Karolina Kuligowska

She has been professionally active in a variety of fields. She is an independent researcher, freelance science writer and editor, university lecturer, consultant, translator, website administrator and web developer. She enjoys learning and exploring new fields of science.

She loves the freedom of working as a freelancer. She is always open to new challenges, experiences and changes in my life and profession, therefore she seizes the opportunities of the moment.

She is an imaginative and visual thinker with holistic perception mode - as most left-handers. She has a scientific mind but also a lot of interest in the humanities, like linguistics, cultural anthropology and painting.

Education

• PhD in Economic Informatics, University of Warsaw, Poland (2011)
• MA in Computer Science and Econometrics, University of Warsaw, Poland (2004)
• Scholarship of French Government - traineeship at Institut Commercial de Nancy, Nancy, France (2003)
• Socrates/Erasmus Scholarship Program at Facultés Universitaires Notre Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium (2001 - 2002)

Languages

• Polish - native speaker
• French - fluent written and spoken
• English - fluent written and spoken
• German - sufficient to communicate
• Arabic - sufficient to communicate

Current research interests

Conversational AI: conversational agents for e-commerce. Design, implementation and evaluation of conversational agents' components (knowledge base, speech synthesis, human-computer interaction).

Text Mining: text mining analytics for scientific and commercial use. Research in computational linguistics, natural language processing, and text data analytics.

Chatbot metrics: costs and benefits of virtual assistants implementations. Evaluating available technologies of virtual assistants' development for e-commerce.

Other scientific activities

• giving lectures & workshops
• writing textbooks & tutorials
• preparing curricula & learning paths
• publishing books & articles
• academic reviewing of books & articles
• conference session chairing
• undertaking overseas study trips

Teaching

Language of lecture: English

• Big Data and Data Mining (with Text Mining)
• Text Mining techniques and applications
• Understanding Business
• Text Mining and Social Media Mining
• IT Tools in Economics

Language of lecture: Polish

• Computer Systems Design
• Unstructured data analysis - Text Mining with SAS software
• IT Tools in Economics
• Project management
• Analysis of Unstructured Data in Economic Research with SAS software
• Excel advanced level
• Excel - computer-aided business work
• JavaScript applications
• Web development in XHTML and CSS
• PowerPoint presentations
• Artificial Intelligence in business
• Fundamentals of Computer Science
• Microeconomics