Professor Tomasz Kajdanowicz graduated with MSc and Ph.D. with honors, both from Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland, in 2008 and 2012, respectively. His Ph.D. was given The Best Polish Ph.D. Dissertation Award in 2012/2013, European Association for Artificial Intelligence – Polish Chapter, 2014. Recently, he serves as an associate professor of Wroclaw University of Science and Technology at the Faculty of Computer Science, Poland. He leads the Department of Artificial Intelligence. He was a co-chair and a member of the organizing committee of multiple workshops and summer schools on Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Big Data. He regularly serves as a member of international program committees and a reviewer for prestigious international journals and scientific conferences in the area of Social Networks, Machine Learning, PrallelComputing, Data and Knowledge Management, Big Data, IntelligentSystems. He has authored over 100 research articles in a variety of areas related to Ensemble Classification, Collective Classification, MachineLearning, Social Network Analysis, Collaborative Systems, Data Mining, Recommender Systems, Representation Learning, and Big Data. He also initialized and led 10 research projects in cooperation with commercial companies, including large international corporations. Tomasz holds ITIL v3Foundation Certificate and multiple professional certificates from project management and data science.

He conducted research at Stanford University, USA, University of Sydney, Australia University of Notre Dame, USA and Technical University of Dortmund. His research interests include social network and media analysis, machine learning and representation learning.