Marcin Budka received his dual MSc/BSc degree in Finance and Banking from the Katowice University of Economics (Poland, 2003), BSc in Computer Science from the University of Silesia (Poland, 2005) and PhD in Computational Intelligence from Bournemouth University (UK, 2010). Between 2003 and 2007 he was working as an engineer, project manager and team leader in a smart-metering start-up company, before pursuing an academic career. In the years 2011-2012 he was appointed as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland. Between 2015 and 2017 he was the Head of Research in the Department of Computing and Informatics at Bournemouth University.

Research

His research interests lie in a broadly understood area of AI, machine learning and data science, with a particular focus on practical applications. Throughout his career, I was involved in a number of consultancy and research projects with industry, ranging from EU-funded international research programmes to multiple Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, always with a particular focus on tangible impact and societally useful innovation.

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