About Conference

Welcome to the place where science meets engineering!

GHOST Day: AMLC aims at creating a friendly and vivid space for machine learning enthusiasts to exchange experiences and broaden their knowledge of the rapidly changing discipline of data analysis. Our speakers include recognized representatives of the scientific community publishing at top-tier global conferences such as NeurIPS or ICML and many experts from leading companies building machine learning-based products.

With the help of prestigious machine learning research centers and companies we have manage to organize 5 editions of the conference in the past, all of which were met with astoundingly positive feedback, both from the attendees as well as speakers and partners. You can find out more about previous speakers or their talks by navigating the top menu bar.

We would like to express our gratitude to all those who attended GHOST Day: Applied Machine Learning Conference 2024, held at the Lecture Center of Poznań University of Technology (Piotrowo 2, Poznań, Poland) in April. We hope you enjoyed the presentations, workshops and networking opportunities provided during our conference. If you want to stay updated on our future events and activities, please follow us on social media. You can find the links at the bottom of this page.

We look forward to seeing you at the next edition of GHOST Day!

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Conference Date

09-10 May 2025

'25 edition

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Agenda

CEST Time DAY 1: 09/05
8:00 - 8:45 Registration
8:45 - 9:00 Conference Opening
9:00 - 10:00 Keynote Lecture 1: Graph Neural Networks Use Graphs When They Shouldn’t
(Maya Bechler-Speicher, Meta)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break with OLX
10:30 - 12:00 Session 1: Natural Language Processing
(Babak Ehteshami Bejnordi, Roman Grebennikov,
Grzegorz Bilewski)
Session 2: AI for Science
(Adam Kosiorek, Jakub Adamczyk, Piotr Ludynia)
Session 3: Computer Vision
(Chih-Chen Kao, Krzysztof Krawiec,
Paweł Ekk-Cierniakowski & Kajetan Wencierski)
12:15 - 13:15 Keynote Lecture 2: LLMs for Code
(Baptiste Rozière, Mistral AI)
13:15 - 14:15 Lunch Break
14:15 - 15:30 Panel Discussion: Research in Academia vs. Industry
(Michał Nowicki, Baptiste Roziere, Stanisław Jastrzębski, Faustyna Krawiec)
15:30 - 17:30 Poster Session & Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:30 Student Session
(Dawid Siera, Michał Stefanik, Jakub Drzymała & Mateusz Konat, Kacper Cybiński, Łukasz Sztukiewicz, Kacper Wachnik)
19:00 - 1:00 After Party
Blue Note Jazz Club (Imperial Castle, Kościuszki 79, Poznań)


CEST Time DAY 2: 10/05
9:30 - 10:30 Keynote Lecture 3: AI Hardware and Real-world AI
(Andrew Fitzgibbon, Graphcore)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 Accurate Structure Prediction of Biomolecular Interactions with AlphaFold 3
(Augustin Zidek, Google Deepmind)
11:40 - 12:40 Session 4: Optimization Techniques
(Gergely Neu, Patryk Rygiel)
Session 5: AI for Healthcare
(Fatima Sanchez-Cabo, Anastasiia Ponkratova)
Session 6: Business Data Science
(Pavlo Melnyk, Jędrzej Kopiszka)
12:40 - 13:40 Lunch Break
13:40 - 14:40 Keynote Lecture 4: Oscillators and Traveling Waves in Machine Learning
(Max Welling, CuspAI)
14:40 - 15:10 Networking Break
15:10 - 16:40 Session 7: Natural Language Processing
(Grigory Sapunov, Martin Genzel, Patrícia Schmidtová)
Session 8: Explainable AI
(Stefan Haufe, Jacek Karolczak, Bartłomiej Sobieski)
Session 9: Applied Machine Learning
(Maciej Piernik, Michał Mikołajczak, Riccardo Belluzzo)
16:45 - 17:00 Closing Remarks



Conference Sessions

Efficient Deployment of Large Language Models on Edge Devices

by Babak Ehteshami Bejnordi | Qualcomm AI Research

10:30-11:00

CW 1

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LLMs for Machine Translation are here - but not quite yet

by Roman Grebennikov | Delivery Hero

11:00-11:30

CW 1

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LLMs in Education: Smart Lesson Generator case study

by Grzegorz Bilewski | Pearson

11:30-12:00

CW 1

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Learning the Language of Life: AI in Genomics & Cell Biology

by Adam Kosiorek | Google Deepmind

10:30-11:00

CW 2

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ML in agrochemistry and bee pesticide toxicity prediction

by Jakub Adamczyk | AGH, Data Science Engineer | Placewise

11:00-11:30

CW 2

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Surpassing GNNs and Transformers with Simple Feature Extraction for Peptide Function Prediction

by Piotr Ludynia | AGH University of Krakow

11:30-12:00

CW 2

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Advancing Ray Tracing with Neural Networks: Neural Intersection Function

by Chih-Chen Kao | AMD

10:30-11:00

CW 3

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Neurosymbolic Autoencoders for Image Interpretation: From Physics-based ML to Program Synthesis

by Krzysztof Krawiec | Poznan University of Technology

11:00-11:30

CW 3

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Machine learning in video processing

by Paweł Ekk-Cierniakowski, Kajetan Wencierski | SoftwareOne

11:30-12:00

CW 3

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Optimal transport distances for Markov chains

by Gergely Neu | Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona

11:40-12:10

CW 1

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Geometric deep learning for blood flow modelling in cardiovascular diseases

by Patryk Rygiel | University of Twente

12:10-12:40

CW 1

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AI enhances cardiovascular research

by Fatima Sanchez-Cabo | CNIC

11:40-12:10

CW 2

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Automatic diagnosis of systemic and ophthalmic diseases using deep learning techniques in analyzing fundus images

by Anastasiia Ponkratova | Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology

12:10-12:40

CW 2

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The Backbone of AI: How Data Engineering Powers Machine Learning

by Pavlo Melnyk | Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB)

11:40-12:40

CW 3

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Tales of moderation. How ML helps us detect fraud at OLX

by Jędrzej Kopiszka | OLX

12:10-12:40

CW 3

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LLMs and Multilinguality

by Grigory Sapunov | Intento

15:10-15:40

CW 1

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Evaluating LLM-generated text at scale

by Patrícia Schmidtová | Charles University

15:40-15:10

CW 1

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Can Compressing Foundation Models Be as Easy as Image Compression?

by Martin Genzel | Merantix Momentum

16:10-16:40

CW 1

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How can explainable AI provide quality control for ML?

by Stefan Haufe | Technische Universität Berlin

15:10-15:40

CW 2

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Explainable AI: Moving from Numbers to Meaningful Insights

by Jacek Karolczak | PUT

15:40-16:10

CW 2

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Rethinking Visual Counterfactual Explanations Through Region Constraint

by Bartłomiej Sobieski | University of Warsaw, MI2.ai

16:10-16:40

CW 2

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From Labs and PoCs to Production: Hard‑Earned Lessons from 20+ Real‑World AI Projects

by Michał Mikołajczak | datarabbit.ai

15:10-15:40

CW 3

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Retail Intelligence: From Noisy Receipts to Accurate Purchase Predictions

by Maciej Piernik | Poznan University of Technology

15:40-16:10

CW 3

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From Regret to Retry: Training LLMs for Self-correcting SQL Generation

by Riccardo Belluzzo | Allegro

16:10-16:40

CW 3

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RESEARCH IN ACADEMIA VS. INDUSTRY

PANEL DISCUSSION

FREEDOM VS. IMPACT. WHY DO SOME CHOOSE INDUSTRY FOR BETTER RESOURCES AND CAREER PROSPECTS, WHILE OTHERS EMBRACE ACADEMIA DESPITE ITS CONSTRAINTS? EXPLORING DIFFERENCES, CHALLENGES, AND THE SYNERGIES THAT DRIVE INNOVATION.

Michal Valko
Michał Nowicki

Research Assistant Professor | Poznan University of Technology, Staff Engineer | AeroVect

Baptiste Rozière
Baptiste Rozière

Researcher and Code Generation Team Leader | Mistral AI

Stanisław Jastrzębski
Stanisław Jastrzębski

CTO | MoleculeOne

Faustyna Krawiec
Faustyna Krawiec

Doctoral Student | University of Cambridge

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