Senior AI Engineer / Researcher, PhD

Agnieszka
Mikołajczyk-Bareła

I work in the Proof of Concept team at Chaptr.AI, testing new AI approaches together with publishing houses. Before that I worked on Reedy, and before Chaptr I was on the team that shipped TRURL, Poland's first large-scale generative model.

Outside work I write fiction. Since October 2024 I have been working on a dark fantasy novel, which I am now editing.

3 400+ citations
30 publications
13 projects
Top Women in AI Poland

Writing

My first novel Dark fantasy. I started writing it in October 2024. The full draft is written and I am editing it now.
Research papers Journal and conference papers on machine learning, explainable AI and bias in data. The full list is on the Research page.
PhD thesis ↗ Data Augmentation and Explainability for Bias Discovery and Mitigation in Deep Learning (Gdańsk University of Technology, 2022).
Master's and engineering theses Both won awards. The master's thesis won Diploma of the Year at the Faculty of Electrical and Control Engineering and first place in Young Innovators 2018. The engineering thesis won first place in Young Innovators 2016.
AI Explained Short explanations of AI research papers in plain language. 38 posts so far.
hAI Magazine Articles as a contributing AI expert, on topics such as multimodal LLMs and DeepSeek.
The Things Mimi Brought Home The story and dialogue for my narrative mystery game.

Skills

LLMs & AI Agents LLM Training · Fine-tuning · RAG · LangChain · Agentic Pipelines · Prompt Engineering · Evaluation · Pydantic · OpenAI / Claude / Gemini / Llama
NLP & Speech Transformers · BERT · GPT · TTS · ASR · Sentiment Analysis · NER
Computer Vision & Multimodal EfficientDet · DETR · Mask R-CNN · GANs · Vision Transformers · Image Generation · Video Generation
Explainable AI Attention Maps · Counterfactual Analysis · Bias Detection · Global Explanations
Data & Annotation Dataset Curation · Annotation Pipelines · Data Cleaning · Benchmarking · Crowdsourcing
ML Engineering Python · PyTorch · HuggingFace · ONNX · Model Training & Deployment

Projects

Research, open-source, and industry work

Schema-First Prompting [Claude Skill]

Modern prompt engineering, designed the way a human would — clean, minimal, elegant. An open-source skill for Claude and Cursor that encodes best practices for structured outputs with Pydantic models.

LLM · Prompt Engineering · Open Source GitHub ↗
npx skills add AgaMiko/schema-first-prompting
2026

The Things Mimi Brought Home [Game]

A mystery game where you play as a cat in an apartment block. I started it at Vibe Jam 2026 and it is now a full game of about two hours, with a scent-based investigation, seven chapters and two endings. Built with Three.js for desktop and mobile.

Three.js · Web · Game · JavaScript · Vibe Jam Play ↗
2026

Model training

Trained models across computer vision (classification, detection, segmentation), NLP and generative text, and audio; with the VoiceLab team shipped TRURL 7B/13B (incl. 8-bit and academic), vlt5-base-keywords, herbert-base-cased-sentiment, and datasets on Hugging Face.

Deep Learning · NLP · Computer Vision · Audio · Open Source VoiceLab on Hugging Face ↗
2015 — 2026

Biomedical imaging

Dermoscopy / melanoma bibliography (classical features through NAS, self-supervision, augmentation, bias) plus deep learning for other biomedical imaging—microbleeds, blood smear, erythrocytes—with links added over time.

Deep Learning · Medicine · XAI · Research GAN debiasing code ↗ PG profile ↗
2015 — 2025

Waste detection

WiMLDS Trójmiasto AI4Good: PyTorch detection and segmentation (EfficientDet, DETR, Mask R-CNN, Faster R-CNN) on merged litter benchmarks, Waste Management paper, curated waste image datasets list (338+ stars), and co-organized Hack4Environment (waste & environmental literacy with DIH4.AI).

Computer Vision · AI4Good · Deep Learning · Datasets · Hackathon · Open Source Detect code ★220 ↗ Datasets review ★338 ↗ Website ↗ Paper ↗ Hack4Environment ↗ PG profile ↗
2021

Get in touch

For work, collaboration or speaking, message me on LinkedIn. Outside work I write, read, cook and spend time with my two cats.

LinkedIn ↗ The best way to reach me.
GitHub ↗ Code and open-source projects.
Google Scholar ↗ Papers and citations.
HuggingFace ↗ Models and datasets.