Professor Andrzej Rucinski, Ph. D.
Innovator, Visionary and System Architect applying disruptive and state-of-the-art technologies for digital ecosystems addressing today’s Grand Challenges
ACM Distinguished Speaker, Association of Computing Machinery, USA
Ambassador of International Society of Service Innovation Professionals, USA
Ambassador of Polish Congress Ambassadors, Poland
Professor Emeritus, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Hampshire, USA
Professor Emeritus, Institute for the Study of Earth, Ocean, and Space,
Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire, USA
Professor Andrzej Rucinski represents a growing category of “global visionary professors” defining the role of academia in Grand Challenges, the global engineering era and developing global innovation, technology, and education solutions. He was educated both in Poland and the former Soviet Union and has conducted his academic career in both the United States (University of New Hampshire, USA), Europe (France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, and United Kingdom), Africa (Ethiopia), and Asia (India, Kazakhstan).
His service has been with high tech industry, governments, NGOs, ranging from the state level (National Infrastructure Institute, serving as the Chief Scientist) to a global level (NATO, United Nations Organization global engineering education organizations). He has been a member of the Executive Committee (Innovation Chair) of the IEEE Computer Society’s Design Automation Technical Committee. He chaired the leading conference in microelectronics education, the 2009 Conference on Microelectronics Systems Education (MSE’09) in San Francisco. At the University of New Hampshire, he is the founding Director of the Internet of Things Research and Development Laboratory, a former Critical Infrastructure Dependability Laboratory, the Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Space Science Center, and the IBM Professor. He was the Member of the US State Department/Fulbright National Screening Committee, a Visiting Professor at the Gdansk University of Technology, a Professor of the Indo-US Coalition of Engineering Education (IUCEE), an Ambassador of the International Society of Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP), and he has been the Fulbright Senior Specialist. Member of ASEE, ACM, IEEE (Senior Member), IEEE-SA, IGIP, SEFI, and ACM Distinguished Speaker.
Charter Member of eCollaborative Ventures (eCV) a new business entity operating as a collaboratory. The eCV Collaboratory members work together to solve ecosystem Grand Challenges associated with eHealth/mHealth), eEducation/eLearning, eSecurity/Identity Protection, Smart City/Region/State and Information Infrastructure technologies involving a digital ecosystem using Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud-based Computing, Big Data and Analytics.
Professor Andrzej Rucinski is a co-author of three books, several book chapters, and approximately 150 publications.