Wojciech Kusa
Assistant Professor at NASK
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolWojciech Kusa is an Assistant Professor and NLP/ML engineer with 11 years of experience building and researching (deep) neural approaches to language understanding, information extraction and exploratory data analysis. He blends a rare interdisciplinary background in computer science, linguistics and cognitive psychology with practical experience across industry and academia, including a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship at TU Wien and visiting research positions at multiple international universities. Currently leading the NLP department at NASK, he focuses on biomedical NLP and multilingual NLU, translating cutting-edge research into deployable solutions. He has strong teaching and public-speaking credentials and a track record in project management from academic and student-organisation work. Beyond research, he’s applied NLP in commercial settings (Samsung, Allegro, Square One) and brings hands-on engineering experience from earlier software roles. An avid sailor who circumnavigated parts of Europe on a 36ft yacht, he combines analytical rigor with adventurous problem-solving.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of TechnologyPostgraduate Degree Researcher Professional Development, Postgraduate Degree Researcher Professional Development at University of StrathclydeMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Applied Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Applied Computer Science at AGH University of KrakowMaster of Arts - MA General Linguistics, Master of Arts - MA General Linguistics at Jagiellonian University
English, Polish
Github Skills (82)
commitizen10
datasets10
speech10
conventional-commits10
alarm10
computer-vision10
nlp10
multiclass-classification10
clock10
evaluation10
medicine10
biomedical10
semantic-versioning10
pandas9
robotics9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ProjectDossier/patient-trial-matching
Jul 2023 - Dec 2024
[JBI] Effective Matching of Patients to Clinical Trials using Entity Extraction and Neural Re-ranking
Contributions:4 reviews, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 4 months
clinical-trialsclinical-trials-retrievalinformation-retrievalpatient-to-trial-matchingtrec
ProjectDossier/cruise-screening
Feb 2023 - Jan 2025
[CIKM 2023] CRUISE search engine for conducting literature reviews
Contributions:1 release, 7 reviews, 25 PRs in 1 year 11 months
citation-screeningexploratory-searchliterature-reviewsystematic-reviews
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