A researcher from Gdańsk Tech joins the European Commission’s panel of experts on the AI Act | Gdańsk University of Technology

The AI Act Scientific Panel advises the European AI Office and national authorities on the implementation of legislation relating to artificial intelligence, as well as on the assessment of the impacts and risks associated with general-purpose AI (GPAI) models. The panel’s tasks include, among other things, identifying systemic risks, providing opinions on the classification of GPAI models, supporting work on methods for their assessment, and participating in market oversight activities.

The panel’s experts were selected on their expertise in areas crucial to the safe and responsible development of artificial intelligence, including assessing the capabilities of AI models, risk assessment methodology, mitigating technical risks, cybersecurity, risks associated with misuse, and emerging systemic risks.

Sebastian Cygert, PhD, Eng., is a lecturer at the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics. He is also the Head of the Security and Transparency Department at the NASK National Research Institute. He is also the first representative of the Gdańsk University of Technology to be admitted to the ELLIS Society — a European network of excellence in the field of artificial intelligence, which aims to strengthen the international standing of European AI. His papers have been published at leading AI conferences (including NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR and ECCV).

His research focuses on developing reliable, robust and adaptable machine learning models capable of operating effectively in changing environments. Sebastian Cygert, PhD, Eng., also has experience gained in an international technology environment. Previously, he served as a scientific expert at Amazon, where he was involved, among other things, in work on a visual perception system for the Amazon Scout autonomous robot and speech synthesis for the Alexa voice assistant.