<div dir="ltr">Hi Artur,<div><br></div><div>That's superb news! As you say, congrats to Ignacy, Lukasz and Michal, and great to know that the Three Musketeers are sticking together and continuing to do good work back in Poland!</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>John</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 10:16 AM Artur Dubrawski <<a href="mailto:awd@cs.cmu.edu">awd@cs.cmu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Dear Autonians,</span><div><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">I am very happy to report that a team of our recent RISS interns </span><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Ignacy Stępka, Łukasz Sztukiewicz and Michał Wiliński have won the second prize in </span></div><div><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">the National Competition of the Polish Information Processing Society for the best engineering theses in computer science for their work titled </span>"DetoxAI: Improving Fairness in Neural Networks via Concept Unlearning".</div><div><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">They were awarded modest stipends. I have independently learned that the competition was quite tough this year, so this achievement is not a small feat.</span></div><div><div><br></div><div>Congratulations Ignacy, Lukasz and Michal!</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Artur</div><div><br></div><div>PS Check out the official announcement link below. The picture shows all the awardees - you should easily find familiar faces :)</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://pti.org.pl/znamy-laureatow-ogolnopolskiego-konkursu-na-najlepsze-prace-i-projekty-inzynierskie-z-informatyki/" target="_blank">https://pti.org.pl/znamy-laureatow-ogolnopolskiego-konkursu-na-najlepsze-prace-i-projekty-inzynierskie-z-informatyki/</a></div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_mcgb3l9a0" alt="image.png" width="452" height="301"><br></div></div></div>
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