Professor of Computer Sciences (1985)
M.S., electrical engineering and computer science, Technical University of Gdansk, 1976; Ph.D., electrical engineering and computer science, Technical University of Gdansk, 1980.
Before coming to Purdue, Professor Szpankowski was an assistant professor at the Technical University of Gdansk, and in 1984 he was an assistant professor at the McGill University, Montreal. During 1992/1993 he was Professeur Invité at INRIA, Rocquencourt, France. His research interests cover performance evaluation, analysis and design of algorithms, combinatorics, stability problems in computer networks, queueing theory, and applied probability. His recent work is devoted to the probabilistic analysis of algorithms on words and designing efficient (image) data compression schemes. He is also actively involved in establishing computable criteria for stability of large distributed systems.
He is a recipient of the Humboldt Fellowship. He has been guest editor for special issues in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Theoretical Computer Science, and Random Structures &Algorithms.
Projects: Algorithmic and Combinatorial Tools for Sequence Analysis, Stability of Architectural Systems, Image Data Compression, Data Compression Based on Approximate Pattern Matching, Stability Considerations for Networks: Asymptotic Behaviors and Limits of Multidimensional Models, Data Compression from String Matching Perspective: Second Order Properties