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!

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!