Lukasz Pruski received his graduate degrees in applied mathematics and engineering from the Warsaw University of Technology (under Professor Jan Oderfeld). Before leaving Poland for California he made his living managing a computer research lab that featured a top-of-the-line PDP-11 computer with 32Kb of memory.

Lukasz Pruski joined the mathematics department at USD in January 1983. Since then he has taught 36 different courses in five fields: in addition to mathematics and computer science he has taught engineering courses and co-taught Honors courses in psychology and philosophy. He has also taught 43 Independent Study courses. Lukasz Pruski served as the department chair in the mid-1990s and then as the math program coordinator for many years. He also served on almost all College of Arts and Sciences committees, including chairing the Rank and Tenure Committee. He has received the Distinguished Teaching Award from the Southern California Section of the Mathematical Association of America, the Davies Award for Faculty Achievement, the University Professorship at USD, the Drinan Award for Distinguished Service, and the Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award.

Lukasz Pruski's favorite courses include probability, ordinary and partial differential equations and multivariable calculus. When the department was joint with computer science he also used to teach math-intensive computer graphics, software engineering, and various programming courses.

Lukasz Pruski's research interests are focused on mathematical modeling and computer simulation. In the past, he worked in the areas of biomechanics, modeling human energy metabolism and optimization of sports strategies. He had also published in the field of heuristics and mathematical problem solving and had written texts for computer programming in C++ and Java. Later he worked on modeling various aspects of Brownian motion: processes with inert drift, applications in economics, and bioturbation phenomena. Recently Lukasz Pruski has focused on mentoring undergraduate research projects, mainly in computer visualization of mathematical models.

Lukasz Pruski's most favorite activities are mentoring students' research, teaching, and also reading books, running races from 5k to half-marathon, and listening to the music of Bach, Coltrane, Sonic Youth, and The Cure. But his ultimate reward is getting the students to learn and understand mathematics and appreciate its power and beauty.