Dr. Przemysław Szufel
Dr Przemysław Szufel is an Assistant Professor in Decision Support and Analysis Unit at Warsaw School of Economics, a member of Computational Methods in Industrial Mathematics Lab in Fields Institute located at University of Toronto. He is also a Management Committee member of the European Social Simulation Association.
Przemysław Szufel main research focus is in applying advanced analytics methods, and in particular, machine learning, simulation and optimization in modelling and automating decision business processes. He is a co-author of several tools and algorithms for optimal and cost efficient collection and analysis of large data sets in the cloud. He is a co-author of over 30 publications, including handbooks and journal papers, in the area of applying advanced analytics, machine learning and simulation methods to making optimal business decisions. He has co-organized several international conferences in the advanced analytics area including European Social Simulation Association 2013 (Warsaw), Group Decision and Negotiation, 2015 (Warsaw) and Blockchain Technology Symposium, 2018 (Toronto) - each conference gathering over 100 researchers from around the globe.
Przemysław Szufel has delivered several advanced analytics and simulation workshops including Canada (University of Toronto, Ryerson University), Ireland (University College Dublin), Sweden (Stockholm University) and Italy (Salerno University). He is also a regular speaker for scientific computing workshops at the Supercomputing Frontiers Europe conference. He also teaches Julia programming and advanced analytics PhD course in the Information Technology Department at Salerno University and he teaches several post graduate and PhD simulation and data science courses at Warsaw School of Economics, Poland.
Przemysław Szufel has also a broad industry experience. He as delivered training and workshops to several companies in Europe including banking, finance, insurance, telecoms utility providers Top-10 management consulting companies.
He has also been working as an auditor for venture capital companies - he specializes in assessing technology of data-oriented startups. Dr Przemyław Szufel has been also co-managing SilverDecisions.pl project (that aims for representing and supporting business decisions and was part of a larger grant financed by the H2020 European Union grant), which has been elected by the European Commission to the Innovation Radar programme grouping the best European innovations financed by the EU funds.