Successes

The UW Crows team took 4th place in the overall standings and won the Driving in Difficult Terrain Award (recognizing outstanding achievements in navigating the rover across challenging terrain) at the Anatolian Rover Challenge 2026. The team included students from our Faculty who are members of the Robotics and Automation student club.

 

Our Faculty was represented at the 33. IMC - International Mathematical Competition by a team comprising Krzysztof Karwik, Michał Kaźmierczak, Łukasz Łopacki, and Adam Naskręcki.
Michał Kaźmierczak, an IMC debutant, achieved an outstanding result, scoring 75 points (placing 13th–15th, winning a First Prize and a special prize). Adam Naskręcki and Krzysztof Karwik won silver medals (Second Prize), scoring 50 and 47 points, respectively. Łukasz Łopacki missed out on a bronze medal by just 4 points (scoring 30 points and receiving an Honorable Mention).

The team was coached by Dr. Rafał Martynek.

 

At the international final of the 40th Mathematical and Logical Games Championship, held in July 2026 at Bocconi University, our country was represented by, among others, our students, staff, and alumni. They achieved outstanding results: Robert Soboński won the L2 (student) category, with Maciej Ignaciuk taking second place. Łukasz Bozyk won the HC category (professional mathematicians), while our alumnus Hubert Orlik-Grzesik placed third in the category for adults who are not professional mathematicians.

 

At the 33rd Vojtech Jarnik International Mathematical Competition, our students achieved the following results:
- in Category I (1st and 2nd year of study), Mikołaj Woźniak took third place, while Krzysztof Karwik placed between 6th and 10th;
- in Category II (3rd to 5th year of study), Adam Naskręcki took second place, and Łukasz Łopacki placed between 19th and 21st.

Their academic supervisor was Witold Bednorz.

 

UW team, consisting of our students, Michał Birecki, Joanna Mali, Piotr Maksymiuk, Filip Nogaj, Korneliusz Obarski, and Zuzanna Ossowska, took eighth place in the International Rover Challenge, held in India at the turn of January and February. They also earned the Emerging Team of the Year award. The team captain was Mateusz Kamiński, a MISMaP student studying computer science and ML at MIMUW.

 

Our team UW2 consisting of Jan Gwiazda, Stanisław Karpiejczyk and Jerzy Olkowski are the Central Europe vice-champion in Collegiate Programming They won gold medal in this year CERC ICPC, thereby advancing to the world finals. Our other teams won two silver medals and one bronze.

 

MIM FORCE ONE - our team consisting of Korneliusz Obarski (captain), Łukasz Łopacki, Adam Naskręcki and Mikołaj Woźniak won gold medal, finishing second in the whole ISTCiM competition (International Student Team Competition in Mathematics). Individually, all our representatives also won gold medals. Adam Naskręcki solved all the tasks and won a special award (Best Individual Performance Prize).
Team's couach was Dr. Rafał Martynek.

 

Our students, staff, and alumni performed exceptionally well at the International Championships in Mathematical Games:
- L2 (university students): 1st place for Robert Soboński, 2nd for Konrad Czarnecki;
- GP (adults, general public): 1st place for Łukasz Kalinowski;
- HC (adults, top-level competition): 1st place for Łukasz Bożyk.
Moreover Marianna Gołębiewska finished fifth in L2-p category, and as a team, Poland (consisting in 3/5 of our students mentioned above) won the 1st place.

 

In the International Mathematical Competition for students held in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, MIM FORCE ONE team won two first-degree prizes and two second-degree prizes:
Adam Naskręcki - 80 p, First Prize (gold medal)
Korneliusz Obarski - 60 p, First Prize (gold medal)
Paweł Pielasa - 46 p, Second Prize (silver medal)
Szymon Szmigielski - 46 p, Second Prize (silver medal).
In an unofficial ranking UW took 8th place.
The team was prepared by Dr Rafał Martynek.

 

Our former student, Przemysław Dębiak, won the AtCoder World Tour Finals 2025 Heuristic! It came as a huge surprise that the winner was not a AI chatbot, but a human.

 

In this year's edition of the VJIMC - Vojtech Jarnik International Mathematical Competition, our students performed very well:
- in category I (1st-2nd year of studies) Jeremi Hyska finished 9-10th, and Mikołaj Woźniak -15th;
- in category II (3rd-5th year of studies) Adam Naskręcki was third, and Korneliusz Obarski finished 8-9th.

 

The UW team consisting of Ivan Gechu, Adam Sołtan and Franciszek Witt took third place in the Central European Collegiate Programming Championships, winning the gold medal and qualifying for the world championship finals. The other four UW teams won all four bronze medals.

 

MIM Force team, composed of Antoni Puch (captain), Jakub Jagiełła, Szymon Szmigielski, Cezary Botta, and Korneliusz Obarski, won the team category of the International Student Team Competition in Mathematics. Individually our students won: a gold medal and the "Best Individual Performance Prize": Antoni Puch, gold medals and the "First Prize Diploma": Jakub Jagiełła and Korneliusz Obarski, silver medals: Cezary Botta and Szymon Szmigielski.

 

The whole team representing MIMUW, i.e., Korneliusz Obarski, Paweł Pielasa, Szymon Szmigielski, Antoni Puch won gold medals on the IMC 2024 (International Mathematics Competition for University Students). They were coached by Witold Bednorz.

 

The laureates of this year’s Witold Lipski Award are our PhD student Hubert Baniecki and alumnus Michał Nauman.

 

An interdisciplinary paper entitled Transient topological entanglement of chromatin fiber in human cells during interphase, on chromatin looping, co-authored by Maciej Borodzik, Marcin Pilipczuk, Michał Pilipczuk, and Kamila Winnicka-Sztachelska has been published in Nature Scientific Reports.

 

Maciej Skórski received the "Best Paper Award - Best Work in Progress" for the paperMoral Semantics Survive Machine Translation: Cross-Lingual Evidence at the  ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (ACM GoodIT 2026).

 

Arkadiusz Czarkowski received the Best Student Paper award at the CPM 2026 conference for his single-authored paper, Improved Bounds on the Sum of Exponents of Runs in a String. The paper presents results obtained as part of his master's thesis, written under the supervision of Jakub Radoszewski.

 

The SIGMOD Research Highlights list (top 10 papers in databases, both theory and systems) published in the previous year included the following papers:
- Relational Programming in Rel by Filip Murlak
- AnyBlox: A Framework for Self-Decoding Datasets by our graduate Mateusz Gienieczka (currently a PhD student at TU Munich, Filip Murlak's Master's student).

 

Damian Niwiński and Paweł Urzyczyn, together with Teodor Knapik (ISEA, Université de la Nouvelle Calédonie), have been awarded this year's ETAPS Test of Time Award for the paper Higher-Order Pushdown Trees Are Easy, published in 2002 at the FoSSaCS conference.

 

Wojciech Czerwiński and Michał Pilipczuk have just received the prestigious Consolidator grants from the European Research Council. Dr. Wojciech Czerwiński will lead the POLARIS project entitled "Reachability in Infinite Systems at High Resolution" and dr. Michał Pilipczuk will lead the WYDRA project entitled "Towards a unified structure theory for dense graphs".

 

Our doctoral student Alicja Ziarko received Google PhD Fellowship 2025 . Alicja is developing research on abstract levels of generalization in machine learning systems. She works under the supervision of Professor Piotr Miłoś.

 

 

In the Top 2% Scientists 2024 ranking, issued by Stanford University, there are 9 our sceintists: Mikołaj Bojańczyk, Stefan Dziembowski, Hung Son Nguyen, Anh Linh Nguyen, Wojciech Rytter, Piotr Skowron, Dominik Ślęzak, Andrzej Tarlecki and Henryk Wózniakowski.

 

NeurIPS, probably the most prestigious conference in the field of AI and ML accepted for the event 10 papers from our Faculty. The authors are: Hubert Baniecki, Przemysław Biecek, Marek Cygan, Piotr Miłoś, Michał Nauman, Szymon Płotka, Bartłomiej Sobieski, Piotr Skowron, Konrad Staniszewski, Ewa Szczurek, Michał Zawalski and Alicja Ziarko.

 

Marek Cygan, Michał Pilipczuk, Piotr Sankowski, Piotr B. Mucha, Stefan Dziembowski, Łukasz Kozłowski, Piotr Skowron, Dominik Ślęzak, Mikołaj Bojańczyk, Linh Anh Nguyen, Andrzej Tarlecki and Hung Son Nguyen are among the 2% most cited scientists from all over the world (organized by Stanford Uni and Elsevier).

 

In the 2026 edition of the Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, mathematics at the University of Warsaw moved up from the 301–400 to the 201–300 range, while computer science maintained its position in the 301–400 bracket, which is the best result in Poland.

 

The only European team at the RoboSub 2026 international AUV engineering competition in California included students from our Faculty. The debutant team presented the BlueSpark project and received a Special Award for the innovative concept of "generating 3D model datasets using Gaussian splatting."

 

Prof. Piotr Sankowski won of the Digital Shapers competition in the "Visionary" category. This distinction is awarded to individuals whose ideas and actions chart new directions for the development of the digital economy. Prof. Sankowski was honored for "bridging the worlds of science, technology, and business for years, and for demonstrating how AI serves as a foundation for competitiveness."

 

Dr. Michał Krych is this year's recipient of the Paul Erdős Award, awarded since 1992 by the World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions. The award was given, among other things, for the laureate's extensive involvement in the Polish Mathematical Olympiad, student competitions, and popularization over more than 50 years. Michał Krych is the only Polish recipient of this award to date, although it is worth noting that after 1996, it was combined with the Hilbert Prize, which was awarded to Marcin Kuczma in 1992.

 

Informatics at our Faculty appear once again very high in the Times Higher Education 2025 ranking. University of Warsaw in the domain of computer science placed 176-200.

 

Professor Jan Madey was acknowledged for his contribution to the development of the International Collegiate Programming Contest community and programming competitions in Poland and around the world. The award ceremony took place during the ICPC world finals in Baku in September 2025.

 

The University of Warsaw has received the ECMI Teaching Center certificate for the "applied mathematics" specialization offered at our Faculty. This is a confirmation that it offers education that meets the model requirements of the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry. 

 

In the Shanghai academic ranking of World Universities mathematics offered at UW was ranked the highest among Polish universities (places 101-150). In computer science UW appeared there for the first time and is listed as the only Polish university in this field (places 301-400).