Dr. Michał Koziarski from our Faculty is the laureate of the 18th edition of the Witold Lipski Award for outstanding achievements in the field of computer science. He was awarded in the category of computer applications.

The Witold Lipski Award was established in 2005 to commemorate the prematurely deceased, aged 35, pioneer of Polish computer science. In his short research career, he wrote a number of significant works on database theory and algorithm analysis. He also published two books: "Combinatorics for Programmers" and – together with Wiktor Marek – "Combinatorial Analysis."

The annual competition for the award is addressed to scientists who are under 35 years of age, who have Polish citizenship and who permanently reside in Poland. The 50 thousand PLN prizes are awarded in two categories – theoretical aspects of computer science and computer science applications.

In the first category, the award was given to Dr. Filip Mazowiecki from the University of Warsaw, while in the second category, the jury decided to give two equal awards. The winners were Dr. Michał Koziarski from our Faculty and Dr. Mateusz Ostaszewski from Warsaw University of Technology.

Our scientist works on a daily basis at the Department of Computer Systems and Networks, where he investigates classification algorithms based on multi-criteria optimization as a member of a research project team led by Prof. Michał Woźniak.

– My previous research work focused on the classification of unbalanced data and computer vision. My main research interests also include the applications of machine learning in medicine and life sciences. In the past, I participated in a project on cancer detection based on histopathological scans, and now I am working on algorithms supporting the process of developing new drugs and methods such as multimodal classification algorithms and graph networks – explains Dr. Koziarski.

He is also a laureate of the scholarship of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for outstanding young scientists in 2020. His work was recognized in the Polish Association of Artificial Intelligence competition for the best Polish doctoral dissertation in 2021.