My name is Kamil Kmita. I currently hold a position of Research Assistant at Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, where I work on my PhD project in BIPOLAR project.

background

I would describe myself as a statistician and a data scientist with a primary focus on healthcare data analysis:

• a statistician, because I studied Mathematical Statistics and worked as a Senior Statistician in the pharmaceutical industry,
• a data scientist, because I worked as a Data Scientist in the consulting solving business problems. I still have this problem-solving attitude and believe that the analytical tools serve to resolve a specific problem (that often needs to be framed first).

These two terms interleave in my opinion, but still represent different roots. Anyway, my favourite quotation and motto says it all:

“Statistics is more a way of thinking or reasoning than a bunch of prescriptions for beating data to elicit answers.”
     Radhakrishna Rao, C., Statistics And Truth: Putting Chance To Work, World      Scientific, 1997

current activity

Having worked in the business for a couple of years, I decided to start my academic career. A couple of things I work on/enjoy:

• accountig for label uncertainty in statistical modeling,
• fuzzy clustering,
• programming in Python,
• problem of health status prediction in monitoring mental disorders such as bipolar disorder,
• writing scientific articles.