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Jarek Szlichta is an Associate Professor at the Lassonde School of Engineering, York University, where he is a Research Faculty Fellow at the IBM Centre for Advanced Studies. He serves as co-director of the Data & AI Lab, focusing on data science and artificial intelligence. His research interests include data-driven systems, large-scale machine learning, and responsible AI, aimed at obtaining trustworthy insights from data. He has been recognized with the IBM CAS Faculty of the Year Award for his work on the tuning of the IBM Db2 system for machine learning, and for his contributions to the OCEAN GenRap analytic reporting tool. Szlichta has obtained various research grants from government bodies such as NSERC and MITACS, as well as from industry partners like IBM and AT&T. He completed his PhD at York University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto after spending three years as a student fellow at IBM CAS, where he was awarded the IBM Research Student Year Award.
York University • Toronto, ON, Canada
Teaching and researching in the fields of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
University of Waterloo • Waterloo, ON, Canada
Part-time faculty member involved in teaching and research.
Department of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies graduate programs generally follow the Faculty of Graduate Studies (FGS) B+ minimum requirement.