Mateusz Winiarek

I’m a Polish machine learning researcher and software engineer based in Warsaw. I’ve worked on language models and computer vision at NVIDIA, TSMC, and startups. I’m pursuing an MSc in Machine Learning at the University of Warsaw and have won four hackathons.

01 / Experience

Work history

May 2026 to Aug 2026

Founding Researcher

Researching models, benchmarks, and behavioral infrastructure for socially capable, proactive AI agents.

Barcelona

Feb 2026 to May 2026

Machine Learning Researcher

Computer vision for autonomous drone navigation when GPS is unavailable or unreliable.

Warsaw

Mar 2025 to Jan 2026

Software Engineering - AI Intern

Developed a common interface for language-model benchmarks and worked on clustering related model errors.

Warsaw

Nov 2024 to Jun 2025

Bachelor Thesis Intern

Developed a Vision Transformer pipeline for follicle assessment from ovary morphology.

Warsaw

Nov 2024 to Jan 2025

Quantitative trading firm

Machine Learning Intern

Researched and implemented a repository-level tool for automated unit-test generation.

Remote / Singapore

Jul 2024 to Sep 2024

Software Engineering Intern

Researched LLM inference optimizations for efficient VRAM usage and throughput.

Hsinchu

02 / Education

University of Warsaw

2025 to 2027

Master of Machine Learning

2022 to 2025

Bachelor of Computer Science

2nd / 180Master’s admission ranking

5 / 5Bachelor’s diploma grade

Top 7%Rector’s scholarship, 2023/2024

ICPC CERCUniversity of Warsaw representative, 2024

ICPC PolishUniversity of Warsaw representative, 2023 and 2024

03 / Awards

Awards and competitions

Selected results from hackathons, programming contests, and algorithmic trading competitions.

Mateusz Winiarek and his team after winning Track A at the Codaro Coding Challenge — Codaro × GDG Warszawa1st place · 2026

AI Engine winning team on stage with their prize — AI Engine1st place · 2025

ElevenLabs Worldwide Hackathon team on stage — ElevenLabsWarsaw winner · 2025

Goldman Sachs Engineering Hackathon award recipients — Goldman Sachs1st place · 2025

Mateusz Winiarek and teammates holding the AlgoTrade third-place prize — AlgoTrade3rd place · 2025

04 / Projects

Selected projects

Research and hackathon projects that complement the competition results above.

P / 01

LoSoNA

research · evaluation

A benchmark for evaluating local social norm adaptation in group conversations.

2026 Paper · dataset · benchmark View project

P / 02

Multimodal File Search

multimodal · search

A multimodal search system built for fast retrieval across different file types.

4th place + bronze Huawei Tech Arena Poland · 2023 View post

P / 03

Workplace Incident Reporter

AI · safety

An AI-powered platform for reporting workplace accidents and improving follow-up.

Top 3 finalist HackNation PL · 2025 View post

P / 04

Technical Interview Practice

learning · agents

A personalized learning platform for preparing for technical interviews.

Top 8 finalist OpenAI x AI Tinkerers View post