Franciszek Rakowski, PhD, Eng.

Assistant Professor
Franciszek Rakowski, PhD, Eng.
rakowski@icm.edu.pl

ORCID 0000-0001-6133-8900

Bio

Franciszek Rakowski, PhD, Eng. is a graduate of the Faculty of Technical Physics and Applied Mathematics at Warsaw University of Technology, where he also defended his doctoral dissertation on molecular dynamics of biological molecules using computer simulations. Part of his doctoral research was conducted at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling (ICM) at the University of Warsaw, where he stayed for the following ten years after obtaining his PhD in 2008. During this period, he co-led a project that built the largest system for simulating the spread of epidemics in Poland (2008–2011), while also pursuing his scientific interests in neurocognitivism and artificial intelligence.

In 2018, he joined the R&D division of Samsung Electronics as a Principal Data Scientist, leading projects that developed AI solutions in the field of acoustic intelligence for commercial products. Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, he returned to ICM UW to address the immediate crisis, taking charge of a team dedicated to forecasting epidemic progression and expanding the methodologies established a decade earlier. The team’s outputs were regularly presented to state decision-makers during briefings with the Ministry of Health and the Chancellery of the Prime Minister.

He served as a member of the COVID-19 Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, a member of the COVID-19 Monitoring and Forecasting Team at the Ministry of Health, and an expert for the Centre for Strategic Analysis at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister. He is the CEO of Simmundi, a company specializing in data analysis and AI algorithm implementation.

He currently works as an Assistant Professor at ICM UW.

Featured Publications
Selected Publications

  • Molecular Dynamics with the united-residue (UNRES) model of polypeptide chains. I. Lagrange equations of motion and tests of numerical stability in the microcanonical mode

    Khalili M., Liwo A., Rakowski F.,Grochowski P., Scheraga H.A.

    J.Phys.Chem.B 2005, Vol 109, pp13785-13797

    DOI: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jp058008o

  • Symplectic Algorithms of Molecular Dynamics. An Application to the United-Residue Model

    Rakowski F., Grochowski P., Lesyng B., Liwo A., Scheraga H.A.

    NIC Proceedings, From computational Biophysics to Systems Biology, Juelich 2006, Germany

  • Implementation of the symplectic multiple time-step dynamics based on the UNRES mesoscopic model

    Rakowski F., Grochowski P., Lesyng B., Liwo A.,Scheraga H.A.

    J.Chem. Phys. 2006, Vol 125(20), pp 204107, Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research 1, 2006 Vol 12, (11)

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2399526

  • A model of influenza virus spread as a function of temperature and humidity

    Zuk, T.; Rakowski, F. & Radomski, J. P.

    Computational Biology and Chemistry, 2009, 33, 176 – 180

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2008.12.001

  • Probabilistic model of influenza virus transmissibility at various temperature and humidity conditions

    Zuk, T.; Rakowski, F. & Radomski, J. P.

    Computational Biology and Chemistry, 2009, 33 (4), 339-343

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2009.07.005

  • Large Scale Social Mobility Model – a Monte Carlo Countrywide Simulation Study for Poland

    Rakowski, F.; Gruziel, M.; Krych, M. & Radomski, J. P.

    J. Artif. Soc. Soc. Simulation, 2010, 13 (1)

    DOI: https://www.jasss.org/13/1/13.html

  • Influenza epidemic simulation spread for Poland – a large scale, individual-based model study

    Rakowski, F.; Gruziel, M.; Bieniasz-Krzywiec L. & Radomski, J. P.

    Physica A, 2010, 389(16) pp 3149_3165

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2010.04.029

  • Generic framework for simulation of cognitive systems: a case study of color category boundaries

    Plewczynski D. , Łukasik M, Kurdej K, Rakowski F, and Rączaszek-Leonardi J

    Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, Springer-Verlag 2013

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02309-0_42

  • Synaptic polarity of the interneuron circuit controlling C. elegans locomotion

    Rakowski, F.; Srinivasan, J.; Sternberg, P.W.; Karbowski, J

    Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 2013, Vol 7, 128

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1403.5185

  • Parallel differential evolution in the PGAS programming model implemented with PCJ Java library

    Górski Ł., Rakowski F., Bała P.

    Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 2016

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32149-3_42

  • A Case Study of Software Load Balancing Policies Implemented With the PGAS Programming Model

    Górski Ł., Rakowski F., Bała P.

    In book: Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation, 2016

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/HPCSim.2016.7568368

  • Functional and effective brain connectivity for discrimination between Alzheimer’s patients and healthy individuals: A study on resting state EEG rhythms

    Katarzyna J. Blinowska, Franciszek Rakowski, Maciej Kaminski, Fabrizio De Vico Fallani, Claudio Del Percio, Roberta Lizi, Claudio Babiloni

    Clinical Neurophysiology, 2017

    DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clinph.2016.10.002

  • Mathematical modelling and large-scale computational optimisation elucidates the link between C. Elegans neural circuit morphology and worms behavior

    Górski Ł., Rakowski F., Bała P., J.Karbowski

    Conference Paper, Supercomputing Frontiers, Singapore 2017

  • Optimal synaptic signaling connectome for locomotory behavior in C. elegans: design minimizing energy cost

    Rakowski F., Karbowski J.

    PLoS Computational Biology, 2017

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005834

  • A pre-registered short-term forecasting study of COVID-19 in Germany and Poland during the second wave

    J. Bracher, D. Wolffram, J. Deuschel, K. Görgen, J. L. Ketterer, A. Ullrich, S. Abbott, M. V. Barbarossa, D. Bertsimas, S. Bhatia, M. Bodych, N. I. Bosse, J. P. Burgard, L. Castro, G. Fairchild, J. Fuhrmann, S. Funk, K. Gogolewski, Q. Gu, S. Heyder, T. Hotz, Y. Kheifetz, H. Kirsten, T. Krueger, E. Krymova, M. L. Li, J. H. Meinke, I. J. Michaud, K. Niedzielewski, T. Ożański, F. Rakowski, M. Scholz, S. Soni, A. Srivastava, J. Zieliński, D. Zou, T. Gneiting, M. Schienle

    Nature Communications, 2021

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25207-0

  • National and subnational short-term forecasting of COVID-19 in Germany and Poland during early 2021

    Johannes Bracher, at al.

    Communications Medicine, 2022

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-022-00191-8

  • Predictive performance of multi-model ensemble forecasts of COVID-19 across European nations

    Katharine Sherratt, at al.

    eLife, 2023

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.81916

  • Convexity and Monotonicity in Language Coordination: Simulating the Emergence of Semantic Universals in Populations of Cognitive Agents

    Gierasimczuk, N., Kalociński, D., Rakowski, F., Uszyński J.

    J of Log Lang and Inf 32, 569–600 (2023)

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10849-023-09401-5

  • Forecasting SARS-CoV-2 epidemic dynamic in Poland with the pDyn agent-based model

    Karol Niedzielewski, Rafał P. Bartczuk, Natalia Bielczyk, Dominik Bogucki, Filip Dreger, Grzegorz Dudziuk, Łukasz Górski, Magdalena Gruziel-Słomka, Jędrzej Haman, Artur Kaczorek, Jan Kisielewski, Bartosz Krupa, Antoni Moszyński, Jędrzej M. Nowosielski, Maciej Radwan, Marcin Semeniuk, Urszula Tymoszuk, Jakub Zieliński, Franciszek Rakowski

    Epidemics, 2024

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epidem.2024.100801

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