Tomasz Kajdanowicz

About Tomasz Kajdanowicz

Tomasz Kajdanowicz, Ph.D., D.Sc., is currently an associate professor of artificial intelligence with Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland. He is also the Head of the Department of Artificial Intelligence at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology. He received Ph.D. from Wroclaw University of Technology in 2012 with distinction and D.Sc. in 2020 from the Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.

His research interests include machine learning, deep learning, representation learning, social network analysis, social media analysis, and recommender systems.

Tomasz Kajdanowicz is a practitioner of artificial intelligence and an evangelizer of its responsible use in the relationship of citizens-local government-industry-science. He is also an innovator and entrepreneur, a graduate of TOP 500 Innovators at Stanford University.

Education

  • 2020 - Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland), Ds.C., computer science

  • 2013 - Stanford University, Stanford Center for Professional Development (USA), TOP 500 Innovators: Science – Management – Commercialization program

  • 2008-2012 - Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (Poland), Ph.D., computer science, thesis: Classification Methods Based on Multi-label Problem Transformation

  • 2010-2011 - Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (Poland), Dipl., Project management

  • 2003-2008 - Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (Poland), M.Sc., computer science, thesis: Multidimensional Social Network Analysis

  • 2005-2006 - Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain), M.Sc., computer science, Erasmus

Positions

  • 2021-now - Associate Professor, Head of Department of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (Poland)

  • 2020-2021 - Associate Professor, Deputy Head of Department of Computational Intelligence, Faculty of Computer Science and Management, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (Poland)

  • 2020-2021 - Head of doctoral studies at Faculty of Computer Science and Management, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (Poland)

  • 2019 - Visiting Scholar (post-doc), Center for Sustainable Development & Global Competitiveness, Stanford University (USA)

  • 2018-2019 - Visiting Professor (post-doc), Advanced Analytics Institute, University of Technology Sydney (Australia)

  • 2018 - Visiting Scholar (post-doc), Data, Inference, Analytics, and Learning (DIAL) Lab, University of Notre Dame (USA)


Publications

In 2010 I received the Microsoft Research Cambridge Award for the 3rd Best Poster at International Summer School of Pattern Recognition, Plymouth, UK.In 2009, 2010 and 2011,2012 I was granted the University Award for Accomplishments in Research (Wroclaw University of Technology). For years 2010-2012 I received a scholarship from The European Union in The Human Capital Program. Additionally, in 2011 I obtained a research grant from The Polish Ministry of Science.

ISSPR 2010 AWARD

Wroclaw University of Technology is one of the best technical universities in Poland – over 32 000 students study here under the guidance of 2 000 academic teachers, at the 12 faculties and the Department of Fundamental Studies, as well as in the 4 regional branches. Recently, it has been announced the best technical university in Poland for the second consecutive time in the oldest Polish ranking of higher education schools carried out by the “Wprost” magazine (in 2006 and 2007). Wroclaw University of Technology appears as the capital of Polish computer science. This is because of the European level of teaching and research run by the university employees. Their achievements are recognised not only in Poland but also abroad.

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