Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences is a research institute whose science activity concentrates in the area of Information Technology. The Institute is also involved in training an advanced level technical and scientific staff and both initiates and participates in projects aimed at development of innovative commercial sector. ITAI takes part in realization of Polish Academy of Sciences' mission of advancement promotion, integration and dissemination of Polish science and contributes to education and national culture.
Our Institute has been awarded three new EU Projects, including two funded under the Horizon Europe programme for three years: PACK and Q-FENCE, and a third: Doctoral Networks project SAILING, awarded for four years under the EU Marie Curie-Sklodowska research excellence programme.
The talk considers the problem of finding applications of NISQ hardware and beyond, in the realm of quadratic unconstrained binary optimization. Some potential properties of potential problem candidates will be discussed. Particular experience with certain problem classes, originating from code theory (c.f. Mathematics 2025, 13(16), 2633), nonclassical correlations, and railways will be presented as an illustration.
Professor Erol Gelenbe, professor of IITIS-PAN, has very recently been designated as the winner of the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing Excellence Award for 2025. Given to a single person each year, it will be presented personally at the annual 2026 IEEE HPCC (High Performance Computing and Communications) Conference. The award states that “The IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (Technical Achievement) is awarded for significant and sustained contributions to the scalable computing community through the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), coupled with an outstanding record of high-quality and high-impact research.” Prof Erol Gelenbe received this award "For contributions to enhancing the scalability of computer systems and networks through performance optimization, reduced energy consumption and security improvements".
A team from the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences (IITiS PAN), in collaboration with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), is investigating how quantum technologies can support rail transport planning and scheduling in real-world conditions.
This research is being carried out as part of the project: "Advanced Optimization for Reliable and Efficient Public Transport," part of the "Science for Society II" Program.
Indian National Science Academy (INSA, New Delhi) has announced the results of new foreign fellows elections: https://insaindia.res.in/scroll_news_pdf/f-felcit25.pdf. Prof. Erol Gelenbe has been elected effective from Jan 1st 2026.
On the last Friday of the summer holidays, an integration meeting of employees of the Institutes of the Polish Academy of Sciences took place in the form of a garden picnic.
During the seminar, the results of a research project focused on generating realistic Zigbee network traffic using a Large Language Model (LLM), specifically OpenAI's GPT-4.1, will be presented. Unlike traditional rule-based or statistical approaches, the proposed method extracts representative packet samples from real Zigbee traffic.
It incorporates sample-based learning, human-in-the-loop feedback, and prompt engineering. The presentation will include two key experiments:
During the seminar, the results of a research project aimed at developing a subsystem for human–robot voice interaction will be presented. The implemented system integrates state-of-the-art technologies for speech processing, recognition, and response generation using large language models (LLMs, e.g., GPT-4).
