Piotr Szymak has been graduated from Military University of Technology in Warsaw with MSc degree in electronics and telecommunication in 1999. He serviced for 2 years in the 6th Radioelectronic Centre in Polish Navy.
Since 2001 he has been serving in Polish Naval Academy (PNA) in the following positions: assistant, lecturer, adjunct, head of department, assistant professor, associate professor. He was a director of Institute of Electrical Engineering and Automatics in PNA in the years 2015-2019. Since 2019 he has been Polish naval Captech National Cooridnator in European Defence Agency. In 2004 he received PhD degree in Polish Naval Academy and in 2016 he obtained the academic degree of habilitated doctor in Cracow University of Technology. His research area is strictly connected with modeling and control of marine objects, especially unmanned surface and underwater vehicles, including recently biomimetic underwater vehicles.