About me

Prof. Adam Wierzbicki is a Full Professor of Informatics; a researcher with interdisciplinary knowledge and experience in informatics, psychology and sociology. He is employed at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, where he is Vice-President, Head of Ph.D programme (since 2010, this interdisciplinary program involved several hundred students), and leader of a research group in Social Informatics. His research interests lie in Social Informatics, an area of informatics that aims to design information systems and algorithms while taking into account their social and psychological impact, as well the reciprocal impact of human behavior on information systems. Prof. Wierzbicki has been a pioneer of research on Web content credibility. In 2013-2016, he has led the Reconcile project that researched methods of Web content credibility evaluation, pioneering research in this area before the term “fake news” was coined. He is an author of the monograph “Web content credibility” (Springer, 2018). Prof. Wierzbicki is the Steering Committee Chair of the International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo), and a Senior Member of ACM.