Scientist from Gdańsk Tech among the experts of the European Commission on the AI Act
Sebastian Cygert PhD Eng., from the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics has been appointed to the AI Act Scientific Panel — an expert advisory body of the European Commission that will support the implementation and enforcement of the Artificial Intelligence Act. The panel consists of 60 independent experts from around the world, including three from Poland.
Sebastian Cygert PhD Eng., from the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics has been appointed to the AI Act Scientific Panel — an expert advisory body of the European Commission that will support the implementation and enforcement of the Artificial Intelligence Act. The panel consists of 60 independent experts from around the world, including three from Poland.
The AI Act Scientific Panel advises the European Artificial Intelligence Board and national authorities on the implementation of regulations concerning artificial intelligence, as well as on assessing the impacts and risks associated with General-Purpose AI (GPAI) models. The panel's tasks include, among others, identifying systemic risks, reviewing the classification of GPAI models, supporting work on evaluation methods, and participating in activities related to market supervision.
The panel's experts were selected based on their competencies in areas critical to the safe and responsible development of artificial intelligence, such as AI model capability assessment, risk estimation methodology, mitigation of technical threats, cybersecurity, risks related to misuse, and emerging systemic risks.
Sebastian Cygert PhD Eng., is an assistant professor 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 the first representative of Gdańsk Tech admitted to the ELLIS Society — the European network of excellence in artificial intelligence aiming to strengthen the international position of European AI. His articles have been published at the most prestigious AI conferences (including NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ECCV).
His research focuses on creating 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 technological environment. He previously served as a scientific expert at Amazon, where he participated, among others, in the development of the visual perception system for the autonomous Amazon Scout robot and speech synthesis for the Alexa voice assistant.