About

Przemysław Wiktor Pardel

PhD Eng. in Computer Science · MBA

Research scientist and engineer working on medical image analysis, computer vision and interpretable machine learning, with a parallel interest in sports science and analytics. I try to connect academic rigour with production-grade engineering.

Research

My research concerns transparent, quantitatively validated AI systems for medical decision support. I place particular weight on reproducibility, reliability of annotation and geometry-aware modelling: a model that measures an angle on a radiograph should be judged against the variability of expert measurements, not only against a single reference label.

I work across the whole pipeline, from data acquisition and annotation protocols through modelling and validation to deployment, and I treat each of these stages as part of the scientific result rather than as supporting engineering.

Medical image analysis

Automated measurement on radiographs, including tibial plateau angle estimation in canine orthopaedics, developed with the University of Zurich.

Interpretable machine learning

Models whose decisions can be inspected and questioned; earlier work on rough sets for classification of cardiological data.

Computer vision

Image processing and augmented reality, including light-source extraction and image-based lighting.

Sports analytics

Video and timing data for the analysis of athletic and combat-sport technique, close to my coaching practice.

University of ZurichTierspital ZürichCollegium Medicum, University of RzeszówCollegium Medicum, Jagiellonian University

Current positions

  1. currentAssistant Professor
    Institute of Computer Science, Faculty of Exact and Technical Sciences, University of Rzeszów
  2. since October 2026Assistant Professor
    Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Academy of Applied Sciences in Nowy Sącz (ANS)
  3. since October 2025Researcher
    University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland. Research collaboration with the University of Zurich and the University Animal Hospital Zurich (Kleintierkliniken, Universitäres Tierspital Zürich) on the application of artificial intelligence and deep learning to veterinary diagnostic imaging and orthopaedic surgery.

Path

  1. 2016 – 2025Google
    Global developer programmes, including Google Developer Experts, Cloud Champions and Accelerator mentors; work around AI and Gemini. Co-organiser of the SciFoo conference; work with Google X; lead of a European technology start-up accelerator.
  2. since 2016Founder and lead developer, Photometer PRO
    Light-metering application for professionals and scientists.
  3. 2010 – 2014Research Assistant, Senior Research Developer
    University of Warsaw.
  4. 2008 – 2016Assistant Professor; Assistant and Researcher
    University of Rzeszów. Doctoral research in artificial intelligence, image recognition and processing, and augmented reality.
  5. earlierIndustry
    Software and IT projects, including MCX Systems, Positive Geeks and Factory117.

Selected projects

  1. 2022Commander and Habitat Systems Officer, SESU 48
    International analog lunar mission, Analog Astronaut Training Center.
  2. since 2016Photometer PRO
    Design and development of a light-metering application for professionals and scientists.
  3. 2013 – 2016National Science Centre grant DEC-2013/09/B/ST6/01568
    Interdisciplinary Centre for Computational Modelling, University of Rzeszów.
  4. 2010 – 2014SYNAT, National Centre for Research and Development, agreement SP/I/1/77065/10
    University of Warsaw.

Honours

  1. 2020Mentioned in the Nobel Peace Prize letter of thanks
    United Nations World Food Programme Innovation Accelerator.
  2. 2017Sumobot Champion, 1st place
    Singularity University.
  3. 2000Young Technician, inventor
    Młody Technik magazine.
  4. 1999Individual award, International Mathematics Contest
    Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, and Kangourou sans Frontières.

Memberships

I obtained the maximum score on the Mensa admission test (IQ above 148 on the Cattell scale, SD 24), which places me within the top 1% of the population on standardised measures of intelligence; on this basis I was admitted to Intertel International, a society whose membership threshold is the 99th percentile.

Association for Image Processing

Polish member society of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). Member since 2009.

Mensa International

Member since 2016. Maximum score on the admission test: IQ > 148 (Cattell scale, SD 24).

Intertel International

Member since 2016. Membership limited to the top 1% on standardised intelligence tests.

Teaching and mentoring

I teach software engineering and applied AI, and I expect student projects to be documented, reproducible and honest about their limitations. Recent courses include team programming, software engineering, mobile application development, AI agents in medicine, and AI systems design with API integration. I also mentor student teams preparing for AMPPZ, the Polish Collegiate Programming Contest, and supervise student research projects in computer vision.

I am looking for students, research assistants and future doctoral collaborators interested in medical imaging, computer vision or sports analytics.

Outside the lab

I come from Nowa Dęba in Podkarpacie. As a teenager I trained in the Polish junior national athletics team, and I still run marathons. Today I coach young sprinters and middle-distance runners. In 2014 I rode a motorcycle to North Cape and, a few weeks later, to South East Cape, about 10,000 km in three months. I am a husband and the father of three daughters.