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WNPiSM Faculty structure

DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Head of Department:

Assoc. Prof. Wiesław Cetera, Habil.

Research areas

The Department of Information Technology was established in 2021 within the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies. It conducts interdisciplinary research and teaching in information technology, security studies, political science and public administration, economics, management, media, and big data. Its big data research examines economic, social, and political phenomena. Examples include predicting the results of the 2015 presidential and parliamentary elections; comparing official speeches by Barack Obama and Donald Trump; and examining the relationship between sentiment and exchange rates and share prices through correlations with official market quotations. Department staff have helped develop and organise new degree programmes: Media Logistics and Big Data Management, the latter of which received an award in the POWER competition.

  • Security policy and administration.
  • IT security.
  • Data refinement; development of research applications for collecting data for refinement.
  • Big data processing to derive valuable secondary information; analysis of datasets.
  • The use of big data in social analytics.
  • Text mining, programming in R, and data visualisation methods.
  • Machine learning, natural language processing, Bayesian statistics, optimisation theory, and geometry.
  • Operating systems and network services.
  • Relational and non-relational databases, and SQL.
  • Websites, online communication tools, and new media.
  • Traditional and digital marketing; online marketing.
  • IT systems in the publishing and printing industries.
  • IT systems in management.
  • Innovation, modern organisation, business models, VUCA, human-centred design, and people management during digital and post-pandemic transformation.
  • Systems analysis and design (UML).
  • Business process modelling (BPMN).

Institutional Collaboration

Department staff are involved in associations and institutions working in information technology, cybersecurity, and big data management.

International cooperation

  1. Cooperation with the School of Information and Software Engineering at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China resulted in the organisation of the Academy of Big Data Incubator summer school for students from China, held in Warsaw in July 2019.
  2. Cooperation with Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University involves the joint organisation of academic conferences.

Awards and distinctions:

In 2020, department staff member Dr Dariusz Jaruga received a Prime Minister’s Award under the scheme recognising doctoral and habilitation theses, research, and practical applications of research. His doctoral thesis, Network Communication: Big Data Information Sources, was recognised for the concept and implementation of the JAZON project.

Ongoing research grants

  • Identification, collection, and assessment of hostile disinformation operations in cyberspace conducted using information and communication technologies (IKONA). Project reference: Cybersecident/489281/IV/NCBR/2021. Consortium: CRI–UW. Project value: PLN 6.6 million.
  • Development of a solution for acquiring and analysing information from big data sources in research, development, and innovation (R&D&I). Grant/project reference: 2/17/PN. Project value: approximately PLN 1.4 million.
  • Development of a solution for monitoring technological trends. National Centre for Research and Development grant/project reference: 26/18/PN. Project value: PLN 600,000.
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