Dr. Zdzislaw Polkowski is  Professor of UJW at Faculty of Technical Sciences and Rector’s Representative for International Cooperation and Erasmus+ Program at the Jan Wyzykowski University Polkowice. Since 2019 he is also Adjunct Professor inDepartment of Business Intelligence in Management,  Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Poland. Since 2021 Zdzislaw Polkowski collaborates with The Karkonosze State University of Applied Sciences in Jelenia Góra, Poland. Moreover, he is visiting professor in Univeristy of Pitesti, Romania, WSG University Bydgoszcz, Poland and adjunct professor in Marwadi University, India. He is the former dean of the Technical Sciences Faculty during the period 2009 -2012 at UZZM in Lubin.  He holds a PhD degree in Computer Science and Management from Wroclaw University of Technology, Post Graduate degree in Microcomputer Systems in Management from University of Economics in Wroclaw and Post Graduate degree IT in Education from Economics University in Katowice. He obtained his Engineering degree in Computer Systems in Industry  from Technical University of Zielona Gora. He has published more than 120 papers in journals, 25 conference proceedings, including more than 50 papers in journals indexed in the Web of Science, Scopus, IEEE.

Dr. Polkowski is co-editor of  5 books which have been published in Springer and CRC Press Taylor & Francis. He served as a member of Technical Program Committee in many International conferences, journals in Poland, India, China, Iran, Syria, United Kingdom,  Romania, Turkey and Bulgaria. Till date he has delivered over 60 invited talks at different international conferences across various countries. He is also the member of the Board of Studies and expert member of the doctoral research committee in many universities in India. He is also the member of the editorial board of several journals and served as a reviewer in a wide range of international journals. His area of interests includes IT in Business, IoT in Business and Education Technology. He has successfully completed a research project on Developing the innovative methodology of teaching Business Informatics funded by the European Commission. He also owns an IT SME consultancy company in Polkowice and Lubin, Poland.