Education

September 2023 - Presemt: MSc in Advanced Computer Science, University of Oxford
September 2020 - July 2023: BSc Computer Science, University College London
- First Class Honours (4.0 GPA equivalent), Average: 81.79%

Publications

Critique of Computing Planetary Interior Normal Modes with a Highly Parallel Polynomial Filtering Eigensolver by SCC Team from University of Warsaw

M. M. Masiak, I. Kotlarska, U. G. Kondraciuk and M. Szpindler, "Critique of Computing Planetary Interior Normal Modes with a Highly Parallel Polynomial Filtering Eigensolver by SCC Team from University of Warsaw," in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, doi: 10.1109/TPDS.2021.3050997.

MasakhaNEWS: News Topic Classification for African languages

David Ifeoluwa Adelani and Marek Masiak, et al., "MasakhaNEWS: News Topic Classification for African languages" in IJCNLP-AACL 2023 (main conference) and ICLR 2023 (AfricaNLP workshop), doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2304.09972.

AfriMTE and AfriCOMET: Empowering COMET to Embrace Under-resourced African Languages

Jiayi Wang, et al., "AfriMTE and AfriCOMET: Enhancing COMET to Embrace Under-resourced African Languages" in NAACL 2024 (main conference), doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2311.09828.

Awards

Area Chair Award, IJCNLP-AACL
Best Paper Award, ICLR AfricaNLP workshop
First Prize Award, Innovation Award, Asia Student Supercomputer Challenge 20-21

Research experience

February 2024 - March 2024: Visiting Student / Research Intern, University of Cambridge, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
- Researched Inverse Reinforcement Learning, RL, and LLMs in the van der Schaar Lab.
- Implemented a neural system for an Imitation Learning problem.
July 2022 - September 2022: Summer Research Intern, University College London, Department of Computer Science
- Conducted research into commonsense reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models and their implicit knowledge.
- Created a semantic knowledge graph based on knowledge from GPT-3 generated text.
July 2019 – February 2020: Summer Research Intern, Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling UW Warsaw
- Researched computational optimizations for linear algebra algorithms, such as matrix-matrix multiplication
- Implemented an algorithm ∼9 times faster at multiplying 1000x1000 matrix on 8 cores than the classic algorithm
- Technologies in use: C++, MPI (Open MPI), Slurm

Work experience

July 2023 - September 2023: TechOps Engineer Intern, Jump Trading
February 2020 – September 2020: Software Developer, Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling UW
- Designed and developed a web platform using Django and Bootstrap for tracking the consumption of resources and automating computing grants proposal submission
- Designed and developed a web platform for ICH HPC users to regain access to ICM resources after they have lost their accounts
- Technologies in use: Python, Django, jQuery, Bootstrap, nginx

Talks

Evaluation of the level of innovations and its economic implications in the Lubelskie voivodship in Poland

September 13, 2018

Conference talk at Innovative Economy. The Role of Economic Policy 2018, Warsaw, Poland

Warsaw Team, HPC Adventures: WarsawTeam around the world

March 24, 2020

Conference talk at Supercomputing Frontiers Europe 2020, Warsaw, Poland

Teaching

Text generation with n-grams and neural networks

Service and leadership

July 2020 - November 2020: Team Captain, Warsaw Team, Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling UW
- Weekly meetings to prepare for upcoming student cluster competitions
- Member of the team from August 2019 to Present

Marek Masiak