ELLIS Unit Warsaw welcomes Prof. Szymon Łukasik and Dr. Wojciech Kusa
ELLIS Unit Warsaw is pleased to welcome two new members: Prof. Szymon Łukasik and Dr. Wojciech Kusa, both affiliated with NASK – National Research Institute. Their expertise in AI safety, trustworthy machine learning, and language technologies will strengthen our research community and create new opportunities for collaboration.
Prof. Szymon Łukasik is the Director of the AI Safety Research Center at NASK – National Research Institute and an Associate Professor at AGH University of Krakow. His research spans AI safety and trustworthy AI, computational intelligence, machine learning, nature-inspired optimization, deep neural networks, and multimodal data analysis. At NASK, he leads research on safe, explainable, and trustworthy AI, including the evaluation and security of generative AI and large language models, as well as deepfake detection.
His international research experience includes appointments at the Australian National University, UNINOVA, UC Berkeley, and the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also associated with the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences and has worked as a data scientist at Synerise. He has served as an expert for the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme and the Polish National Centre for Research and Development.
Dr. Wojciech Kusa is an Assistant Professor at NASK – National Research Institute, where he leads the NLP Department. His research focuses on safe and trustworthy language technologies, with a current emphasis on PLLuM, an open Polish large language model. His interests include LLM safety and evaluation, domain-specific applications of information retrieval, and natural language processing for low-resource languages.
He earned his PhD from TU Wien, where he developed automated approaches to systematic literature reviews. During his doctoral studies, he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow in the Horizon 2020 project DoSSIER. He has published at leading international conferences, including SIGIR, NeurIPS, ACL, ECIR, CIKM, and EACL.
