Janusz Kacprzyk is Professor of Computer Science at the Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, and Honorary External Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Yli Normal University, Shanxi, China. He has been a visiting professor at many universities in the USA, England, Italy and Mexico. He is Academician (Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences).

His research interests include soft computing, fuzzy logic, decision making, decision analysis and decision support, database querying, information retrieval, data analysis, data mining, etc.

He is President of IFSA (International Fuzzy Systems Association), and President of the Polish Society for Operational and Systems Research.

He is Fellow of IEEE and IFSA. He received The 2005 IEEE CIS Fuzzy Pioneer Award for pioneering works on multistage fuzzy control, notably fuzzy dynamic programming, and The Sixth Kaufmann Prize and Gold Medal for pioneering works on the use of fuzzy logic in economics and management.

His publication record is: 5 books, 30 volumes, 300 papers. He is Editor in chief of 3 Springer’s book series, a member of advisory board of one Springer’s book series, is on editorial boards of ca. 30 journals, and a member of the IPC at more than 200 conferences.