Andrzej Chydzinski received his M.Sc. degree (with honours) in applied mathematics in 1997, and his Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees in computer science in 2002 and 2008, respectively. In 2015, he received the Professor Title from the President of the Republic of Poland. Currently, he is a full professor at the Silesian University of Technology and the head of the Department of Computer Networks and Systems. His scientific interests are in computer networking, performance evaluation of networks and systems, network modelling and simulation, mathematical methods, virtualization of networks and systems, and others. He authored and co-authored 4 books and about 140 peer-reviewed papers, including publications in many leading journals. Since 2022, Prof. Chydzinski has been on Stanford's Top 2% Scientists list, based on career-long achievements. He acted as the project leader in 7 large scientific projects, founded by research agencies, and participated in several other scientific projects as a researcher. In 2007, he received for his research the prestigious award from POLITYKA, a well-recognized Polish magazine. He also received six awards for outstanding conference papers in 2006, 2017, 2018, 2022, 2023, and 2024.