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GHOST Day Challenge 2022

If you are a student and a participant of GHOST Day: AMLC 2022, and you can boast of a super project on machine learning – we have a contest just for you!

The subject of the contest is to find the best scientific project on machine learning realized by a student. Contestants should prepare a 5-minute presentation of the project, which they will deliver to the Contest Committee during the conference.

The committee will evaluate: the level of the machine learning techniques used in the project, project innovativeness, the correctness of the obtained results and the importance of the project for society and/or business.

Application deadline: 21.03.2022

Apply here!

GHOST success on BHL AI Hackathon

We are very proud to announce the success of GHOST members during BEST Hacking League AI Hackathon!

This year’s task was to train and explain a model classifying different activities (sitting, standing, walking etc.) using data from a mobile phone’s accelerometer and gyroscope.

“GHOST” team consisting of Adam Gorgoń, Jacek Karolczak, Aleksandra Świerkowska and Zuzanna Trafas won 1st place and “GHOST Busters” team consisting of Joachim Mąkowski, Bogumiła Walkowiak and Marcin Wiktorowski secured 4th place (among 20 teams from all over Poland!). 

Congratulations to both teams!

Grant for a Tiny Machine Learning project

We are very proud to announce that a GHOST member, Aleksandra Świerkowska, received a grant for the project titled “Speech and Image Recognition on Architecture with Limited Resources”. The project will be implemented within the TinyML section during the upcoming semester. 

Scholarship of the Minister of Education and Science

We are pleased that a member of GHOST scientific circle, Damian Horna, was awarded a scholarship of the Minister of Education and Science. This is one of the most prestigious student awards in Poland and Damian is the only person from the Poznań University of Technology, who was awarded. Damian received a scholarship for his scientific achievements in the field of machine learning in sports analytics, he also got a few additional points for work related to anomaly detection in time series. Congratulations to Damian!

GHOST @ MLinPL 2020

We are pleased to announce that Adam Wojechowski’s poster entitled “Adversarial OverSampling for imbalanced image data classification” won 2nd place in the competition for the best poster during MLinPL Virtual Meeting 2020 conference!

Another success of GHOST members!

We are very happy to announce yet another success of GHOST members – this time Damian Horna, Max Adamski, Kamil Piechowiak and Maciej A. Czyżewski won in the “Digital Tax” category during HackYeah 2020! Their solution helps Polish Ministry of Finance digitize taxes – it automates the process of entering data from a paper version of the tax return.

Congratulations on your well-deserved success!

Successes of Kaggle Group!

We are pleased to announce a series of successes of our members. GANżolina Jolie team: Damian Horna, Maciej A. Czyżewski, Max Adamski won third place in Hackathon by Asseco competition and proved to be a financial superhero by using the artificial intelligence to find the best offer for financial customers. Then they created an application for predicting dust storms on Mars and won 2nd place in the Spacehack Hackaton competition!

A week later, the team consisting of Bogumiła Walkowiak, Joachim Mąkowski, Zuza Trafas, Hania Klimczak, Kamil Pluciński won second place in the skyhacks competition. They created a web application for multi-label classification of photos and audio recordings.

Congratulations to both teams and wish you the best of luck!

GHOST Day: AMLC 2020

Three weeks ago, we finished the second edition of GHOST Day: Applied Machine Learning Conference and it’s time for a little summary. Probably the largest Polish AI published by the OPI National Research Institute in Warsaw, entitled the article about our conference “World-class AI in Poznań” and we think that this is a very accurate description of the conference program we constructed. The list of speakers from all around the world (USA, UK, France, Australia, Switzerland) from top R&D institutions such as Facebook AI, DeepMind, IBM Research, Google or New York University resulted in high satisfaction of the participants. The NPS satisfaction index of conference was 70 (a value above 50 should be considered as “excellent”). In addition, 100% of surveyed participants want to visit us again at a potential future edition next year. The organization of the conference was rated at 4.95 on a 5-point scale, and there were no major technical problems during the conference.

The conference was granted the honorary patronage of the Ministry of Economic Development, the Mayor of Poznań and the Polish Association of Artificial Intelligence. In addition, 13 ML organizations from all over Poland agreed to be a partner of the event, which allowed to reach the assumed number of participants, and the last tickets were distributed through selective registration. Ultimately, 389 participants attended the conference.

Apart from the organization, GHOST memebers also presented at the conference their incredible projects! Zuzanna Trafas gave a presentation on the methods of explainable artificial intelligence, which is one of the priorities of AI development according to EU. An extremely interesting presentation was given by Max Adamski on the use of Bayesian methods in the analysis of energy data, and Piotr Wyrwiński presented machine learning methods for detecting malware. The student session was very popular – over 100 people watched the presentations! Moreover, Adam Wojciechowski presented a poster about a new method of imbalanced image classification. Congratulations to all of you!

Successes of Kaggle Group

Our Kagglers achieved very high results in Kaggle competitions:

• Szymon Janowski and Bartosz Mikulski were among the top 11% of 5500 teams from the entire world in M5 Forecasting – Accuracy.
• Maciej A. Czyżewski reached the top 6% in Tweet Sentiment Extraction competition where outperformed over 2000 teams.

Congratulations on great results and we wish you more successes!