Dr Slawomir K. Tadeja is a Postdoctoral Associate with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Here, he works on research and innovation in learning technologies for manufacturing education and workforce development within the MIT Learning Engineering and Practice Group (LEAP Group). He also serves as an External Collaborator with the Cyber-Human Lab (CHL).
Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the CHL. Previously, he undertook his PhD studies in the Engineering Department (Cambridge), working on immersive visual analytics in Virtual Reality (VR), which he applied across 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 to understand, design, and prototype solutions where cyber-physical systems can deliver the greatest 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 at CERN, the European Space Agency, the 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). The startup was acquired in 2022.
Sławomir’s work has been published in various scientific venues, including the AIAA Journal, AIAA SciTech (Design Engineering Tech. Committee Best Presentation award), and Aeronaut. J., IEEE IROS, ACM CHI, IEEE ISMAR, IEEE VRW, IEEE CG&A, Multimed. Tools. Appl., IEEE Trans. on Games, Computers & Graphics, and others. He is the recipient of the Institute of Manufacturing (IfM) 2023 Postdoctoral Award for Excellence in Research and a senior author of the ISMAR 2024 Best Journal Paper Honorable Mention paper on AR deployment in industrial settings.
