AI Lab – Intercollegiate Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Platforms

AI Lab – Intercollegiate Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Platforms started its operations at SGH Warsaw School of Economics on 15 June 2023. Rector and SGH professor dr hab. Piotr Wachowiak has appointed the Centre’s council comprising thirteen representatives of all collegia of our university and external experts from Polish and international research centres.

AI Lab is a research centre, whose objective is to integrate SGH employees and students interested in applications of artificial intelligence and digital platforms in economy. In recent years we have been receiving new information about advancement of machine learning and digital technologies on a daily basis. These advancements have had and will continue to have a significant impact on consumers, companies, and whole economies. AI Lab integrates research on this impact conducted in our school.

The Centre has already begun its activities. Since November 2022, dr hab. Tymoteusz Doligalski has been holding monthly intoDigital seminars. Additionally, soon there will be first conferences organized in cooperation with our Centre. In May 2024 the AI Summer digital conference will be organized (HTTPS://WWW.SGH.WAW.PL/WYDARZENIA/AI-SPRING-SZTUCZNA-INTELIGENCJA-W-NAUKACH-EKONOMICZNYCH), and in June 2024 together with international academic partners of our university we will host the 19th Workshop on Modelling and Mining Networks HTTPS://MATH.TORONTOMU.CA/WAW2024/.

AI Lab is also active in the area of research projects.

The project “Methods and Applications of Data Analysis”, financed by Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange, is a two-year project aimed at developing cooperation between our university and its strategic academic partners in the area of data analysis methods and applications. Our partner universities are MIT, Erasmus University Rotterdam, McMaster University, Loyola University Chicago, Northeastern Illinois University, and Toronto Metropolitan University. Within the project we conduct research on artificial intelligence, organise workshops and conferences, prepare teaching materials that have already been introduced in classes taught in our school. We are also developing an index of maturity of digitalization of Polish companies. You can find more details about this project at HTTPS://MIZAD.SGH.WAW.PL/.

The second project that we are currently working on is “Constructive Approach to Smart Technologies”. It is managed by Daniel Kaszyński, an assistant professor in our university. The project is co-financed by an international organization Global Partnership for Artificial Intelligence (HTTPS://GPAI.AI/). The objective of the project is to develop best practices for implementing solutions employing artificial intelligence in business processes. We are currently preparing an internet portal that will be available for AI practitioners and will be used in classes taught at our university that deal with practical aspects of AI tools implementation in business.

Another important activity of AI Lab is development and application of standards of usage of generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, in teaching processes in our school, most importantly with reference to BA and MSC theses.

Finally, we actively support the university administration by sharing the knowledge of AI Lab experts. We are currently finishing implementation of an analytical tool that will help researchers from our university to report their scientific achievements to Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education in a more efficient manner.
Finally, an important part of AI Lab activities is cooperation with external business partners. We are currently working on launching first innovative projects involving implementation of AI tools in cooperation with industry partners of SGH Warsaw School of Economics.

The use of artificial intelligence and digital platforms is one of the most important trends transforming the economy. Our ambition is to ensure that our university is a leading research and application centre in this domain both in Poland and internationally. We invite everyone who is interested in these topics to contact us.  

PROF. DR HAB. BOGUMIŁ KAMIŃSKI, Director of the AI Lab – Intercollegiate Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Platforms, Head of the Decision Analysis and Support Unit, SGH Collegium of Economic Analysis

DR HAB. TYMOTEUSZ DOLIGALSKI, prof. SGH, Deputy Director of the AI Lab – Intercollegiate Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Platforms, Head of the e-Business Unit, SGH Collegium of Economic Analysis

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