CV

Curriculum vitae.

Contact Information

Name Tymoteusz Kwieciński
Email tkwiecinski@ethz.ch

Experience

  • 2026 → present Zürich, Switzerland
    Research Assistant · ETH AI Center
    • Supervised by Anna Hedström and Imanol Schlag.
    • Interpretability and AI safety research on how the safety properties of frontier LLMs change under model adaptation (manuscript in preparation).
    • Detected hallucinations in Apertus-8B with activation probes, written up at Apertus Claritas.
  • 2026 → present Warsaw, Poland
    Research Intern · Research Institute IDEAS
    • Safety and alignment of text-to-image diffusion models, supervised by Bartłomiej Twardowski.
    • Studying how text-to-image models generalize under weight adaptation and activation steering (manuscript in preparation).
  • 2023 → 2025 Warsaw, Poland
    Research Software Engineer · MI²AI (Prof. Przemysław Biecek's group)
    • Built and administered a bare-metal Kubernetes cluster (4 nodes, GPU acceleration) managed with GitOps; deployed research demos including the ChestChecker app for lung-cancer analysis.
    • Led development of two open-source libraries: meteors for hyperspectral XAI (with ESA, ~8k downloads) and SerolyzeR (~5k downloads).
  • 2023 Warsaw, Poland
    Data Analyst · Polish Reading Research Institute
    • Data visualization and large-scale survey-data processing for readership insights.
  • 2022 Toruń, Poland
    Data Analysis Intern · ONDE S.A.
    • Optimized operation of a PV-farm energy-storage system to increase profit from energy trading.

Education

  • 2025 → present Zürich, Switzerland
    ETH Zürich · M.Sc. in Computer Science (Machine Intelligence major)
    • Focused on understanding frontier machine-learning research, working on computer vision and language models.
    • Coursework: algorithms, high-performance computing, big-data systems, and probabilistic methods.
  • 2021 → 2025 Warsaw, Poland
    Warsaw University of Technology · B.Sc. in Data Science
    • GPA 4.87/5, summa cum laude. Award-winning thesis (SerolyzeR): Distinction in the V National Competition for the Best CS Thesis.
    • Vice-President of the Mathematical Science Club (2 years); Rector’s Scholarship (4×); Individual Study Plan for top students.

Publications

Honors and Awards

Skills

Languages: Python, C++, R
ML & tools: PyTorch, explainable AI, Kubernetes, GitOps

Languages

English : C2 (CAE Grade A)
Polish : Native
Italian : A2
Spanish : A2
German : A1