Mateusz Pawlik

Mateusz Pawlik

Senior Scientist

PLUS Faculty of Natural and Life Sciences

Department of Psychology

My research journey started during my Erasmus 2006/2007 when I visited Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. I did an internship under the supervision of Prof. Johann Gamper and worked on the temporal multidimensional aggregation. In 2009 I received my M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań, Poland. I wrote my master thesis "Storing and Retrieving Trajectories of Mobile Objects in Spatio-Temporal Databases" under the supervision of Prof. Tadeusz Pankowski.

I went back to Free University of Bozen-Bolzano to do my PhD under the supervision of Prof. Nikolaus Augsten. I graduated in 2014 with the thesis "Efficient Computation of the Tree Edit Distance". The examination committee was composed of Prof. Alfons Kemper (Technische Universität München, Germany), Hélène Touzet (INRIA and University Lille, France), and Prof. Enrico Franconi (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy).

Research Interests

My current research is focused on similarity of hierarchical data with an emphasis on ordered trees. I am devoted to developing efficient and highly applicable solutions for comparing tree structures in the context of tree-to-tree matching and similarity join queries. I am particularly interested in scalable algorithms for computing minimal and meaningful edit mappings between trees.

Projects

Tree Edit Distance - reference website to measuring similarity of tree structured data using the tree edit distance measure. The runnable and source code of the RTED algorithm - most efficient tree edit distance algorithm.

Teaching

University of Salzburg

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Publications

2025

Actionable Event Annotation and Analysis in fMRI: A Practical Guide to Event Handling
Monique J. M. Denissen, Fabio Richlan, Jürgen Birklbauer, Mateusz Pawlik, Anna Natali Ravenschlag, Nicole A. Himmelstoß, Florian Hutzler, Kay Robbins
Methods for Analyzing Large Neuroimaging Datasets

2024

SWOOP: top-k similarity joins over set streams
Willi Mann, Nikolaus Augsten, Christian S. Jensen, Mateusz Pawlik
VLDB Journal
The Past, Present, and Future of the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS)
Russell A. Poldrack, Christopher J. Markiewicz, Stefan Appelhoff, Yoni K. Ashar, Tibor Auer, Sylvain Baillet, Shashank Bansal, Leandro Beltrachini, Christian G. Benar, Giacomo Bertazzoli, Suyash Bhogawar, Ross W. Blair, Marta Bortoletto, Mathieu Boudreau, Teon L. Brooks, Vince D. Calhoun, Filippo Maria Castelli, Patricia Clement, Alexander L. Cohen, Julien Cohen-Adad, Sasha D'Ambrosio, Gilles de Hollander, María de la Iglesia-Vayá, Alejandro de la Vega, Arnaud Delorme, Orrin Devinsky, Dejan Draschkow, Eugene Paul Duff, Elizabeth DuPre, Eric Earl, Oscar Esteban, Franklin W. Feingold, Guillaume Flandin, Anthony Galassi, Giuseppe Gallitto, Melanie Ganz, Rémi Gau, James Gholam, Satrajit S. Ghosh, Alessio Giacomel, Ashley G. Gillman, Padraig Gleeson, Alexandre Gramfort, Samuel Guay, Giacomo Guidali, Yaroslav O. Halchenko, Daniel A. Handwerker, Nell Hardcastle, Peer Herholz, Dora Hermes, Christopher J. Honey, Robert B. Innis, Horea-Ioan Ioanas, Andrew Jahn, Agah Karakuzu, David B. Keator, Gregory Kiar, Balint Kincses, Angela R. Laird, Jonathan C. Lau, Alberto Lazari, Jon Haitz Legarreta, Adam Li, Xiangrui Li, Bradley C. Love, Hanzhang Lu, Eleonora Marcantoni, Camille Maumet, Giacomo Mazzamuto, Steven L. Meisler, Mark Mikkelsen, Henk Mutsaerts, Thomas E. Nichols, Aki Nikolaidis, Gustav Nilsonne, Guiomar Niso, Martin Norgaard, Thomas W. Okell, Robert Oostenveld, Eduard Ort, Patrick J. Park, Mateusz Pawlik, Cyril R. Pernet, Franco Pestilli, Jan Petr, Christophe Phillips, Jean-Baptiste Poline, Luca Pollonini, Pradeep Reddy Raamana, Petra Ritter, Gaia Rizzo, Kay A. Robbins, Alexander P. Rockhill, Christine Rogers, Ariel Rokem, Chris Rorden, Alexandre Routier, Jose Manuel Saborit-Torres, Taylor Salo, Michael Schirner, Robert E. Smith, Tamas Spisak, Julia Sprenger, Nicole C. Swann, Martin Szinte, Sylvain Takerkart, Bertrand Thirion, Adam G. Thomas, Sajjad Torabian, Gael Varoquaux, Bradley Voytek, Julius Welzel, Martin Wilson, Tal Yarkoni, Krzysztof J. Gorgolewski
Imaging Neuroscience

2023

Effective queries for mega-analysis in cognitive neuroscience
Anna Ravenschlag, Monique Denissen, Bianca Löhnert, Mateusz Pawlik, Nicole Himmelstoß, Florian Hutzler
CEUR Workshop Proceedings

2021

The use of Hierarchical Event Descriptors with fMRI
Monique Denissen, Mateusz Pawlik, Anna Natali Ravenschlag, Nicole Alexandra Himmelstoß, Stefan Hawelka, Scott Makeig, Kay A. Robbins, Florian Hutzler
Preprint
Can a Multi-Modular Ontology Aid Progress in Cognitive Neuroscience?
Anna Natali Ravenschlag, Nicole Alexandra Himmelstoß, Monique Denissen, Mateusz Pawlik, Stefan Hawelka, Barbara Strasser-Kirchweger, Florian Hutzler
Preprint
Speeding Up Reachability Queries in Public Transport Networks Using Graph Partitioning
Bezaye Tesfaye, Nikolaus Augsten, Mateusz Pawlik, Michael H. Böhlen, Christian S.Jensen
Information Systems Frontiers