I am a Lecturer in Computational Intelligence in the School of Design, Engineering and Computing at Bournemouth University, UK. I am also (and currently foremost) an Experienced Researcher within the EU-funded INFER project, led by the BU's Smart Technology Research Centre. My research interests lie in a broadly understood field of machine learning, data mining, predictive modelling and computational intelligence, with a particular focus on practical applications. Recently I have also developed an interest in the area of complex, evolving networked systems, which appear as a very attractive and relatively little explored practical application for advanced predictive models. I have received a PhD in Computational Intelligence from Bournemouth University in 2010, where after a quite challenging viva voce I have been awarded the title without amendments to the thesis. I also hold a combined Bachelors and Masters degree (BA+MA) in finance and banking awarded by the Katowice University of Economics, Poland in 2003. During my 5 years at the University I have been receiving scholarship for excellent academic results and I was on the 2nd place in the competition for the best graduate student. In 2005 I have graduated from the University of Silesia, Poland (BSc, hons), where I have been conducting research in the area of smart multi-agent systems and especially ant colony optimization and data structure discovery. During my 3 years at the University I have been receiving scholarship for excellent academic results. |