Zdzislaw I. Pawlak (10 November 1926 – 7 April 2006) was a Polish mathematician and computer scientist.

He was affiliated with several organization, including the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Warsaw School of Information Technology.

[1] He also introduced the Pawlak flow graphs, a graphical framework for reasoning from data.

In 1946 he passed his Baccalaureate Diploma examination, and in 1947 he began studies at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Łódź University of Technology.

degree in Telecommunications in 1951, after which he worked in the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences until 1957.