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An economist and expert in corporal finance and bank services, a lecturer at Goethe University in Frankfurt, a visiting lecturer at IESEG Business School in Paris, Lille and University of Florence. She’s an author to numerous scientific articles and monographs issued in prestigious journals listed in Journal Citation Reports. 

Recent publications:
F. Allen, A. Hryckiewicz, O. Kowalewski, G. Tümer-Alkan, Transmission of financial shocks in loan and deposit markets: Role of interbank borrowing and market monitoring, Journal of Financial Stability
A. Hryckiewicz, What do we know about the impact of government interventions in the banking sector? An assessment of various bailout programs on bank behavior, Journal of Banking and Finance
A. Hryckiewicz, O. Kowalewski, Economic determinates, financial crisis and entry modes of foreign banks into emerging markets, Emerging Markets Review

Doctor of Social Sciences, KU Professor in the Department of Network Society Management, philosopher, researcher in the development of new technologies, especially artificial intelligence, social robots and dressing technologies.

A graduate of The New School for Social Research in New York, where she participated in research on virtual reality identity, with a special focus on Second Life. She also worked for the Polish Presidency of the EU Council as Chairwoman of the Audiovisual Working Group on behalf of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Visiting Scholar at MIT (2016-2017, 2019). 

Since 2015 member of the Program Council of Startup Hub Poland. Scholarship holder of the "Mobility Plus" program. (2016 - 2017), Kosciuszko Foundation (2014), Foundation for Polish Science (2010) and Wiliam J. Fulbright (2007), winner of the award for outstanding young scientists of the Minister of Science and Higher Education.

Co-author of the program of specialization - Management and Artificial Intelligence in Digital Society, in the course of the first degree studies in English in the stationary form in KU. In the fall of 2020, she begins research at the American Institute for Economic Research on Work Automation and then joins the Harvard University Labour and Worklife program.

Author of the monograph "Virtual Beings. How phenomenology changed artificial intelligence". (UNIVERSITAS, 2016) and many scientific publications in journals and monographs, co-author of the book "Collaborative Society". (The MIT Press) www.collaborativesociety.net, published together with Prof. Dariusz Jemielniak.

Anna is pursuing her scientific career as a PhD student in Kozminski university under the supervision of prof. Dariusz Jemielniak and student of Cognitive Neuroscience in SWPS University in Warsaw. Currently she is conducting “Big Data and Algorithms”, “Data visualization”, “Statistics for Machine Learning”, “Introduction to Python”, “Introduction to Online Analysis and Data Mining”, and “Customer/User Experience” workshops and seminars in Kozminski University. She is also developing her expertise in the domain of human-computer interaction and neuroscience by conducting research with the help of various behavioral and psychophysiological measures such as MRI, EEG, EMG, EDA, and eye-tracking. 

Piotr Zegadło is an assistant professor at Kozminski University and one of the leaders of its Master in Big Data Science program. Freelance machine learning engineer with previous 10+ years of experience in econometrics and data analytics within the financial sector. Having worked in the fields of investment banking and private equity in the United Kingdom, he later joined the Polish Bank Guarantee Fund as a treasury portfolio manager. He worked as an economist at the National Bank of Poland and built predictive models used in budgeting for the PZU Group. He was awarded a PhD in financial econometrics at Birkbeck, University of London. His research concentrates on financial markets modelling using a variety of methods – from econometrics through machine learning to agent-based modelling.

Aldona Tomczyńska is a doctor of philosophy in international political economy. She was awarded her doctorate degree with distinction at the University of Warsaw in 2017. She has worked as an assistant professor and data science team leader at the National Information Processing Institute for more than ten years. She conducts research in economy, innovation, sociology, and data science. She has coordinated multiple scientific projects, as well as participating in evaluation studies and research and support actions within the Horizon 2020 program.

Marek Kozłowski is the Head of the Laboratory of Natural Language Processing at the National Information Processing Institute in Warsaw, where he leads a team of over 30 researchers and programmers who develop software that is enriched with intelligent (primarily text and image) data processing methods. He is passionate about natural language processing, data mining, and machine learning. He has written over 40 scientific publications on semantic text processing and machine learning. Marek has participated in commercial machine learning research projects for the private sector, including at Samsung, France Telecom, Orange Labs, Millward Brown, Vive Textile Recycling, and Connectis. He has also competed in a host of international machine learning events, including the IEEE BigData 2019 Cup.

Maciej Kowalski is the Deputy Head of the Laboratory of Natural Language Processing at the National Information Processing Institute. He and his team are responsible for creating intelligent knowledge- discovery tools from large corpora of text and web data. They also develop digital e-services, such as including the MEiN Scientific Achievement Evaluation System (SEDN), for the public and commercial sectors. He is a co-founder of the Uniform Antiplagiarism System (JSA), which is used by all who submit diploma theses in Poland. Maciej has many years’ experience in implementing projects in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing. He graduated from Lodz University of Technology in computer science, specialising in computer networks and information systems. He has completed several postgraduate programmes, including in project management (TUL), processing and analysis of biomedical images (TUL), UX design (SWPS), data science (PW), and deep neural networks (PW). He has also completed several specialised courses on project management, machine learning, the use of data science in Python programming, neural networks, deep learning, and artificial intelligence. He is currently an MBA IT student at Kozminski University in Warsaw.

Obtained a master’s degree in telecommunications systems at the Technical University of Lodz. He has ten years’ professional experience related to ETL/ELT, data warehouses, and business intelligence. His areas of interest include Oracle technology, big data, business intelligence, and data visualisation. Currently, he serves as the head of the Laboratory of Databases and Business Analytical Systems at the National Information Processing Institute.

Konrad is pursuing his PhD degree on Kozminski University with a research related to human-AI collaboration, under guidance of prof. Aleksandra Przegalinska. Their studies are precursory in the newly emerging area. Having led numerous courses, he is also an expert in startup management, innovation, AI. Apart from a scientific career, he also works in venture capital industry for one of the leading funds.