Antek Dziwura
I am a recent graduate with a BSc Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Warwick. I am interested in Computatbility Theory, Philosophy of Mind and Security Studies. Having lived in the UK, Warsaw, Paris, Berlin and briefly Hong Kong, I speak English, French, and Polish. Outside of work, I am an avid reader and sports enthusiast
My Experience
During undergraduate studies, I have worked as a research assistant to several professors. Below are some of my experiences:
- Cosmos Institute
Together with my co-author we have received research funding from Cosmos Institute . We conduct research at the intersection of AI safety, word embeddings and epistemology. - Research Assistant to prof. Mateusz Staliński at Warwick's Department of Economics.
As part of the broader collaboration between researchers at Columbia, NYU and Warwick I investigated "Digital Platforms: Welfare Effects and Regulation", through RCTs and large-scale behavioural interventions. I particularly worked with R, Qualtrics and JavaScript. - Research Assistant to Keir Giles.
I provided parts of the qualitative and quantitative research for FT's Politics Book of the Year 2024 "Who will defend Europe? An Awakened Russia and a Sleeping Continent" - read a short summary piece here. - Research Assistant to prof. Jeff Sonnenfeld at Yale School of Management.
I investigated EU energy dependence on Russian LNG and feasibility assessment of Moscow's Pivot to the East.
More About Me
Here is a list of texts that inspire and motivate me:
- On thinking big: Ulysses (Tennyson, 1842), Gödel, Escher, Bach (Hofstadter, 1979),
- On asking questions: The Library of Babel (Borges, 1941), The Last Question (Asimov, 1956), Surely You're joking Mr Feynman (Feynman, 1985)
- On seeking truth: The Hedgehog and the Fox (Berlin, 1953), Intellectuals (Paul Johnson, 1988), Fashionable Nonsense (Sokal, 1999)
- On human nature: Heart of Darkness (Conrad, 1899), The Black Obelisk (Remarque, 1956), The Master and Margarita (Bulgakov, 1967),
- On fundamental problems in CS and Philosophy: Facing Up the Problem of Consciousness (Chalmers, 1995), Computing Machinery and Intelligence (Turing, 1950),
July 1, 2025
Cosmos Institute Research Grant
May 1, 2025
My thesis on the impact of Virginia's data centre industry on US electricity markets.
January 5, 2025
LLM-generated content detection: recent developments, deployed methods and existing challenges.
December 3, 2024
Expressivity of Transformer architectures: recent developments, existing limitations and realistic consequences.