short biography

I was born in Poland, where I spent my childhood and completed my lycee education at a school specializing in chemistry, which at the time of my attendance provided instruction comparable to the first to years of college. At lycee, I triple-majored in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. With my broad natural sciences background, I moved on my own to the United States in 2015 in the pursuit of the highest quality of education. I joined Case Western Reserve University, where I promptly focused on Materials Engineering and began to conduct research in Prof. Welsch's group within the first two months of enrollment. After my first year, I start to take graduate courses and joined the group of Prof. Willard. In his group, I progressively gravitated from experiments towards theory, modeling, and simulations.

Around January 2017, this led me to taking graduate courses in Artificial Intelligence and specialize in applying Machine Learning to problems in Materials Science. I earned my B.S. degree in May 2019, and moved directly to pursue my Ph.D. in Materials Science at Penn State under supervision of Prof. Zi-Kui Liu. Under his guidance, I have a pleasure to work on implementing a variety of artificial intelligence and other computational techniques, while having the support of colleagues who are specialists in ab-initio modelling, thermodynamic calculations, and materials discovery.

Education

  • Bachelor of Science in Materials Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 2019

Academic Interests

  • Computational Materials Science

  • Machine-Learning and Non-Machine-Learning Artificial Intelligence

  • Teaching and Teaching Methods

  • Parallel Computing

  • Casual Mathematics and Group Theory

  • Formal Logic

  • Low-Level Programming

  • Color Theory (Formal) and Morphological Image Processing

  • Novel Concepts for Space Exploration

  • Additive Manufacturing and Structural Materials

Non-Academic Interests

  • Sailing (both for work and recreational) and Sailing Boat Design

  • Paragliding (Civil Pilot License since 2016)

  • Film Photography

  • Traveling (mostly sailing or with a backpack). Countries visited (in alphabetical order): Albania, Antigua, Aruba, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Egypt, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Monaco, Montenegro, Montserrat, Netherlands, Norway, Isle of Man, Oman, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Saint Lucia, San Marino, Saint Vincent, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Turks and Caicos, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican, Vietnam

  • Skiing (since 3 years old)

  • Coffee Preparation