Andrzej Bartoszewicz received his PhD degree in 1993. He is currently a professor at the Łódź University of Technology, the head of the Electric Drive and Industrial Automation Unit, and the director of the Institute of Automatic Control. He has authored three monographs and over 300 papers, primarily in the field of discrete-time-sliding mode control, inventory management, and congestion control in data transmission networks. Professor Andrzej Bartoszewicz is a corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.