Biography

Piotr Szymański is an assistant Professor at the Department of Computational Intelligence at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology and a Machine Learning Engineer at Avaya. Professionally involved in data analysis, statistical reasoning, geospatial data science, natural language processing, machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques. He is an alumni of the Top 500 Innovators program at Stanford University, worked in several institutions over the years incl. Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Josef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, University of Notre Dame and University of Technology Sydney. He is the author of scikit-multilearn, a popular python library for multi-label classification. Apart from multi-label classification, Piotr published papers concerning urban data, traffic analysis and bridging the gap between ASR and NLP in spoken language understanding systems. In his free time he is an urban activist in Wrocław and a member of a city district council.