One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Bertrand Russell

Short CV

Bogdan Gabrys received an MSc degree in Electronics and Telecommunication (Specialization: Computer Control Systems) from the Silesian Technical University, Poland in 1994 and a PhD in Computer Science from the Nottingham Trent University, UK in 1998.

In 1993 during his final year of MSc studies he was working as a Junior Research Assistant at the Department of Automatic Control of the Silesian Technical University where he had conducted a research into dynamic systems modelling, simulation and control with an emphasis on processes described by partial differential equations. In 1994 he was offered a studentship at the Computing Department of the Nottingham Trent University where he initially completed an MSc project concerning the implementation and development of various analogue, recurrent neural networks for optimisation problems. While working as a part-time Lecturer (1995 - 1999) he subsequently completed his PhD and continued working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (1998 - 1999) investigating the feasibility of real-time decision support using hybrid intelligent techniques. He then joined the Applied Computational Intelligence Research Unit at the University of Paisley where he worked as a Lecturer (1999 - 2002) before moving to the Bournemouth University when offered a Readership in Computing in January 2003.

Prof. Gabrys now holds a position of a Chair in Computational Intelligence at the Bournemouth University, School of Design, Engineering & Computing and acts as a Director of the Computational Intelligence Research Group. His current research interests include a wide range of machine learning and hybrid intelligent techniques encompassing data and information fusion, multiple classifier systems, processing and modelling of uncertainty in pattern recognition, diagnostic analysis and decision support systems. He is supervising few PhD research students and is currently actively involved in a number of funded research projects. He published many research papers in the areas of mathematical modelling, simulation, artificial neural networks, computational intelligence, soft computing,  pattern recognition, decision support, and optimisation. Prof. Gabrys has also reviewed for various journals, edited a book and special issues of journals, chaired sessions and been on programme committees of a number of international conferences with the Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing theme.

Prof. Gabrys is the Chair, Academic Affairs of KES International, a Co-Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Knowledge Based & Intelligent Engineering Systems and a co-chair of recent very successful KES'2006 conference. He is a vice chairman of the Nature-inspired Data Technology focus group within NiSIS.

He was a corresponding person for a Key Node in the European Network on Intelligent Technologies for Smart Adaptive Systems (EUNITE) and a co-chairman of the Research Theory & Development Group on Integration of Methods. As part of the IM committee activities he had acted as a chairman of the 2nd and co-chairman of the 3rd workshop on Hybrid Methods for Adaptive Systems (HMAS'2002 and HMAS'2003).

He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Memebr of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and the Higher Education Academy (HEA).