Mateusz G. TwardawaPoznan University of Technology · PSNC

Curriculum vitae

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Positions

  • Oct 2021 – presentUniversity assistant, Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology
  • Dec 2017 – presentResearcher, Cybersecurity and Data Protection Department, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center

Education

  • in progressPhD candidate
    Thesis: “Complexity flow graphs: formalism and methods for measuring complexity as a system–environment relation”
    Poznan University of Technology
  • 2019MSc in Bioinformatics (biological sciences)
    Thesis: “Modelowanie procesu konstrukcji niszy w ewolucji somatycznej nowotworu” (Modelling niche construction in the somatic evolution of cancer)
    Inter-university programme of the Faculty of Computing, Poznan University of Technology and the Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
    Supervisor: prof. dr hab. inż. Piotr Formanowicz
  • 2018MSc in Biology (natural sciences)
    Thesis: “Ubarwienie samców gupika Poecilia reticulata a stopień ich zapasożycenia żyropalcami Gyrodactylus turnbulli (Monogenea)” (Male colouration in the guppy Poecilia reticulata and infection intensity with the monogenean Gyrodactylus turnbulli)
    Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
    Supervisor: prof. dr hab. Jacek Radwan
  • 2014BSc in Biology, specialisation: experimental biology (natural sciences)
    Thesis: “Wpływ wielkości ciała i doświadczenia w walkach na agresywność samców roztocza Sancassania berlesei” (Effects of body size and fighting experience on aggressiveness in males of the mite Sancassania berlesei)
    Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
    Supervisor: prof. dr hab. Jacek Radwan

Research projects

  • May 2026 – May 2029JURIDICA — Integrated platform supporting decisions and case analyses for merging penalties and penal measures in criminal cases
    Specialist in algorithms and statistics.
  • Jan 2026 – Dec 2028PUCHACZ — Platform for obtaining characteristics of adversaries and cyber threats
    Specialist in applications of artificial intelligence in cybersecurity.
  • Mar 2023 – Dec 2024Guideline-based sentencing algorithms — Algorithms based on sentencing guidelines as a counter-proposal to “AI courts”
    Data analysis and AI: algorithm design, data analysis, sentencing-recommendation models, publications.
  • Mar 2022 – Dec 2024Młoda Kadra — Algorithmic complexity in a cellular-automaton model of a context-constructing system, analysed with algorithmic information dynamics
    Principal investigator and sole researcher: simulations and their implementation, analysis, publications.
  • Oct 2021 – Dec 2024MALWINA — MALWare IN a box: AI-based platform for analysing malware and the traces it leaves on devices
    Lead machine-learning researcher; led a small team.
  • Dec 2017 – Aug 2019SCADvance — SCAda Advance: methods improving the security of industrial networks in the power sector
    Lead machine-learning researcher (AI-based anomaly detection in industrial networks); led a small team. Results were deployed in practice.
  • Jul 2013 – Mar 2014OPUS 2 — Effects of population size and density on survival and reproductive success of alternative male morphs in the mite Rhizoglyphus echinopus
    Maintaining mite cultures, heritability analysis, experiments.
  • Jun – Aug 2013Reintroduction of the edible dormouse (Glis glis) in Western Poland
    Release and radio-tracking of selected individuals in the Barlinek-Gorzów Landscape Park.

Publications (14)

  1. Szubert B., Twardawa M., Formanowicz P. (2026), Sieci Petriego a Metody Znajdowania Minimalnych Zbiorów Prekursorów w Projektowaniu Domen Sygnałowych Receptorów CAR-T (eng. Petri Nets and Methods for Finding Minimal Precursor Sets in CAR-T Receptor Signal Domain Design), Rozdział w monografii: Automatyzacja procesów dyskretnych. Teoria i zastosowania. Pod redakcją: Andrzeja Świerniaka i Jolanty Krystek, Wydawnictwo Politechniki Śląskiej, Gliwice, 2026, in press
  2. Świątkowska B. (host), Domaradzka A., Misiak T. and Twardawa M. (2025) "Inteligentne miasto: między innowacją a bezpieczeństwem : debata z udziałem: socjolożki Anny Domaradzkiej, wiceprezesa Zarządu Fundacja Polska Bezgotówkowa, Tomasza Misiaka oraz badacza problematyki cyberbezpieczeństwa Mateusza Twardawy", In: "Od katastrof do odporności. Gotowość miasta na sytuacje kryzysowe” Pod redakcją: Macieja Frąckowiaka oraz Bogny Świątkowskiej, Wydział Rozwoju Miasta, Urząd Miasta Poznania, 978-83-950369-7-2, IX edycja Forum Rozwoju Miast, 13-14.10.2025, Poznań, Polska
  3. Kiejnich-Kruk K., Twardawa M., Formanowicz P. (2025) Overcoming Sentencing Inconsistency – A Proposal for Algorithmic Guidelines and the Juridical Misalignment Index. Artificial Intelligence and Law; doi: 10.1007/s10506-025-09492-4
  4. Twardawa M., Formanowicz P., Formanowicz D. (2025) The Interplay Between Carotid Intima-Media Thickness and Selected Serum Biomarkers in Various Stages of Chronic Kidney Disease. Biomedicines 2025; 13(2):335; doi: 10.3390/biomedicines13020335
  5. Twardawa M., Gutowska K., Formanowicz P. (2024), Exploring relationship between hypercholesterolemia and instability of atherosclerotic plaque - an approach based on a matrix population model, Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology 22(6) doi: 10.1142/S021972002450029X
  6. Twardawa M., Formanowicz P. (2024), Grafy przepływu złożoności - definicja, przykłady i możliwe kierunki zastosowań (eng. Complexity flow graphs - definition, examples and possible applications), Rozdział w monografii: Automatyzacja procesów dyskretnych. Teoria i zastosowania. Pod redakcją : Andrzeja Świerniaka i Jolanty Krystek, Wydawnictwo Politechniki Śląskiej, Gliwice, 2024, pp. 261-284, ISBN 978-83-7880-972-2
  7. Twardawa, M. G., Smolik, M., Rakowski, F., Kwiatkowski, J., and Meyer. N. (2024), ‘Estimating vulnerability of industrial network infrastructure in Central and Eastern Europe’, Security and Defence Quarterly, 47(3), doi: 10.35467/sdq/190350
  8. Twardawa, M. G., Smolik, M., Rakowski, F., Kwiatkowski, J., and Meyer. N. (2024), ‘SCADvanceXP – an intelligent Polish system for threat detection and monitoring of industrial networks’, Security and Defence Quarterly, 48(4), doi: 10.35467/sdq/177655
  9. Kiejnich-Kruk K., Twardawa M., Formanowicz P. (2023) Towards automated recommendations for drunk driving penalties in Poland - a case study analysis in selected court, Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences, 48, 4, 425-451. doi: 10.2478/fcds-2023-0019
  10. Twardawa M., Formanowicz P., Formanowicz D. (2022) Chronic Kidney Disease as a Cardiovascular Disorder - Tonometry Data Analyses. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022; 19(19):12339; doi: 10.3390/ijerph191912339
  11. Twardawa M., Formanowicz P. (2022), Wieloagentowa symulacja polaryzacji makrofagów towarzyszących nowotworom (eng. Multiagent simulation of tumor-associated macrophages polarisation), Rozdział w monografii: Automatyzacja procesów dyskretnych. Teoria i zastosowania. Vol II. Pod redakcją : Andrzeja Świerniaka i Jolanty Krystek, Wydawnictwo Politechniki Śląskiej, Gliwice, 2022, pp. 113-121, ISBN 978-83-7880-854-1
  12. Kasprzak Ł., Twardawa M., Formanowicz P., Formanowicz D., (2022) The Mutual Contribution of 3-NT, IL-18, Albumin, and Phosphate Foreshadows Death of Hemodialyzed Patients in a 2-Year Follow-Up. Antioxidants 2022, 11, 355. doi: 10.3390/antiox11020355
  13. Dobski M., Frankowski G., Meyer N., Pilc M., Twardawa M. (2018) Zastosowanie metod uczenia maszynowego i zaawansowanego przetwarzania zdarzeń dla ochrony przemysłowych sieci infrastruktury krytycznej (eng. Applying Methods of Machine Learning and Complex Event Processing for Protection of Critical Infrastructure Industrial Networks), Przegląd Policyjny 4, 2018 (132); doi: 10.5604/01.3001.0013.6685
  14. Radwan, J., Łukasiewicz, A. & Twardawa M. (2014) Colony size, but not density, affects survival and mating success of alternative male reproductive tactics in a polyphenic mite, Rhizoglyphus echinopus Behav Ecol Sociobiol 68: 1921; doi: 10.1007/s00265-014-1787-7

Talks and posters (27)

  1. Twardawa M., “Metody analizy i przeciwdziałania zaawansowanym cyberatakom z wykorzystaniem krajowej infrastruktury badawczej Puchacz”, CYBERSECURITY DAY 2026, Częstochowa, Poland, 2026 (presentation)
  2. Twardawa M., “Modeling the Evolution of the Adaptive Immune Response: How to Overcome the Unpredictability of Pathogen Diversity?”, 9th Workshop on BioInformatics meets Machine Learning, Mittweida, Germany, 2025 (presentation)
  3. Domaradzka A., Misiak T., Twardawa M., Świątkowska B. (host), “Inteligentne miasto: między innowacją a bezpieczeństwem”, Forum Rozwoju Miast w ramach Europejskiego Forum Samorządowego - Local Trends, Poznan, Poland, 2025 (Panel discussion)
  4. Twardawa M., “AI in Bioinformatics: Cybersecurity Risks, Model Attacks and the Rising Threat of Scientific Misuse”, Laboratory of Algorithm Design and Programming Systems CS PUT Seminars, Poznan, Poland, 2025 (presentation)
  5. Twardawa M., “Attacks on Artificial Intelligence Models and Cybersecurity in Bioinformatics”, BioMeeting 2025, Masłów Pierwszy, Poland, 2025 (guest talk)
  6. Twardawa M. , Formanowicz P., “Grafy przepływu złożoności - definicja, przykłady i możliwe kierunki zastosowań”, XXIII Krajowa Konferencja Automatyzacji Procesów Dyskretnych, Zakopane, Poland, 2024 (presentation)
  7. Twardawa M. , Formanowicz P, “Quantification of protein active sites evolvability with complexity flow graphs”, Symposium of the Polish Bioinformatics Society 2024, Warsaw, Poland, 2024 (poster)
  8. Twardawa M. , Smolik M., “AI based protection and monitoring of industrial networks with SCADvance XP system - Continuous Development of the system - Key Results of the IDS Utilities Project”, International Conference Societal and technological determinants of security: Adaptive strategies for information and cyber challenges., Warsaw, Poland (online), 2024 (presentation)
  9. Twardawa M. , Formanowicz P., “Complexity flow graphs and demonic landscapes”, Laboratory of Algorithm Design and Programming Systems CS PUT Seminars, Poznan, Poland, 2024 (presentation)
  10. Twardawa M. , Formanowicz P., “Complexity flow graphs”, Dynamics of biological systems: emergent phenomena at different scales, Kraków, Poland, 2023 (presentation)
  11. Twardawa M., “Artificial intelligence in cybersecurity – examples of AI based systems developed at PSNC”, Laboratory of Algorithm Design and Programming Systems CS PUT Seminars, Poznan, Poland, 2023 (presentation)
  12. Twardawa M. , Formanowicz P., “Wieloagentowa symulacja polaryzacji makrofagów towarzyszących nowotworom”, XXII Krajowa Konferencja Automatyzacji Procesów Dyskretnych, Zakopane, Poland, 2022 (presentation)
  13. Twardawa M. , Formanowicz P., “Algorithmic aspects of niche construction derived problems”, ICOLE 2022 International Colloquium Lessach, Lessach, Austria, 2022 (presentation)
  14. Twardawa M. , Formanowicz P., “Multi-agent model of cancer hypoxia adaptation”, Autumn Conference PTBI, Online, 2021 (poster)
  15. Twardawa M. , Formanowicz P., “Simulation of eco-evolutionary aspects of cancer hypoxia adaptation”, Conference of Young Ecologists & Evolutionary Biologists, Online, 2021 (poster (The best poster award!))
  16. Twardawa M. , Formanowicz P., “Modelling Niche Construction Process in Somatic Evolution of Cancer”, Laboratory of Algorithm Design and Programming Systems CS PUT Seminars, Poznan, Poland, 2021 (presentation)
  17. Twardawa M., “Sabotaż w sieciach infrastruktury krytycznej i jego detekcja za pomocą metod sztucznej inteligencji”, V Ogólnopolska Konferencja Naukowa "Teoretyczny i empiryczne aspekty badań nad bezpieczeństwem międzynarodowym", Toruń, Poland, 2019 (presentation)
  18. Twardawa M. , Formanowicz P., “Evolutionary perspective on a problem of complexity of living matter - does life have to evolve towards more complex forms?”, Laboratory of Algorithm Design and Programming Systems CS PUT Seminars, Poznan, Poland, 2018 (presentation)
  19. Twardawa M. , Dobski M., Frankowski G., Meyer N., Samborski K., “Industrial network behavior monitoring using ensemble forecasting machine learning techniques”, Applied Data Science Conference on IFIP World Computer Congress, Poznan, Poland, 2018 (presentation)
  20. Twardawa M., “"Once there were bacteria, now there is New York" - some theory behind evolution of complex life”, II Conference of Young Evolutionary Biologists, Kraków, Poland, 2018 (presentation)
  21. Frankowski G., Meyer N., Twardawa M., “Bezpieczeństwo protokołów sieci przemysłowych w świetle badań nad zagrożeniami infrastrukur krytycznych”, PSNC Seminars, Poznan, Poland, 2018 (presentation)
  22. Twardawa M., “Wykorzystanie teorii informacji w biologii ewolucyjnej”, VII Studencka Konferencja Biologii Ewolucyjnej, Kraków, Poland, 2016 (presentation)
  23. Twardawa M., “Pokonywanie nieprzewidywalności środowiska”, Jubileuszowa Konferencja Koła Naukowego Przyrodników UAM, Poznan, Poland, 2016 (presentation)
  24. Łukasiewicz A. , Twardawa M. , Radwan J., “Wpływ wielkości i zagęszczenia populacji na dostosowanie samców rozkruszka korzeniowego (Rhizoglyphus echinopus)”, III Konferencja Naukowo-Dydaktyczna Wydziału Biologii UAM, Poznan, Poland, 2014 (poster)
  25. Twardawa M. , Łukasiewicz A., Radwan J., “Polimorfizm samców Rhizoglyphus echinopus”, IV Kopernikańskie sympozium Nauk Przyrodnicznych, Toruń, Poland, 2014 (poster)
  26. Twardawa M., “Rola i machanizm eksploatacji sensorycznej w doborze płciowym”, VI Studencka Konferencja Biologii Ewolucyjnej, Kraków, Poland, 2014 (presentation)
  27. Twardawa M. , Łukasiewicz A., Radwan J., “Male polymorphism in Rhizoglyphus echinopus”, I Polish Evolutionary Conference, Kraków, Poland, 2013 (poster)

Teaching

  • 2019/2020 – presentDiscrete Mathematics (classes) — Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence (in English) · BSc, Poznan University of Technology
  • 2020/2021 – presentSystems Biology (laboratory) — Bioinformatics · MSc, Poznan University of Technology
  • 2020/2021 – presentSystems Approaches in Biomedical Research (lectures, classes, laboratory (since 2025/2026)) — Bioinformatics · MSc, Poznan University of Technology
  • 2020/2021 – presentBioinformatics (elective) (laboratory) — Computer Science · BSc — introductory classes on molecular biology (all laboratories in 2021/2022), Poznan University of Technology
  • 2022/2023 – presentPhylogenetic Analysis (lectures, laboratory) — Bioinformatics · MSc, Poznan University of Technology
  • 2022/2023 – presentComputational Immunology (lectures, laboratory) — Bioinformatics · BSc (earlier also MSc), Poznan University of Technology
  • 2023/2024 – presentEvolutionary Processes (lectures, classes) — Bioinformatics · BSc, Poznan University of Technology
  • 2020/2021 – 2021/2022Cybersecurity of Industrial Networks (within Renewable Energy Sources) (lectures, laboratory) — Computer Science · BSc, Collegium Da Vinci
  • 2018/2019 – 2019/2020Programming Basics (laboratory) — Bioinformatics · BSc, Poznan University of Technology

Service and mentoring

  • Thesis supervision: Assisted in the supervision of 4 bachelor's theses and 3 engineering theses (formal supervisor: Prof. Piotr Formanowicz).
  • Co-supervisor of the Bioinformatics Student Research Club (KNBi), Poznan University of Technology

Student research activity

  • 2015 – 2017Co-founder and leader of the Biocybernetics Section, Bioinformatics Student Research Club, Poznan University of Technology
  • 2013 – 2016Co-founder and leader of the Evolutionary Biology Section, Naturalists' Student Research Club, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
  • 2011 – 2015Member of the In Vitro Culture Section, Naturalists' Student Research Club, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
  • Feb 2015 – Aug 2017Modelling M1/M2 macrophage polarisation
  • May 2015 – Dec 2016Automated measurement of visual traits of male guppies from photographs with convolutional neural networks
  • Mar – Nov 2014Heritability of female fecundity in Rhizoglyphus robini lines selected for alternative male morphs
  • Nov 2011 – May 2015In-vitro micropropagation of Chelidonium majus L. from different explant types