Halina Kwaśnicka is a Computer scientist specializing in artificial intelligence and a professor at the Department of Artificial Intelligence, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland.
In 2023, the Rector of Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Prof. Arkadiusz Wójs, granted her the status of professor magnus (Professor magnus przyznany. Oto laureaci (pwr.edu.pl)).
Over time, her research interest has evolved from nature-inspired methods, data mining and knowledge-based systems to methods of generating hierarchies of groups of objects and Explainable Artificial Intelligence.
Up to 1989, she worked at the Futures Research Centre at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology. From 2004 to 2012, she was the Deputy Director for Scientific research at the Institute of Informatics. Halina Kwaśnicka was a founder of the Department of Computational Intelligence in 2004. She was the head of this department up to the end of 2020 (in 2021, the name was changed to the Department of Artificial Intelligence);
2001 – 2003, she was the Lower Silesian Science Festival coordinator at the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology.
Professor Kwaśnicka was invited by the Editorial Board of the London Journal of Research in Science: Natural and Formal (LJRS) as an honorary Rosalind Member of London Journals Press.
She led research projects on applying artificial intelligence methods in medicine, image analysis and natural language processing. She participated in EU projects and managed a Polish-Singapore research project. She is a member of the Program Council of the AI Tech project (invited by the Minister of Digital Affairs). The project aims to conduct high-level graduate studies on Artificial Intelligence.
She was a member of a group of international scientists and industry experts during the first scientific evaluation of the research activities of the Center for Advanced Systems Understanding in Görlitz. She worked as an expert of the European Commission on the review of the project "TRUST-AI," a Transparent, Reliable and Unbiased Smart Tool for AI. Halina Kwaśnicka is a member of the Steering Committee of the National Center for Research and Development - INFOSTRATEG Strategic Program. She was honoured as TOP of the TOP Women in AI 2022 by Perspektywy Women in Tech and received a special award: "Distinguished Mentor in AI."

Positions/functions held:
Currently, working as a research and teaching professor at the Department of Artificial Intelligence (formerly the Department of Computational Intelligence), status of professor magnus of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Information and Communication Technology;
2016 – 2020 head of doctoral studies at the Faculty of Computer Science and Management of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology;
2014 – 2020 professor, head of the Department of Computational Intelligence, Faculty of Computer Science and Management, Wrocław University of Science and Technology
2012-2014 full professor, Institute of Computer Science, Wrocław University of Science and Technology;
2009-2012 associate professor with a scientific title, Institute of Computer Science, Wrocław University of Science and Technology;
2004 – 2012 Deputy director for Scientific Research, Institute of Computer Science, Wrocław University of Science and Technology;
2004 – 2014 Head of the Artificial Intelligence Department, Institute of Computer Science, Wrocław University of Science and Technology (on December 1, 2014, as part of the restructuring of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology, the institutes were abolished and departments were established, including the Department of Computational Intelligence under my leadership);
2000 – 2008 also: University of Management and Finance, Wrocław. Professor, Head of the Department of Software Engineering, since October 1, 2006 – February 15, 2007 – unpaid leave, after the leave – resignation from the position of Head of the Department, position: professor at WSZiF;
1989 – 2003 Department of Computer Science, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, assistant professor;
1979 – 1989 Forecasting Research Center of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology, research assistant professor;
1976 – 1979 Doctoral studies at the Faculty of Electronics of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Institute of Technical Cybernetics;
1971 – 1976. Studies at the Faculty of Electronics of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology.