Curriculum Vitae
Basics
Name | Ignacy Stępka |
istepka[at]andrew[dot]cmu[dot]edu | |
Url | https://ignacystepka.com |
Education
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2025.08 - Present Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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2022.10 - 2025.03 Poznan, Poland
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2020.10 - 2022.09 Poznan, Poland
Work
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2025.08 - Present Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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2023.06 - 2025.08 Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Research Intern
Carnegie Mellon University | Robotics Institute
As a Robotics Institute Summer Scholar I worked on resilience of decentralized learning algorithms to adverse scenarios, and on developing a formal verification method for Bayesian Networks.
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2022.11 - 2025.08 Poznan, Poland
Research Assistant
Poznan University of Technology
Conducted research in explainability techniques as part of the TAILOR EU network. Introduced a method for generating counterfactual explanations that are robust under model shifts, and developed a multi-criteria framework facilitating selection of user-aligned counterfactuals.
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2021.08 - 2024.05 Poznan, Poland
Machine Learning Engineer
Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center | Polish Academy of Science
Contributed to 3 EU HORIZON projects (ADMIRE, SHOP4CF, TAPAS). Topics included anomaly detection for HPC centers, creation of an event-driven system detecting paint defects on an industrial car production line, and analysis of black-box models in multi-agent settings to identify critical vulnerabilities.
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2021.02 - 2021.07 Poznan, Poland
Junior C# Developer
ProCat
Built new modules for automated product catalog generation in a large Product Information Management (PIM) system.
Volunteer
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2024.06 - 2024.08 Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Data Analyst
Robotics Institute Summer Scholars, Carnegie Mellon University
Led data analysis on a "Data for Equity" project for CMU graduate admissions, providing actionable feedback to diversify candidate demographics.
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2023.09 - 2023.12 Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Technical Support
Robotics Institute Summer Scholars, Carnegie Mellon University
Provided technical support for RoboLaunch Outreach seminar series, connecting young researchers with world-class scientists.
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2021.01 - 2025.02 Poznan, Poland
Seminar Group Leader
Student Research Group, Poznan University of Technology
Co-led the 'eXplainable AI seminar' (2023) and 'Machine Unlearning' (2024) study groups in GHOST.
Awards
- 2025.06
2nd place in the 5th National Competition for the best engineering thesis in the field of computer science
Polish Information Processing Society
Awarded for the thesis project: 'DetoxAI: A Python package for debiasing neural networks'.
- 2024.10 to 2025.09
Ministry of Science and Higher Education Grant
Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education
Awarded a research grant, together with two colleagues, of 15.5k EUR for the research project titled 'DetoxAI: Remvoving biases from neural networks'.
- 2025
Ministry of Science and Higher Education Scholarship for significant academic achievements
Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education
Awarded for academic achievements and research work.
- 2021.03 to 2025.02
University’s President Scholarship
Poznan University of Technology
5x awardee of the semestral scholarship granted to the top 10% of students with added financial support.
- 2024.06 to 2024.08
CMU RI Google Scholarship
Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute
Awarded during the RI summer program.
- 2019.03 to 2019.12
Intel AI4Youth Program Laureate
Intel AI4Youth Program
Won a national competition; developed a computer vision solution for gaze direction estimation to assist individuals with disabilities.
Skills
Python |
C++ |
C# |
SQL |
Git |
Slurm |
Linux |
PyTorch |
Docker |
ROS |
Languages
Polish | |
Native |
English | |
TOEFL C1 |
References
Prof. Artur Dubrawski | |
Direct contact available on request. |
Prof. Jerzy Stefanowski | |
Direct contact available on request. |
Dr. Mateusz Lango | |
Direct contact available on request. |