Dominik Filipiak

AI Research Scientist, Academic Teacher

Yellowshift GmbH, Universität Innsbruck, University of Warsaw

dominik.filipiak[☂]student.uibk.ac.at

(last update: Jul 2023)

Hello! I'm Dominik and I've been working with AI and data since 2011. I majored in Computer Science with distinction at Poznań University of Technology and have a PhD in Economics (Information Systems) from Poznań University of Economics and Business. I'm also doing my second PhD (this time in Computer Science) at University of Innsbruck. I was also studying undergrad pure maths at Adam Mickiewicz University during the weekends to get better with the theory of machine learning (extramural studies). You can describe me as a mixture of technical experience, theoretical background, and strong leadership streak.

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, AI Leadership, Natural Language Processing, Quantitative Analysis, Big Data
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1. Introduction

I have a T-shaped skill set, which means that I can handle management (on project, operational and strategic level), dev ops (such as setting up Hadoop/Spark clusters from scratch), data engineering (e.g. writing web crawlers to get the data and refine the results), data science (building, training and improving complex ML models in PyTorch), and AI research (writing scientific papers and pushing the boundaries of ML). On the other hand, my soft skills are e.g. leadership, project planning, presentation, teaching/guiding, business understanding, and writing project proposals. Due to my vast academic experience, my special skill is research, although I welcome all product and consulting-related projects as well.

Table 1. Tertiary education
t degree course & university
2018–now PhD Computer Science
Universität Innsbruck
2018–now BSc Mathematics
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
2014–2018 PhD Information Systems (Economics), with distinction
Poznań University of Economics and Business
[PhD thesis is here]
2013–2014 MScEng Computing, with distinction
Poznań University of Technology
2009–2013 BEng Information Engineering
Poznań University of Technology

2. Professional Experience

Yellowshift. Oct 2022–now, position: AI Tech lead / Polish branch CEO and co-founder. Responsibilities: Providing state-of-the-art AI solutions to our clients. Building Warsaw company branch from scratch and managing it on strategic and operational level.

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MIMUW, University of Warsaw. Oct2022–now, position: Academic Teacherr. Responsibilities: Teaching Deep Learning to Computer Science and Machine Learning students.

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Department of Computer Science, Universität Innsbruck. Oct 2020–now, position: Researcher. Responsibilities: Conducting scientific research on leveraging knowledge graphs for computer vision applications (e.g. knowledge graphs embeddings for few-shot image classification) in an Austrian-Bavarian KI-net project. Preparing thesis on artificial intelligence with imperfect data (supervisors: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Anna Fensel, Prof. Dr. Justus Piater, and Dr. hab. Agata Filipowska).

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Department of Information Systems, Poznań University of Economics and Business. Sep 2011–Sep 2020, position: Data Scientist, Academic Teacher. Responsibilities: carrying out research, mostly connected to data science and machine learning (in domains such as art markets, telecommunications, and maritime surveillance), software development (Python, R, Java) for research and commercial purposes as well, planning scientific projects and writing proposals, maintaining the department's infrastructure (physical/virtual servers and clusters, networking), teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students (courses on machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data, software architecture, cryptography).

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NSense (now F-Secure), Poznań. August 2011–September 2011, position: Software Developer (intern). Responsibilities: Development of a vulnerability scanner in C#.

$$e^{i\pi }+1=0$$ Verax Systems, Poznań. March 2010–July 2010, position: Junior Linux Administrator (intern). Responsibilities: Researching and enrolling technologies related to LDAP protocol in the existing systems architecture (CentOS authentication, SMB, Radius, Postfix et cetera).

3. Skills, Awards, and Certificates

Technical Skills. Machine learning, statistical analysis, image processing, data crawling and wrangling, software development (Python, Java, R), software architecture (UML, design patterns), linux, big data (Apache Spark), databases (SQL, NoSQL, SPARQL).

Languages. Polish (native), English (fluent – C1, CAE certificate).

Table 2. Awards and certificates
t award description
2023 PhD Thesis Award 2nd best PhD Theis in Information Systems (Wirtschaftsinformatik) in 2022 in Poland [proof]
2018 Best Paper Award 4th Workshop on Semantic Deep Learning (SemDeep-4) collocated with the 17th International Semantic Web Conference, for the paper Semantic Image-Based Profiling of Users' Interests with Neural Networks
2018 Best Paper Award The 8th International Tech-Science Conference NATCON "Naval Technologies for Defence and Security", for the paper Big Data for Anomaly Detection in Maritime Surveillance: Spatial AIS Data Analysis for Tankers (waiting for publication)
2017 Research Grant Microsoft Azure for Data Science Research Grant, for the project Data Science for Improving the Quality of Art Market Data
2016 Best Paper Award 19th BIS Conference in Leipzig, Germany, for the paper Quantitative Analysis of Art Market Using Ontologies, Named Entity Recognition and Machine Learning: A Case Study (see Section 4)
2014 Certificate CAE Certificate in Advanced English (CEFR C1)

4. Research & Teaching Experience

Scientific projects. This section will be extended someday...

  1. KI-Net
  2. SIMMO2
  3. HANSA
  4. SIMMO
  5. DSN
  6. LOD 2
  7. SMC

Teaching duties. Abbreviations: MIMUW: Faculty of Informatiks, Mathematics, and Mechanics at University of Warsaw, IiE: Informatyka i Ekonometria (Computer Science & Econometrics), ODO: Ochrona Danych Osobowych i Bezpieczeństwo Teleinformatyczne w Biznesie (Data Protection and Cybersecurity in Business), DaSBA: Data Science in Business and Administration (doktorat wdrożeniowy)


Table 4.1. 2023/2024, 30h in total (planned)
name type group
Deep Learning (1x30h) Lab. MIMUW (BSc & MSc)


Table 4.2. 2022/2023, 30h in total
name type group
Deep Learning (1x30h) Lab. MIMUW (BSc & MSc)

Table 4.3. 2019/2020 (so far + planned)
name type group
Algorytmy i struktury danych (Algorithms and Data Structures, 5x15h + 23h extramural) Lab., Lct. IiE (BSc)
Artificial Intelligence (in English, 30 hours) Lct. IiE (BSc)
Bazy danych (Database Systems, 5h out of 10h, in cooperation with dr Agata Filipowska and dr Krzysztof Węcel) Lab. DaSBA (PhD)
Big Data (3x30h + 18h extramural) Lab. IiE (MSc)
Jakość oprogramowania (Software Quality, 30h) Lab. IiE (BSc)
Sieci neuronowe (Neural Networks, 10h) Lct. DaSBA (PhD)


Table 4.4. 2018/2019, 230h in total
name type group
Artificial Intelligence (in English, 30 hours) Lct. IiE (BSc)
Projektowanie i architektura systemów komponentowych (Design and Architecture of Component Systems, 30h) Lct. IiE (MSc)
Big Data (4x30h + 18h extramural) Lab. IiE (MSc)
Jakość oprogramowania (Software Quality, 30h) Lab. IiE (BSc)
Kryptografia (Cryptography, 8h) Lct. ODO (postgrad.)
Pozyskiwanie danych (Database Systems, 2h out of 8h, in cooperation with dr Agata Filipowska) Lct. DaSBA (PhD)
Infrastruktura rozwiązań Big Data (Big Data Solutions, 5h out of 10h, in cooperation with dr Agata Filipowska) Lct. DaSBA (PhD)
Metodyka pisania artykułów naukowych (Scientfic writing, 2h out of 8h, in cooperation with dr Agata Filipowska) Lct. DaSBA (PhD)
Metody analizy danych ilościowych (Data Analysis Methods, 6h out of 16h, in cooperation with dr Agata Filipowska) Lct. DaSBA (PhD)
Analiza grafów (Graph analysis, 4h out of 10h, in cooperation with dr Agata Filipowska) Lct. DaSBA (PhD)
Bazy danych (Database Systems, 3h out of 12h, in cooperation with dr Agata Filipowska and dr Krzysztof Węcel) Lct. DaSBA (PhD)

Table 4.5. 2017/2018, 145h in total
name type group
Projektowanie systemów informatycznych (Information Systems Architecure, 4x30h) Lab. IiE (BSc)
Kryptografia (Cryptography, 2x8h) Lct. ODO (postgrad.)
Pozyskiwanie danych (Database Systems, 4h out of 8h, in cooperation with dr Agata Filipowska) Lct. DaSBA (PhD)
Infrastruktura rozwiązań Big Data (Big Data Solutions, 5h out of 10h, in cooperation with dr Agata Filipowska) Lct. DaSBA (PhD)


Table 4.6. 2016/2017, 68h total (+54h for summer schools)
name type group
Projektowanie systemów informatycznych (Information Systems Architecure, 2x30h) Lab. IiE (BSc)
Kryptografia (Cryptography, 2x8h) Lct. ODO (postgrad.)
Data Science/Big Data training (intensive 2-week course for academic staff from Narxoz University, Kazakhstan, topics: data processing, enrichment techniques, big data, machine learning, 40h out of 80h, in cooperation with dr Agata Filipowska) Lab. other
Summer School on Big Data Analytics (summer school for Kazakh PhD students, 14h out of 56h, in cooperation with dr Agata Filipowska, dr Krzysztof Węcel, and dr Bartosz Perkowski) Lab. PhD


Table 4.7. 2015/2016, 60h in total
name type group
Projektowanie systemów informatycznych (Information Systems Architecure, 2x30h) Lab. IiE (BSc)


Table 4.8. 2015/2016, 60h in total
name type group
Projektowanie systemów informatycznych (Information Systems Architecure, 2x30h) Lab. IiE (BSc)

5. Media Appereance

Selected, mostly in Polish.
  1. CEO.com.pl - Sztuczna Inteligencja dla Sztuki
  2. Życie UAM - Debata Akademicka o Sztucznej Inteligencji

6. Bibliography

Please see references at my Google Scholar profile profile.

7. References

  1. Yellowshift
  2. MIMUW USOS
  3. Department of Information Systems
  4. LinkedIn
  5. Research Gate
  6. GitHub
  7. Google Scholar
  8. Scopus
  9. ORCID
  10. Web of Science
© 2017, Dominik Filipiak.