Szymon Talaga
Research Scientist at University of Warsaw
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolSzymon Talaga is a research scientist at the University of Warsaw with 11 years of experience applying computational methods to social science problems, from network science and sociology to economics and communication studies. He designs and implements NLP systems—fine-tuning transformer models, building prompting pipelines for LLMs, and combining linguistically grounded statistical methods—with a strong track record of publishing and open-source tooling. Szymon pairs this methodological depth with practical engineering: scalable data collection and web scraping, memory- and compute-constrained processing, and software in Python, Julia and R. He has led funded projects (including an NCN grant and ERC NEWSUSE work) and built open-source packages for automated narrative analysis within EU research consortia. Colleagues describe him as equally comfortable in rigorous theoretical work on network structure and in shipping production-ready data science tools that deliver research-grade visualizations and reproducible analyses.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Psychologia, B+ (MA Thesis: A), Master’s Degree, Psychologia, B+ (MA Thesis: A) at Uniwersytet WarszawskiMaster of Science (MSc), Urban Studies, Master of Science (MSc), Urban Studies at University of Amsterdam
Polish, English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (146)
network-graph10
python10
arabic-nlp10
entity-linking10
visual-studio10
fairness-ml10
cython10
editor10
data-preprocessing10
neural10
ai10
corenlp10
nlp10
julia10
nlp-machine-learning10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sztal/pathcensus
Mar 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 4 commits, 29 pushes in 7 months
sztal/narcy
Dec 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:17 commits, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
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