CV
Education
2023 - present - Computer Science (PhD Student) - University of Wrocław
2021 - present - Data Science (Master Student) - University of Wrocław
2021 - 2023 - Mathematics (Master) - University of Wrocław
2017 - 2020 - Mathematics (Bachelor) - University of Wrocław
2013 - 2020 - Saxophone (1st level), Singing (2nd level) - F. Chopin State Music School in Opole, Poland
Experience
10.2024-present - Assistant (asystentka badawczo-dydaktyczna), University of Wrocław
03 - 10.2022, 10.2023 - 06.2024 - Research Student Participant in an OPUS-18 project Learning Latent Data Structure from Observations founded by the National Science Center, University of Wrocław
07.2020 - 01.2022 - Junior Data Scientist at QuantUp
2017 - present - Tutor in Mathematics (from primary school to university level)
Research papers
Orcid ID: 0009-0001-4176-087X
Piotr Lipinski and Klaudia Balcer. 2024. Explaining Session-based Recommendations using Grammatical Evolution. In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion (GECCO '24 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1590–1597. https://doi.org/10.1145/3638530.3664156
Balcer, K., Lipinski, P. (2024). Extending DenseHMM with Continuous Emission. In: Luo, B., Cheng, L., Wu, ZG., Li, H., Li, C. (eds) Neural Information Processing. ICONIP 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14452. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8076-5_17
Skills
Machine & Deep Learning
Mathematics
Statistics
Data Analysis, Data Science
Stochastic Modelling
Programming (Python)
Teaching
Recommender Systems
Simulations & Monte Carlo Methods
Excellent Communication and Time Management
Grants
Grant for young researchers Młody Badacz nr BPIDUB.4610.187.2023 for the participation at ICONIP 2023 conference
Travel grant for the MLinPL 2023 conference in Warsaw awarded by G-Research
Invitation to Synapse AI Symposium 2023 in Milan and a grant covering travel and participation costs awarded by Bending Spoons
Talks & posters
Balcer, K., Lipinski, P., Extending DenseHMM with Continuous Emission, The 30th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, 2023 (talk).
Balcer, K., Co-occurrence-based learning. How much information do we lose while using approximate probabilities of discrete values?, MLinPL, 2023 (poster).
Balcer, K., Can we explain what is hidden? SSM in XAI, Big data analytical methods for complex systems (CASUS-UWr), 2022 (talk).
Balcer, K., Lipinski, P., Rychlikowski, P., Gaussian Dense Hidden Markov Model, Big data analytical methods for complex systems (CASUS-UWr), 2022 (poster).
Other Activities
Participant at OxML 2024 Health & Bio (Summer School)
Presentations at the open days of the Institute of Mathematics and the Institute of Computer Science
Organizational work for Computational Intelligence Research Group (CIRG)