We have found out about the winners of the competition CreatiWITy for the best engineering thesis and the best team project. Congratulations to the winners!

The first place in the category for the best engineering thesis was taken by Krzysztof Wołkonowski who wrote a thesis "Anomaly detection algorithms for large data sets". In his thesis, the student of Algorithmic Computer Science described algorithms for detecting anomalies in large data sets. The greatest challenge when writing the thesis was to identify the state of the art in the field and to understand how current algorithms work.

 “We can think of anomalies as certain departures from the norm, such as diseases or internet attacks. I compare the known, existing methods and propose my own modification or improvement to one of them. It involves constructing a sample of data intended to represent the entire set as accurately as possible. As a result, the method demonstrates much better performance, and at the same time it makes it easier for us to calibrate the algorithm to a specific problem,” explains the winner.

Krzysztof Wołkonowski is continuing his studies in the field of Algorithmic Computer Science, and he's planning to further explore the problem of anomaly detection with his supervisor, Dr. Karol Gotfryd as part of his future master's thesis. “We both believe that there is still a lot of research to be done on this topic,” says the competition winner.

“I am very happy that my work has been recognized, especially at this level of the works that made it to the finals,” he concluded.

The second place in the competition belongs to Maksymilian Górski, author of the work "Application of biometric authentication methods in cryptographic key exchange protocols." Third place went to Dawid Wolkiewicz for "Image-based soundtrack generation."

The first place in the category of team projects went to the "CPP-AP" project: Command-line argument parser for C++20” developed by Dawid Lipiak, Denis Stocki, Igor Miśek and Jakub Musiał. The team of students from Algorithmic Computer Science focused on the CPP-AP library used to process command line arguments, i.e. arguments provided when calling a program written in C++. The project supervisor was Dr. Wojciech Wodo.

“A library is a module which is written in a given programming language and which contains classes, functions, and data types that you can use in your program and that define specific functionality. Our library allows command line arguments to be processed very easily – from very simple to very complex argument combinations. Arguments are, in short, values provided on the command line when calling the program. Our library is used to create CLI (Command-line Interface) tools such as scripts and terminal applications,” explains one of the team members.
 

“The presented projects were very interesting. I particularly liked engineering works related to graph theory and cryptography. It was a very interesting experience to take part in such a competition. Having to present the project to people who are not familiar with the topic was a big challenge. You had to be able to sell this project. Our presentation was quite convincing. Each of us tried to present ourselves in the best possible light,” says Jakub Musiał.

The second place in the team project category went to the team consisting of Kamil Krawiec, Mateusz Woźniak, Wiktor Sadowy and Patryk Świat and their project entitled "A system using reinforcement learning to play FreeCell." The third place in the CreatiWITy competition went to the team comprising Mikołaj Gąbka, Rafał Kruszyna, Konrad Kiełczyński and Piotr Puchała. Their project is titled "Mobile and web application supporting the management of community centres."  The third place was also awarded ex aequo to the team of Wiktor Jeżowski, Magdalena Brejna, Mateusz Pietrych and Izabela Rosińska and their project entitled "Web application supporting the process of organizing job fairs."

The CreatiWITy competition was addressed to WIT students and graduates who completed a team project during the last two semesters of their first-cycle studies or an engineering thesis during the last semester.