Applied AI Research Group
Wroclaw University of Technology
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Applied AI Research Group

A student-led research collective at the Wroclaw University of Technology, building at the edge of agentic AI — from Claude Code harnesses and evolutionary methods to world models and edge deployment.

status:active members:7 topics:8 open location:Wroclaw, PL
apply to join → see research ↓
odysai — bash ~/research
02 — Research Topics

What we work on

Eight open research topics — agentic, applied, and increasingly weird. Each is led by a member of the group; collaborators welcome.

01topic/creativity
Creativity
Divergent thinking as optimisation — can models brainstorm, not just retrieve?
Mateusz Bystronski
02topic/evolution
Evolution
Evolutionary search and population-based methods for agent optimisation.
Mikolaj Holysz · Grzegorz Piotrowski
03topic/rl
Reinforcement Learning
RL for agentic systems — reward shaping, preference learning, self-improvement loops.
Konrad Kielczynski · Mateusz Bystronski
04topic/finance
AI in Finance
Applied ML for financial signals, risk, and decision-support under uncertainty.
Kamil Tagowski
05topic/agent-repr
Agent Representation
How should an agent represent itself, its tools, and its ongoing plan?
Jakub Binkowski · Grzegorz Piotrowski
06topic/world-models
World Models
Latent-space simulators agents can plan against — beyond discrete token search.
Mateusz Bystronski
07topic/edge-ai
Edge AI
Small, efficient models and harnesses that run on-device without giving up capability.
Mikolaj Holysz
08topic/claude-skills
Claude Skills
Skill design, tool-use patterns, and getting the most out of modern coding agents.
Grzegorz Piotrowski
03 — The Team

Who we are

Seven researchers and one scientific mentor. Mostly AI and CS students — all of us obsessed with making agents that actually work.

MB
Mateusz Bystronski
creativity · rl · world-models
MH
Mikolaj Holysz
evolution · edge-ai
GP
Grzegorz Piotrowski
evolution · agent-repr · claude-skills
KK
Konrad Kielczynski
reinforcement-learning
KT
Kamil Tagowski
ai-in-finance
JB
Jakub Binkowski
agent-representation
★ Scientific Mentor
Prof. Tomasz Kajdanowicz
Wroclaw University of Technology
04 — Join Us

Apply to join

We're looking for AI students who want to work at the edge — on real systems, real papers, and real products. If any of the below sounds like you, ping us.

  • 01 Be at the front of the newest things in AI
  • 02 Learn and show others how to work with agentic harnesses
  • 03 Build agentic systems
  • 04 Build their own products
❯ ./apply.sh --interactive
# contact.txt
# name:
Grzegorz Piotrowski
# role:
contact & recruiting lead
# email:
grzegorz.piotrowski@pwr.edu.pl
# affil:
Wroclaw University of Technology
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