Biography
Jarek Szlichta is an Associate Professor and a Research Enhanced Faculty in responsible data science and AI under the Connected Minds at York University. He is also a Research Faculty Fellow at IBM Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS) and an Adjunct Professor at University of Waterloo. He serves as the co-director of the Data & AI Lab. His research concerns various topics in data science with special interests in data-driven systems, large-scale machine learning, and responsible AI to obtain trustworthy insights from data. He is a recipient of the IBM CAS Faculty of the Year Award for tuning of the IBM Db2 system with machine learning and CeBIT computer expo Business Award for the work on the OCEAN GenRap analytic reporting tool. His research grants are from both government (NSERC, MITACS and SOSCIP) and industry (IBM and AT&T). He earned his PhD from York University, during which he completed a three years fellowship at IBM CAS—receiving the IBM Research Student of the Year Award—and later served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Toronto.

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Favorite Quotes
“You’ll never walk alone.” —Gerry Marsden
“Nothing to fear but fear itself.”—Franklin D. Roosevelt