Mieczysław Kuczma is a full professor at the Poznan University of Technology (PUT), Faculty of Civil Engineering and Transport. He received his education in civil engineering at PUT and in applied mathematics at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He earned the degrees of Doctor of Engineering (Dr inż.) and Doctor habilitatus (Dr hab.) from PUT and was subsequently awarded the title of Professor by the President of the Republic of Poland.
Professor Kuczma has conducted research at PUT, the University of Zielona Góra, and several international institutions, including Leibniz University Hannover (IBNM, IfAM), Brunel University London (BICOM), the University of Texas at Austin (Oden Institute), and TU Dresden. His research focuses on the mechanics of solids and structures, with particular emphasis on modelling concrete and shape memory materials, as well as numerical methods for variational inequality formulations governing complex deformation processes.
Professor Kuczma served two terms as President of the Polish Association for Computational Mechanics (2013–2015, 2015–2017). He has organized numerous national and international conferences, including the International Conference on Computer Methods in Mechanics (CMM 2009) and the 95th Annual Meeting of the Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM 2025). He is a member of the Committee on Mechanics of the Polish Academy of Sciences and serves as Chair of the Section on Applications of Mathematics in Mechanics.

W.F. Lawless (2026, 2/9). USMC-R (ret.), Lt.Col aviator; P.E. (Mech. Eng.) In 1977, he was an ME with
Department of Energy’s (DOE) SRS, SC, in charge of nuclear waste management, when he blew the
whistle on DOE’s mismanagement of radioactive wastes. After his PhD, 1992, DOE invited him to join its
board at DOE-SRS, where he coauthored recommendations on environmental remediation to treat DOE’s
radioactive wastes (e.g., the regulated closure in 1997 of the first two high-level radioactive waste tanks).
His research today is on autonomous human-machine teams. With the Naval Research Lab, DC, he has
co-edited 14 books on AI (Springer 2016; 2017; CRC 2018; Elsevier 2019; 2020 [Elsevier nominated the
latter, "Human-Machine Shared Contexts," to ASIS&T for its Information Science book of the year award
for 2020]; Springer, 2021; Springer LNCS, 2021; Frontiers in Physics, 2023; Elsevier, 2024a; 2024b;
2025; 2026 (forthcoming); Entropy 2025). He co-organized a special issue on “human-machine teams and
explainable AI,” AI Magazine (2019; 1st editorial). He authored 300+ peer-reviewed publications. He co
organized thirteen AAAI symposia at Stanford. For Frontiers in Physics, he co-organized:
"Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Structure and Performance of Interdependent Autonomous Human
Machine Teams and Systems” (2nd ed.); AHFE’s 2023 SIG Data dependency; and 2025 SIG: Human
machine-AI bi-directionality; Entropy's Special Issue, 2025: "An Entropy Approach to the Structure and
Performance of Interdependent Autonomous Human Machine Teams and Systems” (3rd ed.). He has
multiple awards, including top article AHFE 2024, distinguished faculty position at Naval Research Lab,
DC, summer 2025, and AHFE’s Distinguished Researcher Award 2025. He co-organized AAAI-26
workshop and AHFE’s S.I.G. 2026 symposium (“Orchestrating Synthesized Human and AI-Agentic
Workflows: AI Agency Benefits, Disruptions and Management”).