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Basics

Name Jan Franciszek Piotrowski
Label Machine Learning Researcher
Email janfpiotrowski (at) gmail (ԁot) com
Url https://jfpio.github.io/
Summary Early-career ML researcher focused on AI Safety and trustworthy language systems. I’ve worked on contrastive learning, counter-speech, and RL for LLM debate. Long-term, I aim to contribute to EU AI policy and standards.

Work

  • 2025.07 - 2025.08

    Warsaw, PL

    Machine Learning Research Engineer (Short-term)
    Wisent
    Built a reproducible LLM steering experimentation pipeline; validated/extended steering implementations; introduced CI and tests; released steering-augmented models.
    • Set up HPO and evaluation harness with W&B logging; syntax-level fixes did not translate into reasoning gains.
    • Stabilized iteration via CI and unit tests.
    • Released two steering-augmented models on Hugging Face; documented evaluation protocol.
    • Selected contributions: closed PRs by jfpio — https://github.com/wisent-ai/wisent-guard/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+author%3Ajfpio
  • 2025.01 - 2025.06

    Warsaw, PL

    Machine Learning Researcher
    University of Warsaw
    Research on RL for multi-agent LLM debate and on predicting narcissism from user-generated text (with Faculty of Psychology).
    • Reinforcement Learning for Improving LLM Debate Protocols — building on ‘Training Language Models to Win Debates with Self-Play Improves Judge Accuracy’. Managed LLaMA-family runs on HPC via Singularity; designed synthetic environments and proxy tasks; co-implemented novel RL algorithms and datasets.
    • Predicting Narcissism from User-Generated Texts — BERT-based regression and few-shot prompting with SOTA LLMs; transformer models showed promise but data scarcity limited generalization.
  • 2022.01 - 2024.12

    Warsaw, PL

    Machine Learning Engineer
    MIM Solutions
    End-to-end ML/NLP work across research and production: dual-encoder contrastive learning, counter-speech generation, vision clustering, disinformation analysis.
    • Contrastive Learning for Linking Twitter Posts to News (ERC-funded) — BERT-based dual encoders; experimental design, literature review, development, analysis; collaboration with UW students; preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07599
    • Automated Counter-Speech to Mitigate Hate Speech — supported student-led project; added engagement metric, expanded literature review and ethics; paper accepted at EMNLP Findings 2024; preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.16905
    • Photo Clustering for advertising client (project value: 25,000 EUR) — embeddings + GroundingDINO + GPT-4; accuracy 99.5% (up from 95%); received positive LinkedIn feedback.
    • Disinformation Analysis System for NASK — co-designed ML system; presented at Warsaw Computer Science Days 2024 (rating 4.8/5).
    • Public writing on AI & platform governance — Klub Jagielloński article: https://klubjagiellonski.pl/2025/04/23/stanislaw-lem-przewidzial-patologie-x-a-czy-da-sie-uratowac-platforme-elona-muska/
    • Ops & infra — trained/evaluated/fine-tuned deep models on GPU clusters; Hydra for configs, Optuna for HPO, Neptune for tracking.

Volunteer

  • 2017.01 - Present
    Scout Leader, Board Member
    Polish Scouting Association (ZHR) — Mazovian Region
    Oversight and QA of summer/winter camps for 2,000+ youth annually; leadership development and community growth.
    • Managed camps of 120 participants (ages 11–20), logistics, safety, ~€25k budget; mentored team leaders.
    • Led local scout community 4 years; grew from 8 to 10 units, coordinated activities for ~250 members; reduced leader turnover by 50% via new programs and mentorship (~30 leaders).
    • Organized public discussions on youth/societal issues with Polish think tanks; video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XiXUfiU5Ms

Education

  • 2022 - Present
    Postgraduate (Interrupted)
    Sorbonne Université, France
    Project Management
  • 2022 - 2024
    M.Sc.
    University of Warsaw, Poland
    Machine Learning
    • Deep Learning
    • Natural Language Processing
    • Computational Social Choice
    • ML in Big Scale
    • Explainable ML
  • 2018 - 2022
    B.Sc.
    Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
    Computer Science

Publications

Skills

Machine Learning & NLP
LLMs
Reinforcement Learning
Mechanistic Interpretability
Scalable Oversight
Contrastive Learning
Embeddings
BERT / LLaMA
Hugging Face
Evaluation & Benchmarks
Engineering & MLOps
PyTorch
Hydra
Optuna
Weights & Biases
Neptune
CI/CD
Unit Testing
Singularity
GPU Clusters

Languages

Polish
Native
English
C1

Interests

AI Safety
Mechanistic interpretability
Scalable oversight