Associate Professor, Director of Master of Science Data, Computer and Mathematical Sciences
Credentials:
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, 2012
B.S., University of Illinois at Chicago, 2005
Scholarly Presentations:
Wolfson, O., Szczurek, P., Vijayan, A., Leow, A., & Ajilore, O. (2017, June). Connectomics from a traffic analysis perspective. Poster presented at International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci 2017), Indianapolis, IN
Celebration of Scholarship Mentor:
StrategoBot: An Intelligent Agent for a Two Player Stochastic Game
Undergraduate Student Project in Math & Science
Agent Decision Making Given Imperfect Information in Texas Hold’em
Undergraduate Student Project in Math & Science
Reddit Based Artificial Intelligence Chatbot
Undergraduate Student Project in Math & Science
Publications:
Wolfson, O., Szczurek, P., Vijayan, A., Leow, A., & Ajilore, O. (2017, May). A traffic analysis perspective on communication in the brain. In Mobile Data Management (MDM), 2017 18th IEEE International Conference on (pp. 206-211). IEEE.
Lin, J., Szczurek, P., Wolfson, O., & Xu, B., “The observe-driver-and-learn platform for relevance estimation in VANET safety warning applications.” Transportation Research Record (TRR), Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2015.
Lin, J., Szczurek, P., Wolfson, O., & Xu, B., “The observe-driver-and-learn platform for relevance estimation in VANET safety warning applications”. Proceedings of the 94th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January 2015.
Szczurek, P., Xu B., Wolfson O., and Lin J., “A Methodology for the Development of Novel VANET Safety Applications”. Proceedings of the Ninth ACM International Workshop on VehiculAr Inter-NETworking, Systems, and Applications Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (VANET 2012), Low Wood Bay, Lake District, United Kingdom, June 25, 2012.
Szczurek, P., Xu B., Wolfson O., and Lin J., “A Platform for the Development and Evaluation of Passive Safety Applications”. Proceedings of the Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV’ 2012), Alcalá de Henares, Spain, June 3-7, 2012, 808-813.
Szczurek, P., Xu B., Wolfson O., and Lin J., “Estimating Relevance for the Emergency Electronic Brake Light Application”. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, v.13, no. 4, 2012, p. 1638-1656. doi: 10.1109/TITS.2012.2201257
Szczurek, P., Xu B., Wolfson O., and Lin J., “Intelligent Transportation Systems: When is Safety Information Relevant?” Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, Lucca, Italy, June 20-24, 2011.
Szczurek, P., Xu B., Lin J., Wolfson O., and Rishe, N., “Learning the Relevance of Parking Information in VANETs” Proceedings of the Seventh ACM International Workshop on VehiculAr Inter-NETworking (VANET 2010), Chicago, IL, U.S.A., September 24, 2010.
Szczurek, P., Xu B., Lin J., Wolfson O., and Rishe, N., “Prioritizing Travel Time Reports in Peer-to-Peer Traffic Dissemination” Proceedings of the 7th IEEE and IET International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, July, 2010.
Szczurek, P., Xu B., Lin J., and Wolfson O., “Spatio-temporal Information Ranking in VANET Applications” International Journal of Next-Generation Computing. 1, 1 (2010).
Szczurek, P., Xu B., Lin J., and Wolfson O., “Machine learning approach to report prioritization with an application to travel time dissemination” Proceedings of the Second international Workshop on Computational Transportation Science (Seattle, Washington, November 3, 2009). IWCTS ’09. ACM, New York, NY, 31-36.
Biagioni, J., Szczurek, P., Nelson, P., and Mohammadian, A., “Tour -Based Mode Choice Modeling: Using an Ensemble of Conditional and Unconditional Data Mining Classifiers” Proceedings of the 88th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, (DVD), Washington, D.C., January 2009.
Zhong, T., Xu, B., Szczurek, P., and Wolfson, O., “Trafficinfo: an algorithm for VANET dissemination of real-time traffic information” Proceedings of the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems (New York City, NY, November 16-20, 2008).
Honors:
- Grant from Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation, National Science Foundation (In collaboration with Elmhurst College)