AI research and security governance, in one career.
Assistant Professor at Kozminski University. Head of Data
Governance & Compliance at Wyden. Twenty years spent moving ideas
from a paper into systems that survive an audit.
Speech-based screening for dementia and depression, spiking neural
networks and liquid state machines, eye tracking and human–computer
interaction. Published in Frontiers in Neuroinformatics and Frontiers
in Psychology.
My doctorate, defended summa cum laude at the
Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in 2023, built a
reproducible simulation pipeline for liquid state machines, with
computing time granted by the Hasso-Plattner-Institut in Potsdam.
Governance for systems under audit
Twenty years in IT, fourteen of them leading teams, and a deliberate
move from systems development into cybersecurity. At Wyden:
certification programmes across ISO, ISAE and GDPR, policy governance
and internal compliance. At Sportradar: security assessments and
regulatory and client audits, with teams in Warsaw, Vienna, Bratislava
and London. At Aviva: vulnerability management and penetration testing
across the Group Platforms estate. ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Lead
Implementer, certified by BSI.
Head of Data Governance & Compliance at Wyden, the global leader
in institutional digital-asset trading technology, where data
protection runs under two regimes at once: Data Protection Advisor
(DPA) under the revised Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection, and
Data Protection Officer (DPO) for the Polish entity under the
GDPR. Previously
Head of Security Advisory at Sportradar, CISO at Technicus and IT
Security Manager for Aviva's Group Platforms.
Now
Head of Data Governance and Compliance, Wyden AG
Strengthening the information security management framework and
overseeing ISO, ISAE and GDPR certification as the digital-asset
technology business scales. Data Protection Advisor (DPA) under the
revised Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP), and Data
Protection Officer (DPO) for the Polish entity under the
GDPR.
Assistant Professor, Kozminski University
Institute of Computer Science, and the Department of Management
in Networked and Digital Societies (MiNDS). Teaching within the
Management & Artificial Intelligence programme, and contributing
to the new Computer Science engineering curriculum.
Founder and Principal Investigator,
WarsawIQA Warsaw research community working on information technology,
artificial intelligence, security and human–computer
interaction.
Selected publications
Chlasta, K. (2026). The dual-use dilemma of generative artificial
intelligence in cybersecurity. Security and Defence
Quarterly, 52(4).
DOI
Chlasta, K., Struzik, P., & Wójcik, G. M. (2025). Enhancing dementia
and cognitive decline detection with large language models and speech
representation learning. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 19.
DOI
Chlasta, K., Sochaczewski, P., Wójcik, G. M., & Krejtz, I. (2023).
Neural Simulation Pipeline: Enabling container-based simulations
on-premise and in public clouds. Frontiers in
Neuroinformatics, 17.
DOI
Czeranowska, O., Chlasta, K., et al. (2023). Migrants vs. stayers in the
pandemic — a sentiment analysis of Twitter content. Telematics and
Informatics Reports, 10.
DOI
Chlasta, K., Wołk, K., & Krejtz, I. (2019). Automated speech-based
screening of depression using deep convolutional neural networks.
Procedia Computer Science, 164, 618–628. Cited 113 times.
DOI
“Automated Ownership Attribution of Cybersecurity Assets Using
FQDN-Based Machine Learning Models” — International Conference
on New and Emerging Technologies in Defence Education, Training and
Governance, War Studies University, Warsaw, May 2026.
“Generative AI in Cybersecurity: Emerging Threats, Defensive
Strategies, and Standards” — AI Frontiers in Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Protection, War Studies University, Warsaw, May 2025.
“Building Intelligent Cybersecurity Asset Management Framework
with Machine Learning” — The Hack Summit 2024, National
Stadium, Warsaw, October 2024.
“Building an Intelligent Address Validator with Machine
Learning” — Data Science Summit 2023, National Stadium,
Warsaw, November 2023.
“Liquid State Machine for Neuronal Computations on High
Performance Computing Systems” — International Conference on
Telemedicine & eHealth, Warsaw, September 2021.
Best presentation award — 1st place
Survey of Programming Languages, and Cloud Infrastructure and
Business IT Tools — Kozminski University, in English, since 2021
Introduction to Machine Learning, AI Solution Architectures, and
Introduction to Big Data — Polish-Japanese Academy of Information
Technology, 2019–2025
Business Intelligence Systems and Modern Database Systems —
University of Information Technology and Management, Olsztyn
Certified instruction
AWS Academy Certified Instructor and institutional point of
contact — around 200 students have completed Cloud Foundations
since 2024
Huawei ICT Academy Certified Instructor — led the first
Huawei cloud computing training group in Poland
Visiting professor at Montpellier Business School (2025) and
IADE-Universidade Europeia in Lisbon (2024)
Service to the field
Peer reviewer for ACM Multimedia, Scientific Reports (Nature
Portfolio) and Neurocomputing
Programme committee, 27th European Conference on Advances in
Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS), PeRS workshop
Expert reviewer of grant proposals for PFRON, and invited
contributor to the State of Warsaw AI Report
Awards
Aviva Global CIO AwardGlobal winner in the Outstanding Leadership category.
Rector's Special Award for Research ActivitiesKozminski University, awarded in 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026.
Best PhD StudentPolish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology.
Outstanding Academic Achievement AwardPolish Minister of Higher Education.
Receiving the award, London, 2017.Speaking at the ceremony.The 2017 winners.The venue.
Beyond work
Photography, and running. Fourteen marathon and ultra finishes since
2018 — Warsaw, Tel Aviv, Belfast, Amsterdam, Mexico City, Bruges, and
a personal best of 3:57:14 in Rome in 2025 — plus the Triada Ultra
50 km hill race.
Also skiing, and Linux since 2003. I read in Polish, English and
French.
Applied research & consulting — IT / AI / cybersecurity / data
protection. Data Protection Officer (DPO) under the GDPR;
Data Protection Advisor (DPA) under the Swiss FADP.
