Professor Ewa Szczurek
Ewa Szczurek is an associate professor at the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics at the University of Warsaw. She holds two Master degrees in computer science, one from the Uppsala University, Sweden and one from the University of Warsaw, Poland. She finished PhD studies at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, Germany and conducted postdoctoral research at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. She now leads a research group focusing on machine learning, with applications in computational oncology and medicine. Her group works mainly with probabilistic graphical models and deep learning, with a recent focus on generative models, in particular variational autoencoders. Her research applications include oncology, antimicrobial peptide generation, and epidemiology of Covid-19.