Bio
Prof. Adam Wierzbicki, dr hab. , is a full professor of computer science and a researcher with interdisciplinary knowledge and expertise in computer science, psychology and sociology. He is employed at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, where he is vice-rector for development, director of the ICT&Design doctoral school (since 2010, several hundred students have participated in the interdisciplinary doctoral program he directs), and head of the Social Informatics research group.
His research interests include social informatics, a field of computer science that aims to design information systems and algorithms taking into account their social and psychological impact, as well as the reciprocal influence of human behavior on information systems. Prof. Wierzbicki has pioneered research on the reliability of Internet content.
From 2013 to 2016, he led the Reconcile project, which investigated methods for assessing the credibility of web content; this was some of the first research in the field. He is the author of the monograph "Web Content Credibility" (Springer, 2018), and more than 150 scientific papers published in reputable journals and international conferences.
