Piotr Białas

Prof. Piotr Białas is a Professor of Physical Sciences and Director of the Institute of Applied Informatics at Jagiellonian University. He holds a habilitation in physics from the same institution and has served as department head and faculty member since 1993. His research focuses on GPU programming, multi-core processor optimization, and theoretical physics areas like simplicial gravity and quantum chromodynamics on networks. He has supervised over three doctoral and dozens of master's theses. Current projects include GPU acceleration for medical imaging (J-PET tomograph) and real-time FPGA-based data processing.

Education: PhD in Physics (1993), MSc in Physics (1990) from Jagiellonian University. Academic roles include membership in the Academic Council of Technical Informatics and Complex Systems Commission at Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. Invited professorships at universities in Amsterdam, Bielefeld, Barcelona, and Saclay. Specializes in CUDA optimization, parallel computing, and medical imaging algorithms.