About me

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Damien in the mountain

Hello! I am Damien Wojtowicz. Welcome to this page dedicated to my professional background.

Currently an R&D Engineer at EasyMile, I develop software allowing autonomous vehicles to navigate their environment. This is a new step in my career, which I cannot imagine pursuing without continuing to share knowledge.

This desire is deeply rooted in me, from the private tutoring I gave as a student to the internships I carried out in research laboratories. Holding a Master's degree specialized in Data Management and AI, I started as a Data Scientist contractor at Airbus. Here again, discovery and knowledge sharing were central to my activities, because a good Data Scientist must clearly present their method and results. The satisfaction of my clients, whom I "haunted" with my charts (to use their own words), testifies my ability to convey technical and abstract information in a clear and impactful way.

The, I joined the world of research, first as a PhD student at IRIT, later as a postdoctoral researcher at LAAS-CNRS. During these five years, I taught at Paul Sabatier University and INSA Toulouse. With over 400 hours of lectures delivered (Bachelor's, Master's, and Engineering cycles), I trained and mentored numerous students with varied profiles. While my preferred field remains databases, I also taught AI, algorithmics, and programming. These topics are intimately linked.

These teaching activities were carried out in parallel with my research work. I dedicated my PhD thesis to the optimization of "multi-cloud" SQL queries, which query data distributed across different cloud providers. The challenge consisted of combining execution speed and cost control. Throughout this research, I developed a complete software solution to optimize these queries and coordinate their execution, including a SQL compiler, an optimization engine, a re-optimization engine based on a multi-agent system, as well as a cost model based on machine learning. My postdoctoral work, also focused on optimization, was dedicated to designing software for planning satellite observations, within the framework of an industrial partnership.

If you are interested by my research, you can find all the articles I have co-authored on the HAL open archives. As a bonus, you will also find an article from my Master's degree, dedicated to another passion of mine: astronomy.