Cezary Mazurek

Title

Europe’s Dig­i­tal Infra­struc­ture — key enablers for trans­dis­ci­pli­nary col­lab­o­ra­tion in brain science

Abstract

EBRAINS is a new dig­i­tal research infra­struc­ture, cre­at­ed as a result of the EU-fund­ed Human Brain Project, which brings togeth­er a wide range of data and tools for brain-relat­ed research. It builds on the lat­est relat­ed advances in neu­ro­science, com­put­er sci­ence, robot­ics and relat­ed tech­nolo­gies to help har­ness the lat­est sci­en­tif­ic dis­cov­er­ies for med­ical and indus­tri­al inno­va­tion, for the ben­e­fit of patients and society. 

The glob­al chal­lenge of neu­rode­gen­er­a­tive dis­eases today, which is close­ly linked to the prob­lem of aging pop­u­la­tions, is mak­ing glob­al sci­en­tif­ic pol­i­cy increas­ing­ly focused on brain research and the dis­sem­i­na­tion of knowl­edge regard­ing the health of this most impor­tant organ for humans. These efforts have result­ed in the ini­ti­a­tion of an inter­na­tion­al part­ner­ship for brain health, in which Poland also plans to play an impor­tant role. 

Pol­ish sci­en­tists, clin­i­cians and experts in cut­ting-edge infor­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy have already respond­ed to this chal­lenge by join­ing the EBRAINS Euro­pean Asso­ci­a­tion and estab­lish­ing the EBRAINS-PL con­sor­tium, which includ­ed 19 Pol­ish orga­ni­za­tions (includ­ing SBŁ-PORT). Brain func­tions such as mem­o­ry, atten­tion, con­cen­tra­tion, lan­guage and ver­bal com­mu­ni­ca­tion arise from mul­ti-lev­el inter­ac­tion and as a result of process­es occur­ring at mul­ti­ple lev­els of brain struc­ture simultaneously. 

There­fore, advances in under­stand­ing brain func­tion are only pos­si­ble with the use of tech­nolo­gies such as arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence, quan­tum com­put­ing or advanced mul­ti-scale sim­u­la­tions. The pre­sen­ta­tion will pro­vide insight into the fea­tures of dig­i­tal infra­struc­ture and exam­ples of sce­nar­ios for its use in neuroscience.

Biog­ra­phy

Dr. Cezary Mazurek (PSNC — Poz­nan Super­com­put­ing and Net­work­ing Cen­ter) for over 30 years of pro­fes­sion­al activ­i­ty has been involved in the devel­op­ment of Pol­ish and Euro­pean e‑Infrastructure for sci­ence as well as in research and devel­op­ment focused on advance­ment of ICT tech­nolo­gies and their appli­ca­tions. He has par­tic­i­pat­ed in many nation­al and inter­na­tion­al R&D projects. 

His R&D work has focused on inte­grat­ing var­i­ous spe­cial­ized soft­ware com­po­nents into con­sis­tent sys­tems for sci­en­tif­ic exper­i­ments as well as into net­work ser­vices for end users. In recent years, he has been involved in the devel­op­ment of domain research infra­struc­tures, such as for dig­i­tal human­i­ties, as well as for per­son­al­ized medicine. 

Cezary’s sci­en­tif­ic activ­i­ties main­ly focus on apply­ing machine learn­ing meth­ods to the diag­no­sis and ear­ly detec­tion of risk fac­tors under­ly­ing dis­ease devel­op­ment. The great­est prac­ti­cal impact he achieved in the devel­op­ment of intel­li­gent deci­sion sup­port tech­nol­o­gy for the func­tion­al diag­no­sis and ther­a­py of glau­co­ma­tous neuropathy. 

He is cur­rent­ly extend­ing his inter­ests to advanced meth­ods of data col­lec­tion and analy­sis in a dig­i­tal twin mod­el. He is author or co-author of over 100 papers in pro­fes­sion­al jour­nals and con­fer­ence pro­ceed­ings. Since 2023 the mem­ber of GÉANT Asso­ci­a­tion Board of Direc­tors. In 2024 he ini­ti­at­ed the estab­lish­ment of a nation­al con­sor­tium EBRAINS-PL and became the mem­ber of EBRAINS Nation­al Node Board. IEEE Senior Mem­ber, mem­ber of Com­put­er Soci­ety as well as Com­pu­ta­tion­al Intel­li­gence Society. 

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