Piotr Skowron is an assistant professor at the

University of Warsaw The University of Warsaw ( pl, Uniwersytet Warszawski, la, Universitas Varsoviensis) is a public university in Warsaw, Poland. Established in 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country offering 37 different fields of ...

. He is known for his research in

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(AI) and

theoretical computer science Theoretical computer science (TCS) is a subset of general computer science and mathematics that focuses on mathematical aspects of computer science such as the theory of computation, lambda calculus, and type theory. It is difficult to circumsc ...

, especially for his work on social choice, and committee elections.

Biography

Piotr Skowron received his Ph.D. in computer science from the

in 2015. His doctoral dissertation won the runner-up for IFAAMAS Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award for the best dissertation in the area of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. Subsequently, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the

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(2016), and at the

Technical University of Berlin The Technical University of Berlin (official name both in English and german: link=no, Technische Universität Berlin, also known as TU Berlin and Berlin Institute of Technology) is a public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was ...

(2017), where he was supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In 2018, he joined the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics at

as a faculty member.

Research and awards

In 2022, Piotr Skowron won the

IJCAI Computers and Thought Award The IJCAI Computers and Thought Award is presented every two years by the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), recognizing outstanding young scientists in artificial intelligence. It was originally funded with royalt ...

, given yearly since 1971 to an outstanding AI researcher under the age of 35, for "his contributions to computational social choice, and to the theory of committee elections".IJCAI 2020 Award Winners
retrieved on February 23, 2022.

References

External links

Home page
at the University of Warsaw.
Citations
on Google Scholar. {{DEFAULTSORT:Skowron, Piotr Living people 1985 births