Prof. Halina Kwaśnicka and Prof. Urszula Markowska-Kaczmar from our Faculty have been listed top AI experts. Congratulations! The list was prepared by the “Perspektywy” educational foundation.

The TOP-100 Women in AI list was prepared for the Women in Tech Summit 2022, which is the biggest such technological conference for women and which is held in June. The experts were selected in ten categories: Fighting AI Bias, Ethical AI, AI Leadership, AI Research, AI Entrepreneur, AI Rising Star, AI Promoter, Young AI enthusiast, AI in Culture and Leading projects where AI is an important element.

Prof. Halina Kwaśnicka and Prof. Urszula Markowska-Kaczmar were nominated in the category of AI Research

The jury chaired by Prof. Aleksandra Przegalińska will choose the Top of the Top, i.e. ten most prominent AI experts in Poland (one in each of the categories). They will be given the Excellence in AI Awards. The best experts professionally involved in AI will be presented during the Women in Tech Summit 2022.

The list was prepared by experts from the National Information Processing Institute – National Research Institute. Their IT systems help organize and integrate data on higher education and science in Poland.

Prof. Halina Kwaśnicka represents at the Artificial Intelligence Departament our Faculty. She is one of the greatest specialists in AI, machine learning, methods of generating hierarchies of groups of objects, obtaining knowledge from data and evolutionary computing.

She is the author of over 200 scientific articles and five books, and a co-editor of two books (Springer). She was invited to deliver many lectures, she led research projects on the application of artificial intelligence methods in medicine and image analysis. She actively works on the international forum – she has participated, among others in EU research projects and managed a Polish-Singapore research project.

One of the greatest successes of Prof. Halina Kwaśnicka was the establishing of the European Research Centre of Network Intelligence for Innovation Enhancement (ENGINE), a research unit specializing in network intelligence. The institution was established owing to European funds, and the researcher became the scientific coordinator of the entire undertaking. The establishment of the centre allowed for establishing cooperation with leading scientists in the field of intelligent systems from the USA, Canada, Spain and France.

Prof. Urszula Markowska-Kaczmar works at the Artificial Intelligence Department at our Faculty. She graduated from the Electronics Faculty. That is where she also defended her doctoral dissertation. In 2008 she received the habilitated doctor's degree at the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, in the field of IT.

From the beginning of her scientific career, her research interests have focused on computational intelligence methods. Her first publications were related to classical neural networks and how to explain their operation, a field that we would today call research into explainable artificial intelligence. As this field has developed, research has migrated through pulsed neural networks to deep models and their recent applications.

She is the author of over 130 publications on neural networks, artificial life and deep networks. She is a member of international committees of prestigious conferences and a reviewer in leading journals in the field of neural networks, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Full TOP-100 Women in AI list can be found here.