Prof. dr hab. Tomasz Wiśniewski
Head of the BBQ Doctoral School. Expert in distributed systems reproducibility, verifiable workflow provenance, and large-scale parallel computing infrastructure.
Prof. dr hab. Tomasz Wiśniewski
Head of Doctoral School & Lead of SP-HPC Lab
Department of High-Performance Systems & Scientific Provenance · Scientific Provenance & High-Performance Systems Lab (SP-HPC Lab)
Academic Biography
Prof. Tomasz Wiśniewski is Full Professor and Dean of the BBQ Doctoral School. He earned his Ph.D. from AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków and worked as a research fellow in the IT Division at CERN in Geneva, where he contributed to data management architectures for the Large Hadron Collider.
His academic focus spans the design of resilient distributed computing systems, cryptographic provenance tracking for complex scientific pipelines, and verifiable execution environments. Prof. Wiśniewski has published widely in top parallel computing and software engineering venues, and he is a senior member of IEEE and ACM.
Doctoral School Leadership
As Head of the BBQ Doctoral School, Prof. Wiśniewski oversees the curriculum, research mentorship, and international mobility for over 35 PhD researchers. Under his guidance, the school has established co-tutelle agreements with top European research universities.
Key Responsibilities & Leadership
- Dean of Doctoral Studies and international exchange programs at BBQ Institute.
- Principal Investigator for the PROVENANCE-X Infrastructure Initiative.
- Liaison to the Polish National Supercomputing Centers (PL-Grid and Cyfronet).
- Directing experimental research on verifiable computational artefacts.
Research Interests
- Scientific Workflow Provenance & FAIR Data Infrastructure
- Distributed Computing & Petascale Storage Systems
- Deterministic Execution Environments & Reproducibility Auditing
- High-Throughput Computing for Large Scientific Collaborations
Teaching & Courses
- Advanced Parallel Architectures & Distributed Systems (CS-705)
- Scientific Data Provenance and Open Research Methods (DOC-101)
- Doctoral Colloquium in Computing Infrastructure (DOC-901)
Selected Recent Publications
- Wiśniewski, T., Kowalczyk, J., Nowak, K. (2026). Cryptographic Provenance Graphs for Exascale Workflow Pipelines. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS).
- Wiśniewski, T. (2025). Deterministic Containerization and Data Lineage in HPC Clusters. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS).
- Wiśniewski, T., Wójcik, M. (2024). Reproducible Computational Pipelines in High-Throughput Genomics. Bioinformatics.
Office Hours & Student Advising
- Office hours: Thursdays 13:00–15:00 (Room 4.12).
- Oversees admissions and qualifying examinations for doctoral candidates.