The Department of Computer Engineering (K30W04ND03, formerly: K9) is an organisational unit of the Faculty of Information and Communication Technology of WUST (first category of scientific units) and is located in buildings C-3 and C-16 of the WUST campus (map).
The Department of Computer Engineering was established in November 2014 as a result of organisational changes at WUST. The Department is made up of a group of research and teaching staff originating from the Institute of Informatics, Automation and Robotics (IIAiR), which was established in 1968 under the name Institute of Engineering Cybernetics (ICT) - as a result of the merger of the Department of Digital Machine Design and the Department of Telemechanics and Automation. We are therefore continuing the tradition of the Department established in the early 1960s, which had digital machines - as computers were called at the time - in its name. We also continue the traditions of IIAiR in four main streams. The first one is reliability and safety of computer systems and networks - functional-reliability models, measurements, evaluation, modelling and simulation of complex technical systems, image recognition, including acoustic images, using the models of neural networks and statistical methods, computer graphics, multimedia and image processing, e-learning and computer-aided learning systems. The second strand deals with computer architectures, embedded systems, programmable digital circuits, the Internet of Things, distributed computing, data mining and bioinformatics. The third strand of research interests includes the modelling and design of information systems with service-oriented architecture, design, implementation, testing and evaluation of software quality, problems of modelling and standardisation of geospatial data and services and construction of spatial information infrastructure, analysis, synthesis and performance evaluation of dynamic systems and cyclic processes. The last strand is research interest around methods of machine learning, with particular emphasis on the theory and applications of artificial neural networks (including deep neural networks), and analysis of multidimensional data and data streams, including analysis of images and video sequences.

The department has 13 research and teaching laboratories, including general computer laboratories and laboratories equipped with specialised equipment (see Laboratories).

The Department has extensive and active international cooperation and collaboration with the economy.

The Department conducts the following Specialisations in the Faculty of Information and Communication Technology - at first and second-degree full-time studies:

• Information Systems Engineering (INS)
• Graphics and Multimedia Systems (IGM)

and English-language specialisation in second-level studies:

• Internet Engineering (INE)

The Department runs a specialisation in Automation and Robotics - at first and second-degree full-time studies:

• Information Technology

as well as on the newly-opened Informatics Automation Systems Course - in first and second-degree full-time studies - specialisation:

• Information Technology Applications

The Department also participates in the teaching process of the Automation and Robotics Course run by the Department of Control Systems and Mechatronics.

Since its inception, the Department has been headed by Professor Czesaw Smutnicki, and since 2020, Professor Ewa Skubalska-Rafajowicz has been its head.