J¿drzej Osi¿ski, PhD, earned his PhD in Artificial Intelligence and has a strong research background in computer science. He has published 14 scientific papers to date as well being the co-author of two books. During his academic career he was working in government grants and lecturing about software testing and products, AI applications and IT business start-ups. He has participated in a number of different conferences as a speaker, papers reviewer and organizer. His scientific interests are mostly focused on spatio-temporal modelling and reasoning, knowledge representation, natural language processing, qualitative calculus and fuzzy sets. Dr Osi¿ski has over ten years of experience working in IT companies of different sizes, domains (web, telecom, banking, e-learning), organization structures and locations (Poland, Ireland, UK). Currently he combines the roles of certified senior QA engineer, line manager and business analyst to support software projects for some of world's best-known brands. He is also involved in various initiatives promoting AI, science and modern technologies e.g. blog posts, science days, invited talks, as well as radio and TV appearances.
