Aleksander "Olek" Malinowski

Professor
Business and Engineering Convergence Center 4259
(309) 677-2776
olekmali@bradley.edu
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Biography
Dr. Malinowski is a Professor at Bradley University. The areas of his main interests include Networked cyber-physical systems, computer networks, Internet of Things, computational intelligence and autonomous mobile agents with emphasis on their navigation. He is also a Senior Member of IEEE and an active volunteer and Senior Administrative Committee member for the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society.
Social Media:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olekmali
- Academia: https://bradley.academia.edu/AleksanderMalinowski
- ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Aleksander_Malinowski
- GitHub: https://github.com/olekmali/
- Wikipedia User
- Waze (2nd level map editor both in the USA and Europe)
Hobbies:
- Amateur digital photography
- Travel, nature sightseeing
- Electronic music (listening to)
- US FIRST: Technical Challenge Mentor for FTC Team #9985, and for FRC as a judge at regional level
- BSA: Committee member for Troop #163 and Merit Badge Counselor
Teaching
Teaching Interests:
- ECE 103 Computers and Programming (structural programming in C99)
- ECE 205 Microcontroller Architecture and Programming
- ECE 322 Interfacing Lab
- ECE 470/570 Object Oriented Programming for Embedded Systems (C++ and data structures))
- ECE 471/571 Real-Time Operating Systems
- ECE 472/572 Embedded Microcontroller Linux
- ECE 473/573 Embedded TCP/IP
- ECE 474/574 Robotic Navigation with SLAM
- ECE 483/583 Microprocessor Architecture and Design
Scholarship
Research and Professional Interests:
- Computer Programming Algorithms with emphasis on network connectivity and cyber-physical system applications
- Ethernet
- Factory Automation, Home automation, Internet of Things
- Microcontroller Linux, BuildRoot, Operating Systems
- Networked cyber-physical systems (embedded systems)
- TCP/IP Network programming for small embedded systems
- General purpose programming with C, C++, and Java
- Simultaneous Localization and Mapping of Mobile agents (SLAM for robots)
- Neural networks - theory of learning, modeling with, control applications
Recent Keynote delivered - Current Challenges for the Internet of Things Ecosystem at 22nd International Science Conference:
Computer Networks - CN2015, June 16-19, 2015, Brunów Palace, Lwówek Śląski, Silesia, Poland
Recent Publications - see http://olek.matthewm.com.pl/cv//pubs.html
Recent Student Projects - see http://olek.matthewm.com.pl//projects/
Service
Professional Volunteer Work for IEEE:
- Senior Administrative Committee Member of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society elected since 2005, senior since 2010
- Associate Editor for IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics since 2007
- Associate Editor for IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics in 2004-2005, 2010-present
- IEEE IES Newsletter Editor in 2002-2004, associate editor in 1998-2001
- IEEE IES Web and Information Technology Committee Founding Member, chair in 2005-2007, member since 2005
- Manuscript Collection and Review for IES and IES-sponsored conferences
- Technical co-chair for IECON'04, IECON'05, ISIE'06 and ISIE'15, also HSI'08, HSI'09, HSI'10
- Technical track chair or co-chair for numerous other IES Conferences
- Occasional reviewer for some other IEEE Transactions
- Occasional "expert reviewer" for some IES-sponsored conferences