Rafal Wojdan

Director of Data Science at Ryvu Therapeutics
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Experience

    • Poland
    • Biotechnology
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Director of Data Science
      • Sep 2021 - Present

      Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland ONE OF THE CEE LEADERS IN DRUG DISCOVERY Ryvu Therapeutics is one of the first Polish drug discovery companies. Established in 2007 as Selvita and in 2019 after after spin out of the services segment renamed to Ryvu Therapeutics. TWO DRUGS IN CLINICAL PHASES & FIRST POLISH DRUG ACCEPTED FOR CLINICAL TRIALS IN USA Ryvu's biggest successes are RVU120 (full ownership) - a selective CDK8/CDK19 kinase inhibitor in Phase I clinical development for the treatment of acute myeloid… Show more ONE OF THE CEE LEADERS IN DRUG DISCOVERY Ryvu Therapeutics is one of the first Polish drug discovery companies. Established in 2007 as Selvita and in 2019 after after spin out of the services segment renamed to Ryvu Therapeutics. TWO DRUGS IN CLINICAL PHASES & FIRST POLISH DRUG ACCEPTED FOR CLINICAL TRIALS IN USA Ryvu's biggest successes are RVU120 (full ownership) - a selective CDK8/CDK19 kinase inhibitor in Phase I clinical development for the treatment of acute myeloid leukaemia and myelodysplastic syndrome and SEL24 (MEN1703), which is first Polish drug accepted by FDA for clinical trials, - dual PIM/FLT3 kinase inhibitor licensed to the Menarini Group, currently in Phase II clinical studies in acute myeloid leukaemia. TEN PARTNERINGS WITH GLOBAL COMPANIES Merck, Menarini Group, Galapagos and Exelixis are global biotech companies that signed partnerships with Ryvu in recent years. DATA SCIENCE AT RYVU My role at Ryvu is to apply Data Science to support its drug discovery and development programs: Thus, my main responsibilities are: • Identification of best AI use cases and their implementation • Defining and developing AI and data strategy • Managing, leading and growing Data Science Department • Development of a Data-driven culture • Establishing Data Science partnerships and grants • Educating about AI and Digital transformation both senior management and the whole company Show less

    • Poland
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Lecturer - Postgrad studies: Data Science – algorithms, tools and applications for Big Data problems
      • May 2017 - Jun 2023

      Warsaw, Masovian District, Poland POLISH DEVELOPERS RANKED 3RD IN THE WORLD ACCORDING TO HACKERANK Polish developers are third in the world whereas Warsaw University of Technology is top Polish university the Engineering & Technology table of the QS Ranking by Subject making it also top contributor to Poland’s place in the world in computer science. TEACHING DATA SCIENCE – ALGORITHMS, TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS FOR BIG DATA PROBLEMS I am doing workshops for students who are willing to get into Data Science world and… Show more POLISH DEVELOPERS RANKED 3RD IN THE WORLD ACCORDING TO HACKERANK Polish developers are third in the world whereas Warsaw University of Technology is top Polish university the Engineering & Technology table of the QS Ranking by Subject making it also top contributor to Poland’s place in the world in computer science. TEACHING DATA SCIENCE – ALGORITHMS, TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS FOR BIG DATA PROBLEMS I am doing workshops for students who are willing to get into Data Science world and become practitioners: • “Text mining – knowledge retrieval from text datasets” in Python since 2022, previously in R • Artificial Neural Networks, part of block "Artificial Intelligence Methods" in R, lectures in 2019 Show less

    • Poland
    • Higher Education
    • 300 - 400 Employee
    • Lecturer - Post-graduate studies: Executive Data Science and Big Data
      • Apr 2018 - Jan 2023

      Warsaw, Masovian District, Poland NUMBER ONE IN CEE REGION - FINANCIAL TIMES RANKINGS Among others: #1 European Business Schools 2021 #1 Executive Education 2022 #1 EMBDA 2021 TEACHING MACHINE LEARNING AND AI TO EXECUTIVES I am a lecturer at one of the best AI for executives in Poland "Executive Data Science and Big Data" where I teach: • How Data Science can supplement decision making process • How Data Science project life cycle looks like • Intuition behind each step of Data Science and machine… Show more NUMBER ONE IN CEE REGION - FINANCIAL TIMES RANKINGS Among others: #1 European Business Schools 2021 #1 Executive Education 2022 #1 EMBDA 2021 TEACHING MACHINE LEARNING AND AI TO EXECUTIVES I am a lecturer at one of the best AI for executives in Poland "Executive Data Science and Big Data" where I teach: • How Data Science can supplement decision making process • How Data Science project life cycle looks like • Intuition behind each step of Data Science and machine learning Show less

    • Poland
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Head of AI
      • Jan 2021 - Sep 2021

      AMONGST TOP POLISH AI COMPANIES ACCORDING TO STATE OF POLISH AI 2021 Sotrender is Polish leader in analysing social media and Facebook ads. The AI team was established thanks to grant funding and its effort lead to Sotrender being honoured as one of the top AI Polish companies. MY ACCOMPLISHEMENTS AS LEADER OF AI TEAM • Met all the milestones of grant 1 focused on ML supported content marketing worth over 4M Polish zloty • ML models from grant 1 lead to creating new features in… Show more AMONGST TOP POLISH AI COMPANIES ACCORDING TO STATE OF POLISH AI 2021 Sotrender is Polish leader in analysing social media and Facebook ads. The AI team was established thanks to grant funding and its effort lead to Sotrender being honoured as one of the top AI Polish companies. MY ACCOMPLISHEMENTS AS LEADER OF AI TEAM • Met all the milestones of grant 1 focused on ML supported content marketing worth over 4M Polish zloty • ML models from grant 1 lead to creating new features in Sotrender app • Met all the milestones of first phase and moved to the second one of grant focused on ML optimisation of social media ads 5M Polish zloty • ML models from phase l and II of 2nd grant lead to creation of new product. • Merged two teams AI and Analytics and lead 12 people in its peak • Led the AI team through Covid times and transformed fully to remote work MY RESPONSIBILITIES: • Management of AI team • Both hands-on and managerial experience in conducting R&D projects in areas NLP, Computer Vision, predictive modelling • Responsible for the analytics & reporting services (planning, pricing, offer creation etc.) • Building AI & Data Strategy together with CSO & CTO • Member of Executive team

    • Machine Learning Team Lead
      • Dec 2019 - Jan 2021

      Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

    • Data Science Team Leader
      • Jul 2019 - Nov 2019

      Warsaw, Masovian District, Poland

    • Senior Machine Learning Engineer
      • Aug 2018 - Nov 2019

      Warsaw, Masovian District, Poland

    • Poland
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • ML Trainer
      • Mar 2019 - Mar 2021
    • United Kingdom
    • Technology, Information and Internet
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Advisor
      • Jul 2018 - Feb 2020

      Warsaw, Masovian District, Poland

    • Norway
    • Advertising Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Data Scientist
      • Jan 2017 - Jun 2018

      Warsaw, Masovian District, Poland • Member of team responsible for personalization concepts • Along with the team responsible for improvement of Recommendation Systems • Working on applications of word embeddings and deep learning in Recommender Systems • Research and development of new approaches to various analytical problems • Assessment of other analytical initiatives within the organization

    • India
    • Philanthropic Fundraising Services
    • Analytical/Industry Consultant
      • May 2014 - Dec 2016

      Warsaw, Masovian District, Poland • Providing data and analytical expertise to projects • Carries out projects for public, retail, industry and medical sectors • Leads developers/implementation teams (2-3 people). • Principal consultant in Customer Intelligence and Text Analytics areas. • Prepares and delivers presentations to customers at the highest levels of management. • Understanding client business pains and… Show more • Providing data and analytical expertise to projects • Carries out projects for public, retail, industry and medical sectors • Leads developers/implementation teams (2-3 people). • Principal consultant in Customer Intelligence and Text Analytics areas. • Prepares and delivers presentations to customers at the highest levels of management. • Understanding client business pains and translating them into solutions • Conducts project requirements gathering and participates in and leads design process. Show less

    • United States
    • Technology, Information and Internet
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Business Intelligence Analyst
      • Apr 2013 - Mar 2014

      Warsaw Area, Poland Summary: ================================================================= Since April I was assigned to be part of International teams and asked to combine my Polish and EMEA duties. However, every month the ratio of my responsibitlies increased in favour of international matters and eventually it was expected from me to become a bridge between my region and HQ. Usually I was assigned to project requiring above average data processing and data analysing… Show more Summary: ================================================================= Since April I was assigned to be part of International teams and asked to combine my Polish and EMEA duties. However, every month the ratio of my responsibitlies increased in favour of international matters and eventually it was expected from me to become a bridge between my region and HQ. Usually I was assigned to project requiring above average data processing and data analysing skills. _________________________________________________________________________ Since September a member of EMEA Analytics Team - duties: • Engagement in projects covering data from new sources, for example building dashboards to monitor shipment performance, • Data quality analysis of data recently attached to Data Warehouse • Identification of ETL errors and suggest solution • Taking care requiring purely technical solutions for example regular expressions • Being updated with flat tables query changes • Query and data structure support to other team members ________________________________________________________________________ Since April a member of Report Engineering International Team - duties: • engaged in global projects • direct co-operation with EMEA Business Intelligence HQ • solving international JIRA tickets • work from EMEA Business Intelligence HQ when necessary ________________________________________________________________________ General Duties: • Query maintenance, optimization with regards to efficiency and adjustment to current business environment through updates and testing • Integration and development of systems, tools and databases supporting and optimizing work of department of business intelligence • Cooperation with frontoffice and backoffice departments and management in the delivery and interpretation of business intelligence data to support management processes and decision-making • Supporting the development of skills of other Business Intelligence Department team members

    • Junior Financial Controller - Business Intelligence Department
      • Jan 2013 - Mar 2013

      Warsaw, Masovian District, Poland Summary: ================================================================= My first major task was to successfully complete transition from Exasol to Teradata within one month time. Generally, it required translation of all already build queries to Teradata SQL and communication with Business Intelligence HQ using JIRA in terms of data structure, accesses or support. Simultaneously, I had to execute report requests coming from all departments from every country belonging Emerging Markets… Show more Summary: ================================================================= My first major task was to successfully complete transition from Exasol to Teradata within one month time. Generally, it required translation of all already build queries to Teradata SQL and communication with Business Intelligence HQ using JIRA in terms of data structure, accesses or support. Simultaneously, I had to execute report requests coming from all departments from every country belonging Emerging Markets region. In the next months I had to prepare SQL background for every report in EMA region, apply improvements to running reports, keep updates of changing data structure and KPI defintions. __________________________________________________________________________ Duties: • Responsible for SQL query background for every EMA report • Translation of SQL queries from Exasol system to Teradata • Further automation of reporting with Teradata system • EMA sales reports development • Reporting to Heads of EMA region • Ad-hoc analysis and reports preparation for department directors at Groupon Poland • Development of reports, dashboards in SalesForce.com

    • Junior Financial Controller - Finance Department
      • Oct 2012 - Dec 2012

      Warsaw Area, Poland Summary: ================================================================= At the moment of my transfer to Finance Department Groupon Poland was informed to become reporting center for Emerging Markets region (EMA) and sales analysts team required to extended. In the first half I was responsible for reviving and improving reports that due to lack of work power were not ongoing. In the second half, I was assigned to familarize with Exasol data warehouse, data structue, basic sales queries… Show more Summary: ================================================================= At the moment of my transfer to Finance Department Groupon Poland was informed to become reporting center for Emerging Markets region (EMA) and sales analysts team required to extended. In the first half I was responsible for reviving and improving reports that due to lack of work power were not ongoing. In the second half, I was assigned to familarize with Exasol data warehouse, data structue, basic sales queries and reports, run them and prepare to transition to Teradata data warehouse. __________________________________________________________________________ Duties: • EMA sales reports development • Reporting to Heads of EMA region • Data extraction and analysis for EMA region (SQL, Exasol database) • Ad-hoc analysis and reports preparation for department directors at Groupon Poland • Development of reports, dashboards in SalesForce.com

    • City Planner in Shopping Department
      • Jul 2012 - Sep 2012

      Warsaw Area, Poland Summary: ================================================================= I was employed by Groupon Shooping Poland as an City Planner whose goal was to provide analytical support and insight. This meant to squezze every piece of data I received mostly from finance department and extract every drop of information from it. Furthermore, I had to fulfill also typical City Planner duties which include mainly on adherence to deals feature schedule by co-ordinating work of Sales… Show more Summary: ================================================================= I was employed by Groupon Shooping Poland as an City Planner whose goal was to provide analytical support and insight. This meant to squezze every piece of data I received mostly from finance department and extract every drop of information from it. Furthermore, I had to fulfill also typical City Planner duties which include mainly on adherence to deals feature schedule by co-ordinating work of Sales representatives and collaboration simultaneously with pre- or post-sales departments. In brief, it was all about planning sales and meeting target. __________________________________________________________________________ Duties: • Scheduling deals featured on Groupon Shopping Poland • Coordinating work of 10 Sales Representatives • Market analysis particularly focused on new trends and innovations identification • Ad-hoc analysis and reports preparation for Shopping Poland Director and Regional Goods EMA Director • Chief City Planner for electronics segment • Close co-operation with other sales oriented departments (Local, Travel, Customer Care, Graphics etc.) • Evaluation of "thematic" sales campaigns success and failures (for example Back To School) • Creation, analysis and improvement of win-win deal structures • Sales forecast and analysis

    • Poland
    • Computer Games
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Intern in Marketing and Licensing Department
      • Apr 2012 - Jun 2012

      Warsaw Area, Poland Summary: ================================================================= PlayWay is an innovative and open company which gave me opportunity to write my thesis about analysing consumer preferences using Choice Based Conjoin Analysis on real business problem. Beside doing my research my main responsibility was to promote PlayWay games, establish contacts with most influential game portal and take care of public relations. I guess I was quite good at doing that because even now after 2… Show more Summary: ================================================================= PlayWay is an innovative and open company which gave me opportunity to write my thesis about analysing consumer preferences using Choice Based Conjoin Analysis on real business problem. Beside doing my research my main responsibility was to promote PlayWay games, establish contacts with most influential game portal and take care of public relations. I guess I was quite good at doing that because even now after 2 years time my email address is still kept in gaming opinion leaders' email databases and I receive emails with co-operation offers. __________________________________________________________________________ Duties: • Preparation of casual games portals database • Analysis of casual games market - consumer approach • Development of report about casual games consumer preferences - conjoint analysis • PR & Networking - establishing cooperation with game portals • PlayWay games advertising - contact with game portals, new games announcements and recommendations for reviewers Show less

    • Poland
    • Higher Education
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Analytical Support Team Member
      • May 2010 - Dec 2011

      Warsaw Area, Poland Summary: ================================================================= I was engaged in research project ‘Modern management in healthcare institutions - trainings in cost accounting and management information and tools of restructuring and consolidation’ carried out by Warsaw School of Economics with EU funds. The project allowed me to learn how to work and communicate in a team. It was also opportunity to experience how structure of survey questions affect respondents answers and… Show more Summary: ================================================================= I was engaged in research project ‘Modern management in healthcare institutions - trainings in cost accounting and management information and tools of restructuring and consolidation’ carried out by Warsaw School of Economics with EU funds. The project allowed me to learn how to work and communicate in a team. It was also opportunity to experience how structure of survey questions affect respondents answers and future results. __________________________________________________________________________ Duties: • support project leader in every analytical like issue • collection and analysis of data coming from statistical survey • writing Polish summaries to English managerial accounting texts Show less

    • Office Assistant
      • Oct 2008 - Mar 2009

      Warsaw Area, Poland Summary: ================================================================= It was my first job and generally I was responsible for supporting office management. My main and only constant duty was to keep communication between IT Centre and other depertments of Warsaw School of Economics. __________________________________________________________________________ Duties: -written and verbal correspondence with other units, -registry of documents -creating data tables and… Show more Summary: ================================================================= It was my first job and generally I was responsible for supporting office management. My main and only constant duty was to keep communication between IT Centre and other depertments of Warsaw School of Economics. __________________________________________________________________________ Duties: -written and verbal correspondence with other units, -registry of documents -creating data tables and service of office machines Show less

Education

  • Warsaw School of Economics
    POST-GRADUATE STUDIES, Analytics Academy – Statistical Analysis and Data Mining in Business
    2013 - 2015
  • Universiteit van Tilburg
    Master of Science (MSc), International Management
    2011 - 2013
  • Warsaw School of Economics
    Bachelor of Science, Quantitative Methods in Economics and Information Systems
    2008 - 2011

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