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Class of 2026

Our fellows.

Meet the participants of the first Bison Fellowship cohort. For 8 weeks, each of them works with a mentor on a project in AI, ML or physics — with real-world application at our partners.

Martyna Baran
Fellow · 2026

Martyna Baran

An AI engineer with four years of commercial experience delivering LLM, RAG and ML systems in regulated fintech and health-tech environments. A student of Artificial Intelligence and Data Analysis at AGH University in Kraków, she currently works as a Data & AI Engineer at Unit8 SA. Co-author of DiagNeuro — a mixed-reality platform for the early diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases, achieving 90% accuracy in detecting Parkinson's disease. She also leads CardioVoice — a mobile app that diagnoses early symptoms of ischemic heart disease from the voice. Co-author of research papers nominated at, among others, the International Vocal Biomarkers Conference in Luxembourg and the International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders. A member of the European research network eVoiceNet (EU COST Action), which aims to develop and deploy voice biomarkers in medical diagnostics.

Jan Gustaw Barganowski
Fellow · 2026

Jan Gustaw Barganowski

A Data Science student at Columbia University (USA). A graduate of Management & Artificial Intelligence at Kozminski University, where he served as president of the Kozminski AI Club, organizing conferences with speakers from Samsung R&D and Microsoft. Co-author of two scientific publications in psychiatry. He volunteers as a mentor at Our Future Foundation, helping talented high-school students fulfil their dreams of studying at the world's best universities. Beyond his academic work, Jan is an electronic music producer with performances at ING Silesia Beats and Boiler Rush, and over a million streams on Spotify.

Magdalena Iwańska
Fellow · 2026

Magdalena Iwańska

An International Baccalaureate student at the E. Dembowski Bilingual High School No. 1 in Gliwice. An intern at Adamed Pharma in the business-process automation team, where she implements RPA and Low-Code solutions. She is developing a GNN neural network for detecting microplastics in water, and previously built LSTM models to support Parkinson's disease detection and an audio navigator for the visually impaired. Winner of the 11th edition of the Adamed SmartUP program in AI, winner of the Girls It's Time for Tech hackathon, and a second-degree laureate of the Silesian University of Technology's Golden Index olympiad in computer science.

Adam Kasprzak
Fellow · 2026

Adam Kasprzak

A graduate of the Warsaw University of Technology in cybersecurity and of Dulwich College in London. He has experience as a cybersecurity consultant specializing in post-quantum cryptography at IBM in Zürich. Co-creator of Perun, Poland's first peer-to-peer energy-trading platform, which secured a grant from KPT ScaleUp Booster. A graduate and tutor of the National Children's Fund. Passionate about economics, cryptography, sailing and water sports. He has never drunk coffee.

Maciej Klepacki
Fellow · 2026

Maciej Klepacki

A double-degree student at AGH University — computer science and management. Founder of Amathi (amathi.pl), a production math-learning platform powered by AI, with paying students and a team of collaborating tutors. He single-handedly built four AI modules — including a system that evaluates a student's line of reasoning written on an interactive whiteboard, and a study-planning engine that selects exercises for a specific goal. He is working on a mobile version in which every student follows an individual learning path tailored to their competency gaps — he believes it will change the way students learn mathematics. A first-group AGH Prymusi scholarship holder, he took 2nd place at the 24-hour EESTEC AGH Hacknarök X 2026 hackathon. After hours, a ski instructor.

Mateusz Lickindorf
Fellow · 2026

Mateusz Lickindorf

A medical student (MD, Wrocław Medical University), a biomedical engineer, and an AI student (BEng Biomedical Engineering, MEng Trusted AI Systems, Wrocław University of Science and Technology). CEO and founder of Oncosort, a platform tracking reimbursement criteria, currently being tested at a hospital in Świdnica. Founder of the first AI-in-Medicine student society at a Polish medical university. Winner of the Young Talents award (entrepreneurship category), finalist of EIT Jumpstarter (top 6 of 243 companies) and Our Future Founders. A scholarship holder of the Prime Minister of Poland, InPost and Wrocław Medical University. Participant in research visits to TU Berlin and VŠE Prague. A lecturer at Coventry University Wrocław.

Franciszek Łopuszański
Fellow · 2026

Franciszek Łopuszański

An International Baccalaureate graduate of Bilingual High School No. 1 in Gliwice, and from October 2026 a student at AGH University. He won 2nd place at Regeneron ISEF 2025 in Columbus (USA) in the Systems Software category for GateOS — an experimental exokernel written in Rust with domain isolation and static security analysis. Author of the custom Zegarson smartwatch based on the STM32MP1 with embedded Linux, and of RemoteMake, a tool for automating cloud build environments (AWS, Oracle Cloud, Go). Winner of the Explory 2024 grand prize and the Golden Index of the Cracow University of Technology.

Zofia Makowska
Fellow · 2026

Zofia Makowska

A student of the MatEx class at the Stanisław Staszic High School No. 14 in Warsaw and a member of the Fenix Science Club. A gold medalist at the International Conference of Young Scientists 2026 in Delhi and a laureate of the Physics Pathways (Fizyczne Ścieżki) 2026 competition. She captained the winning team of the Young Physicists' Tournament 2025, and then the Polish national team at the International Young Physicists' Tournament 2025 in Lund, where the Polish team won a silver medal. Zofia pursues her own research projects, combining theory with experiment. She is especially drawn to physical systems that, while seemingly simple at first glance, reveal complex and non-obvious relationships on closer analysis. Her popular-science article on the hysteresis of springs will soon appear in the monthly magazine “Delta”.

Szymon Nowak
Fellow · 2026

Szymon Nowak

A computer science student at the University of Warsaw and a distinguished finalist of the Polish Olympiad in Informatics, one of the toughest algorithmic olympiads for secondary-school students in Poland. On his own, without external support, he went from the basics of algorithms to the olympiad finals within a single year. He worked as a Software Developer at Radcode during a summer internship. He built the Quick Extract project and Word Agents, a multilingual web game with multiplayer over a URL.

Krzysztof Romanowski
Fellow · 2026

Krzysztof Romanowski

An AI engineer and researcher specializing in computer vision, autonomous systems and deploying machine learning in real products. At Łukasiewicz PIMOT he worked on the perception of an autonomous research vehicle and supported Poland's first public-road test of an autonomous vehicle. As co-founder and CTO of Devrio, he developed a platform for mobile creation of 3D digital twins using smartphone sensing and computer vision, deployed to production in May 2024. Earlier he founded Litio, an AI system for waste analysis from social data and UAV imagery, whose pilot delivered a 75% improvement in cleanliness at the studied locations. He is currently building Proof Foundry, a virtual team of AI/R&D agents that helps companies design, research and deploy AI products without having to build their own machine-learning team from scratch. A Perplexity AI Business Fellow 2025 and a laureate of the E4S competition organized by the 4 Science Institute and IEEE.

Jakub Rymarski
Fellow · 2026

Jakub Rymarski

He is pursuing three master's degrees in parallel: at the Warsaw University of Technology (individual interdisciplinary research studies), the University of Warsaw (Machine Learning) and SGH Warsaw School of Economics (Big Data). An ML researcher at CERN within the WUT–ALICE collaboration on particle identification. Previously a Data Engineer at PwC and an analyst at Citi Handlowy. He conducts research on Explainable AI and the interpretability of VLM (Vision-Language Models) under a grant from the National Science Centre. A scholarship holder of the Prime Minister of Poland, a laureate of the WUT Mathematical Olympiad, and the winner of an episode of the quiz show “Jeden z dziesięciu” (One in Ten).

Karol Śliwa
Fellow · 2026

Karol Śliwa

A data engineer with experience in the nuclear, energy and banking sectors. A graduate of AGH University, currently completing a master's degree in Energy Policy and Engineering at the KEPCO International Nuclear Graduate School in South Korea (GPA 3.94/4.3). He worked as a Full Stack Developer at Westinghouse Electric Company and as a Global Risk Analytics analyst at HSBC in Kraków. A member of a Technical Cooperation Project Team at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Winner of the Silver Prize in a Korean engineering essay competition and Tech Lead of the engineering section of AGH Nova Energia for three terms.

Mateusz Tarczyński
Fellow · 2026

Mateusz Tarczyński

An International Baccalaureate graduate of the Stefan Batory High School No. 2 in Warsaw, combining passions for mathematics, physics, economics and engineering. He represented Poland internationally, placing 5th at the International Young Physicists' Tournament. Winner of the second-highest distinction, the Meritorious Award, at the International Mathematical Modeling Challenge. Captain of the MIT Engineers Without Borders team and 3rd in Poland in the GAEA accelerator's pitch-deck competition. Author of his own engineering projects, co-organizer of community initiatives, and — in his free time — a musical theatre actor.

Piotr Tyrakowski
Fellow · 2026

Piotr Tyrakowski

A computer science student at the Warsaw University of Technology. Co-founder of AutoYT, an autonomous agent that generates end-to-end video for companies, built on a multi-agent architecture with a self-improving loop. He is also behind FunnelYT, an analytics platform tracking the conversion of YouTube traffic, and HairBuddy, an AI-based mobile app for hair analysis. Co-author of pyradiomics-cuda, a library that accelerates radiomics computation on the GPU by 147×, accepted at the ICCS 2026 conference in Hamburg. A repeat winner and finalist of international hackathons, including ETHGlobal Cannes, AI Tinkerers Poland × DeepMind, and Building Your Own LLM Knowledge Wiki in San Francisco.

Wiktor Zoga
Fellow · 2026

Wiktor Zoga

A double master's student in mathematics and artificial intelligence, and a graduate of Individual Studies in Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Wrocław. A Junior Algorithm Engineer at Huawei Warsaw, where he works on computer vision and deep learning tasks within the computational mathematics team. Previously a C++ Developer at Nokia Wrocław, working on 5G base-station software. A finalist of the 29th Polish Olympiad in Informatics and the 28th AMPPZ. An active member of the UWr Theoretical Mathematicians' Student Society, teaching at olympiad training camps for high-school students.

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