Habilitation

• Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• 29.05.2013: Habilitation degree in humanities with the specialization in philosophy
• Dissertation: The Structure of Persuasive Communication

Ph.D.

• Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw (Institute of Philosophy): 1995 – 2002
• 27.06.2002: Doctor of Science in Humanities, specialization: Philosophy – Logic and Methodology
• Dissertation: Notions of argumentation and proof from the pragmatic perspective
• Supervisor: Edward Nieznanski (Dept. of Logic)

MA

• Warsaw School of Economics (Management and Marketing): 1993 – 1998
• 23.06.1998: Master’s degree in economics
• Thesis: Selected applications of logic in group decision-making process and management
• Supervisor: Honorata Sosnowska (Dept. of Mathematical Economics)

Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

• 2020-, Faculty of Administration and Social Sciences (Philosophy and Ethics in Administration)
• Associate professor (profesor uczelni)

University of Dundee, UK

• 2013-2022, School of Science and Engineering (Computing)
• Honorary senior lecturer (2020-22), Senior lecturer (2018-19), Dundee fellow & Lecturer (2013-18)

Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

• 2012-2020, Dept. of Logic and Cognitive Science
• Associate professor (2013-20; profesor nadzwyczajny), Assistant professor (2012-13; adiunkt)

Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Poland

• 1998-2012, Chair of Logic
• Assistant professor (2002-12, adiunkt), Teacher assistant (1998 – 2002, asystent)

• Oct 23 – 2027 Ewelina Gajewska Polarisation in Digital Communication using Ethos Mining and Trust Analytics: A Computational Social Science Approach
• July 22 – Sept 24 He Zhang (co-supervisor: Jose M. Alonso-Moral) Explainable Rhetoric Analytics: Explaining patterns of rhetorical strategies of social media influencers
• Apr 17 – Jun 21 Debela Gemechu (co-supervision, 1st supervisor: Chris Reed) Argument Mining: Representation, contextualization and structuring
• Sept 12 – Sept 20 John Lawrence (co-supervision, 1st supervisor: Chris Reed) Explainable Argument Mining
• July 15 – July 20: Rory Duthie Mining Ethos in Parliamentary Debate
• Sept 13 – June 17 Mathilde Janier (co-supervision, 1st supervisor: Chris Reed) Dialogical dynamics and argumentative structures in dispute mediation discourse
• Oct 12 – Apr 17 Olena Yaskorska Structures of Dialogue in Debate and Financial Discourse: Modelling an ‘Ore’ for Argument Mining

• Nov 23: Best Paper 2022 prize awarded by the Warsaw University of Technology.
• Oct 23: Rector’s individual Award for Organisational Achievements in years 2021-22, granted by the Warsaw University of Technology (1st degree).
• Feb 23: Best Paper 2021 prize awarded by the Warsaw University of Technology.
• Oct 22: Rector’s team Award for Research in years 2020-21, granted by the Warsaw University of Technology (2nd degree, together with M. Koszowy).
• Feb 21: a prize granted by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education in the “Granty na granty — promocja jakości III” program, which awards projects submitted to H2020; awarded to Katarzyna Budzynska for leading work on “Data-driven theory of ethos, pathos and logos in argumentation for E-Deliberation” within the H2020 MSCA-ITN network “[REVDEM] Deliberative Democracy: Revitalising Representative Democracy”.
• Jun 20: a prize granted by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education in the “Premia na Horyzoncie 2” program, which awards projects funded in H2020; awarded to Katarzyna Budzynska for leading work on “Customized interactive argumentation schemes for XAI” within the H2020 MSCA-ITN network “NL4XAI: Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence”.

• ArgDiaP Association
• Centre for Argument Technology (ARG-tech)
• International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA)
• Polish Association for Logic and Philosophy of Science

• Jan-Sept 2020: University of Konstanz, Germany
• Nov 2013: University of California, Berkeley, US
• Apr 2013: IRIT (Institut de Recherches en Informatique de Toulouse), France
• Oct 2009 – Sept 2010: University of Dundee, UK
• Jul-Aug 2005: Rutgers University, US

• SC Chair (2022-2024): ArgDiaP Association
• SC Member, Liaison Officer (2018-2019): ArgDiaP Association
• SC Chair (2015-2017): ArgDiaP organisation
• SC Member (2013-19): European Conference on Argumentation

Katarzyna Budzynska, Chris Reed, Manfred Stede, Benno Stein, He Zhang, Eds. (2022) Framing in Communication: From Theories to Computation. Dagstuhl Reports, Dagstuhl, Germany, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, Dagstuhl Publishing, vol. 12, nr 3, p. 117-140.

Sanjay Modgil, Katarzyna Budzynska, John Lawrence (2018, Eds.) Proc. of 7th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument COMMA 2018, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Volume 305, pp. 1-480

Editorial Board, journal Argument and Computation, IOS Press (2016-)

Guest editorship of the journal Argumentation (Springer), special issue “Polish School of Argumentation”; 28(3) 2014 Springer

Guest editorship of the journal Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, special issue “Pragmatics and Dialectics of Argument”; 36(49) 2014 DeGruyter

Editorial Board, COGENCY. Journal of Reasoning and Argumentation (2009-)

• Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier (IF: 3.333)
• Argumentation, Springer (IF: 1.089)
• Argument and Computation, IOS Press
• Filozofia Nauki (Philosophy of Science), University of Warsaw
• Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier (IF: 3.997)
• Journal of Language Modelling, Institute of Computer Science, Polish National Academy of Science
• Journal of Logic, Language and Information, Springer (IF: 0.450)
• Journal of Pragmatics, Elsevier (IF: 1.350)
• PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science (IF: 3.234)
• Res Rhetorica, Polish Rhetoric Society
• Studia Semiotyczne (Semiotic Studies) (special issue), Polish Semiotic Society
• Topoi, Springer (IF: 1.26)

Member of the Evaluation Panel for CHIST-ERA Call 2019, Topic “Explainable Machine Learning-based Artificial Intelligence (XAI)” (supported by the Horizon 2020 Future and Emerging Technologies, FET, programme of the European Union through the ERA-NET Cofund funding scheme)

PC, 1st Workshop on Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence, 29 October – 1 November 2019, Tokyo (Japan)

PC, 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2019), August 10-16, 2019, Macao (China)

PC, 27th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2019), June 12-14, 2019, Stockholm (Sweden)

PC, International Workshop on Dialogue, Explanation and Argumentation in Human-Agent Interaction (DEXAHAI-18), 15-16th of December 2018, Southampton UK

Chair, Warsaw Argumentation Week WAW 2018 series of events, 6-16 Sept 2018, Warsaw (Poland)

PC, Poznań Reasoning Week PRW 2018, 11-15 September 2018, Poznań (Poland)

PC, 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2017), August 19-25, 2017, Melbourne (Australia)

Scientific Committee, ARGAGE (Argumentation & Language), 7 – 9 February 2018, Lugano (Switzerland)

1st Context, Cognition and Communication Conference, June 15-18, 2016, Warsaw (Poland)

PC 22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2016), 29 Aug – 02 Sept 2016, Hague (Netherlands)

PC, International Workshop on Argument Mining, since 2016

PC, 2nd International Workshop on Argument for Agreement and Assurance (AAA 2015), 16-18 November 2015, Kanagawa (Japan)

PC, Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA), since 2015

PC, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Demos, AAMAS DEMO2015, 4-8 May 2015, Istanbul (Turkey) & AAMAS DEMO2017, 8-12 May 2017, Sao Paulo (Brazil)

PC, Reasoning, Argumentation, and Critical Thinking Instruction (RACT2015), 25-27 February 2015, Lund University (Sweden)

29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-15), January 25–29, 2015, Austin Texas (US)

PC, Workshop for Methodologies for Research on Legal Argumentation (MET-ARG) at JURIX 2014 The 27th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (in conjunction with the CMNA 14 workshop), December 10, 2014, Kraków (Poland)

PC, Conference on Computational Models of Argument COMMA, since 2014

PC, Argumentation 2013, International Conference on Alternative Methods of Argumentation in Law, 8.11.2013, Brno (Czech Republic)

PC, 3rd International Workshop on Advances in Semantic Information Retrieval (ASIR’13), 8-11.09.2013, Kraków (Poland)

PC, Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation TAFA, since 2013

PC, Student Session at the 14th European Agent Systems Summer School (SSEASSS 2012), 28.05-01.06.2012, Valencia (Spain)

PC, Workshop on Well-founded Everyday Ontologies -– Design, Implementations & Applications (WEO-DIA), 8-11.09.2012 Wrocław (Poland)

PC, Logic and Cognition, 17-18.05.2012, Poznań
PC, Student Session at the 13th European Agent Systems Summer School (SSEASSS 2011), 11-15.07.2011, Girona (Spain)

PC, ARZP’09 (Argumentacja i racjonalna zmiana przekonań), organizer: University of Silesia (Poland)

PC, ArgDiaP conference, since 2008

Organizing Committee, VALUE ENGINEERING IN AI (VALE 2023), co-located with the 26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2023), 30 September – 05 October 2023, Kraków, Poland

Chair, Warsaw Argumentation Week (WAW 2018), 06-16 Sept 2018 Warsaw, Poland

Chair of Organizing Committee, 7th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument COMMA, 12-14 Sept 2018 Warsaw Poland

Organizing Committee, Summer School on Argumentation: Computational and Linguistic Perspectives on Argumentation SSA, 4-8 Sept 2014 Dundee, Scotland

Organizing Committee, Workshop on Argument Mining: Perspectives from Information Extraction, Information Retrieval and Computational Linguistics, 2-3 June 2014 Dundee, Scotland

Organizing Committee, 2nd Interdisciplinary Graduate School on Argumentation and Rhetoric: IGSAR “Corpus Analysis in Argument Studies”, 21-24 May 2014, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw

Organizing and Programme Committee, Speech Acts and Arguments (ArgDiaP 2013), 18.05.2013, Warsaw

Organizing and Programme Committee, Applied Rhetoric: Practical Perspectives on Argumentation, Dialogue and Persuasion (ArgDiaP 2012), 26.05.2012, Warsaw

Organizing and Programme Committee, Applied Rhetoric: Theory and Practice of Argument (in Polish) (ArgDiaP 2012), 17.03.2012, Warsaw

Organizing and Programme Committee, Cognition and Argument: An Insight into Real-Life Practice (ArgDiaP 2010/11), 18.06.2011, Warsaw

Organizing and Programme Committee, Zastosowania technik argumentacyjnych (ArgDiaP 2010/11), 26.02.2011, Warsaw

Local Organizing Committee, SemDial 2010 (14th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue), Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU), Poznań, 16-18 June 2010

Organizing and Programme Committee, ArgDiaP 2009/10 (Argumentation: critical thinking, dialogue, persuasion), organizer: Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology in Warsaw

Chair of the Organizing and Programme Committee, ArgDiaP 2008/09 (Argumentation: critical thinking, dialogue, persuasion), organizer: Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw