Agnieszka Lazarowska received her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Gdynia Maritime University, Gdynia, Poland, in 2015 and her D.Sc. degree in automation, electronics, electrical engineering, and space technologies in 2023. From 2009 to 2015, she was a Research Assistant in the Department of Ship Automation at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Gdynia Maritime University, Gdynia, Poland, and has been an Assistant Professor since 2015 and an Associate Professor since 2023. She currently serves as the Head of the Department of Autonomous Systems at the Faculty of Computer Science, Gdynia Maritime University. Her research interests include guidance systems, autonomous navigation systems, safe ship control systems, decision support systems, path planning algorithms, deterministic and nondeterministic optimization methods, artificial intelligence, swarm intelligence, safe navigation, unmanned and autonomous ships, and other autonomous vehicles. In 2018–2019, she was a research coordinator and principal investigator on the research project "Research on New Obstacle Avoidance Algorithms for Ships" (NOAA), funded by the International Association of Maritime Universities (IAMU) and the Nippon Foundation in Japan.