Slawomir K. Tadeja is a postdoctoral research associate in the Cyber-Human Lab belonging to the Institute of Manufacturing at the University of Cambridge. Previously, he had undertaken his PhD studies in the Engineering Department (Cambridge), working on immersive visual analytics in Virtual Reality (VR), which he applied in various branches of engineering. Here, he worked on designing, implementing, and testing VR tools for turbomachinery design (Aerospace and Aeronautics), visualizing complex multidimensional data (Aerospace and Aeronautics), and capturing information from photo-realistic models (Civil Engineering). Sławomir works across domains trying to understand, design, and prototype solutions where cyber-physical systems may bring the most benefits, including manufacturing, digital twinning, robotics and automata, rehabilitation and medicine, and other engineering use case scenarios. For almost a year, he was also a research associate within the DigiTwin initiative, researching the design methodologies for digital twinning.
In addition, Sławomir also served as a research assistant at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, where he completed his undergraduate and graduate-level studies in Computer Science. His Master’s thesis concerned Monte Carlo simulations of novel, nuclear physics-based methods for detecting hazardous substances underwater. While a student, Sławomir undertook various internships and work placements, including CERN, European Space Agency, Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS in Kraków, and Microsoft Dublin.
Sławomir also co-founded the Immersive Toolbox startup, focusing on human-centred Augmented Reality (AR) solutions for the industry. The startup received awards and funds from Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and Lodz Special Economic Zone (LSSE). In addition, the work carried out in the company has led to two scientific publications at IEEE VR 2022 workshops, one of which describes a mobile, cross-platform AR solution developed in collaboration with experts from Bosch, Poland. The startup was acquired in 2022.
Sławomir’s work has been published in various scientific venues such as AIAA Journal, AIAA SciTech (Design Engineering Tech. Committee Best Presentation award), Aeronaut. J., IEEE IROS, ACM CHI, IEEE ISMAR, IEEE VRW, IEEE CG&A, Multimed. Tools. Appl., IEEE Trans. on Games, Computers & Graphics, and others.
Sławomir is the recipient of the Institute of Manufacturing (IfM) 2023 Postdoctoral Award for Excellence in Research and served as a senior author of the ISMAR 2024 Best Journal Paper Honorable Mention paper concerning AR deployment in industrial settings.
