCHING PATTERNS -- guest editor
  
• 11th Australasian Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms AWOCA'2000 -- pc member
  
• Combinatorial Pattern Matching CPM'99 -- pc member
  
• Australasian Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms AWOCA'99 -- pc member
  
• Liverpool Algorithms Day LAD'99 -- organiser

leszek@csc.liv.ac.uk