Research team

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Rafał Olszowski, PhD - Principal Investigator.

A political scientist and graduate of Jagiellonian University. His research focuses on collective intelligence in the public sphere, social media, electronic participation, and the history of political doctrines. He is the author of "Edmund Burke: Trwałość i zmiana" (2021) and "Collective Intelligence in Open Policymaking" (2024). From 2020 to 2024, he was an affiliated researcher at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence.

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Jakub Gomułka, PhD - Senior researcher.

An experienced scholar whose research mostly cover philosophical-logical problems of rational argumentation, philosophy of formal sciences, as well as the application of various AI technologies, particularly, knowledge graph technology, in the humanities. Cooperator of the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen (Norway) on the Wittgenstein Ontology project that aims at creating a functional knowledge base of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s thought and its various interpretations. He is also a computer scientist working in the field of knowledge representation & reasoning with a practical experience in web development and programming applications.

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Filip Gampel, PhD – Postdoctoral Researcher.

Theoretical physicist specializing in ultracold quantum gases and the fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics. He obtained his PhD in 2023 from the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). He holds an MSc from Imperial College London and a BSc from RWTH Aachen. He has extensive experience in programming and numerical data analysis, with proficiency in Python, Fortran, Mathematica, and Matlab, as well as in machine learning technologies such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, and scikit-learn. He has worked in international research teams, including as a visiting scientist at École Normale Supérieure in Lyon. He is the author of scientific publications in renowned physics journals, such as Physical Review A and Physics Letters A.

Fellows

Collaborating researchers

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Marcin Pietroń, PhD

is an Assistant Professor at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland. His research focuses on artificial intelligence and deep learning, particularly on the optimization of deep learning models, biologically inspired artificial intelligence, and parallel computing. He has authored over 70 scientific publications. Dr. Pietroń collaborates with Cadence Design Systems in deep learning optimization and with researchers from American University in Washington and MIT in the field of cognitive intelligence. He has extensive industry experience, having worked as a software engineer at Comarch and Motorola. He has conducted artificial intelligence training for various companies and collaborated with organizations such as Samsung, ES Group, and Comarch. He serves as a reviewer for Elsevier journals (Neurocomputing, Expert Systems with Applications, Applied Intelligence), MDPI (Entropy, Remote Sensing), and several international conferences.

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Marcin Woźniak

An expert in argumentation, and collective intelligence systems. A graduate of law at Jagiellonian University, specializing in the economic analysis of AI legal rights. CEO of Swarmcheck and founder of the Optimum Pareto Foundation, where he leads projects focused on argument analysis, disinformation detection, and AI applications in public debate. He was the lead designer of the Swarmcheck system and has managed research projects within NCBiR (Infostrateg) and the Horizon 2020 program on fake news detection and countering disinformation (TITAN). He has collaborated with academic institutions and organizations specializing in argument mining, discourse analysis, and AI ethics. He has extensive experience in argument mapping, AI system design, and prompt engineering for language models. His work focuses on utilizing AI to enhance the quality of public debate and support knowledge-based decision-making.

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dr Olga Poller

is an assistant professor in the Department of Cognitive Science at the Institute of Sociology, Pedagogical University of Krakow. Her research interests include philosophy of language and semantics of natural language. She is the author of the monograph "Language as a Database" (2024) and numerous scientific articles, such as "Natural-Language Predicates as Relations of the Relational Model of Data" published in Axiomathes (2022) and "Variability, Rigidity and the Nesting Problem" in Theoria (2021). She has participated in research projects funded by the National Science Centre, serving as the principal investigator for the Sonatina project (2017–2022) and Preludium (2013–2015), as well as a researcher in the Opus project (2016–2017). Dr. Poller has completed research internships at the Department of Philosophy at Yale University (2018–2019) and the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley (2012).

Collaborating technical specialists