Dr. Marcin Paprzycki is an Associate Professor at the Systems Research Institute at the Polish Academy of Sciences. He has an MS degree from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, a Ph.D. from the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, USA, and a Doctor of Science degree from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Senior Member of ACM, a prior Senior Fulbright Lecturer, and a prior IEEE CS Distinguished Visitor. His original research interests were in the area of high-performance computing/parallel computing/computational mathematics. Over time, they shifted towards intelligent systems, software agents and agent systems, and applications of semantic technologies, among others.