The wroclaw.pl city portal has once again announced the ranking of 30 creative residents of Wrocław whose talents and passions granted them international success. One of them is Paweł Narolski, a doctoral student at theDepartment of Artificial Intelligence. His company Neural was recognised in the “business” category. The ranking list also includes five other people associated with Wrocław Tech.

The winners were selected from among the candidates submitted by the readers of the portal. The prizes were awarded in the following categories: society/city, culture/art/design, science and business.

Our student, Paweł Narolski was recognised in the “business” category for the development of his company Neural. He is a graduate of Algorithmic Computer Science, and currently a PhD student at the Department of Artificial Intelligence at our Faculty, where he conducts research at the intersection of computer vision, representation learning, and cybersecurity.

His start-up is working on Ai-based multimodal event analytics in video monitoring. Using existing cameras and sensors installed in cities, its flagship product – CityGuard enables automatic detection of dangerous events, such as car accidents or fainting, and reduces the time needed to provide assistance and find relevant information in the data. CityGuard is already being used in the first cities in Poland, including Szczecinek. In 2025, Neural received the Startup Wrocław award during the final gala of the Made in Wrocław project.

His research is motivated by the challenge that artificial intelligence applications pose in critical information systems crucial for our security. In particular, it examines methods of protection against biometric attacks such as Face Morphing to ensure the integrity of digital identity, as well as the use of large visual language models in the public security sector. His research aims to establish new reliability standards for AI systems, balancing between performance and rigorous requirements in modern algorithmics.

Between 2020 and 2025, Paweł Narolski also led research and development of Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) and Injection Attack Detection (IAD) systems compliant with ISO/IEC standards, used by banks and telecommunications companies in Poland and worldwide. He graduated from the program Pioneers School by Cambridge Enterprise, University of Cambridge and Polish Development Fund, and he is a member of the Eurpean Association for Biometrics.

The ranking also includes the following researchers from Wrocław Tech:

• Dr. Hab. Anna Siekierka, University Professor (Faculty of Chemistry)
• Dr. Weronika Urbańska (Faculty of Environmental Engineering)
• Jarosław Sowizdraniuk (Faculty of Medicine)
• Prof. Artur Podhorodecki / QNA Technology (Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology)
• Dr. Mateusz Bański / QNA Technology (Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology)

The full list of 30 Creative Residents of Wrocław is available on the competition's website.