✦ emilia wiśnios

i'm emilia,
and i do research on
multi-agent llms.

getting them to play nice, figuring out what happens when they don't, and how anyone is supposed to check their work.

📍 warsaw 🎓 ellis phd · alicante & toronto 🐈 cat count: 5 ● currently: jutro medical & jinesis

about

hi, i'm emilia. i'm a phd student in the ellis program, split between ellis alicante and the university of toronto, advised by nuria oliver and zhijing jin.

my thesis is about verifying multi-agent work: when a pile of agents hands you a result, how do you actually know they did the job right? humans get tired and miss things, model monitors have their own blind spots, and hybrid protocols sit somewhere in between. i build benchmarks that measure the verifier rather than the agent.

before the phd i worked as an ml engineer and researcher: llm safety and polish-language models at nask (including pllum, poland's first open-source llm), security ml at google, on-device nlp at samsung, and clinical llm systems at jutro medical.

publications

2025

2024

2023

2022

* equal contribution. full list also on google scholar.

cv

full pdf here. short version below.

education

  • 2026 — 2029 ph.d., machine learning · ellis phd program — ellis alicante & university of toronto advisors: nuria oliver, zhijing jin · thesis: verifying multi-agent work — human cognitive limits and adaptive oversight in hybrid ai teams
  • 2021 — 2024 m.s., machine learning · university of warsaw advisors: piotr sankowski, paweł budzianowski · grade: 5 · thesis later published at ACL 2025
  • 2018 — 2021 b.s., mathematics · university of warsaw thesis: predicting escalations in customer support

experience

  • 2026 — present research assistant · jinesis lab, university of toronto multi-agent llm systems · human oversight of agent collectives
  • 2026 — present technical member · eurosafeai multi-agent ai safety · systemic risk research
  • 2026 ml engineer · jutro medical pre-visit patient interviews (text & voice) · automatic clinical documentation with real-time evaluation · multi-agent chat over patient records with rag · e2e evaluation suite with blind a/b testing
  • 2026 ai safety researcher · algoverse subliminal learning in chain-of-thought reasoning · mentor: michael mulet
  • 2025 ml engineer · google (via dataphant) ml pipelines for security workflows: incident response, code review, legal compliance · deployed models estimated to save ~$6m/year
  • 2024 nlp engineer · samsung lightweight on-device text features for mobile · literature surveys, paper authoring, peer review
  • 2022 — 2024 senior nlp researcher · nask (national research institute) llm training & finetuning for polish and english (pllum) · llm safety: jailbreak resistance, refusal behaviour, harmful-content detection · csam detection in narrative text · supervised junior researchers
  • 2022 — 2024 research software engineer · mi2datalab climate policy tracker · unesco tension detection · memetic analysis of big tech in ai research
  • 2021 — 2022 python engineer · silver bullet solutions gpt-based chatbot & ner finetuning pipeline for a telecom client · anonymization and storage tooling for sensitive corpora

selected projects

  • foundation model pllum · poland's first open-source llm, at nask pretraining & instruction data curation · pre-training and finetuning · systematic comparison of ppo / dpo / orpo · annotation guidelines for summarisation, preference and toxicity labelling
  • benchmark opengvl · open source temporal task-progress prediction with vlms across robotic and human embodiments · used to curate large-scale robotics datasets
  • benchmark adversarial multiple-choice robustness · m.sc. thesis sota llms degrade sharply when correct options are swapped for plausible-but-wrong distractors
  • deployed system climate policy tracker · mi2datalab nlp pipeline classifying national climate policies, live as a public dashboard
  • datasets harmful-content detection in polish · nask forePLay and ban-pl datasets · coreference-driven pipeline improving recall on long-form content

teaching & service

  • 2019 — present organizer · ml in pl association project lead of the 2023 conference · current board member · long-time organizer across student research workshop, call for contributions, speakers, sponsorship & marketing teams
  • 2023 — present member · unesco chair on intangible cultural heritage in public and global governance university of warsaw · faculty of political sciences and international studies
  • 2022 — 2025 teaching assistant · university of warsaw intro to cs · intro to ml · deep neural networks · nlp · nlp for social scientists · weekly labs for groups of ~20

toolbox

  • ml / research pytorch · transformers · langchain · smolagents · spacy llm pre-training, sft, ppo, dpo, orpo · distributed training with slurm
  • programming python · c/c++ · r · rust · sql · git · docker
  • languages polish (native) · english (fluent) · french & german (basic) plus scottish gaelic and spanish, in progress

misc / fun

the bits that don't fit anywhere else.

🐈 the cats

i have five. their names are Buba, Śmieciuch, Żepet, Kudłacz i Łapa.

📚 currently reading

  • 1Q84 — Haruki Murakami
  • Czekając na Godota — Samuel Beckett
  • 80,000 Hours — Benjamin Todd

🎮 playing

the witcher 3.

🌱 learning

scottish gaelic & spanish.

say hi

best way to reach me: emilia@goral.one

i read most cold emails but reply slowly. if i miss yours, it's not personal — just nudge me again in a week.