The Flogiston Chemical Student Research Group, operating at the Faculty of Chemistry of the Warsaw University of Technology, conducts activities in the field of materials chemistry and modern chemical technologies. One of the team’s key initiatives is the organisation of the YoungChem International Scientific Conference, now in its nineteenth edition. In parallel, the students are carrying out the PolyWIN research project, which focuses on developing a new polyester.
The Drone Section operating within the Robotics Student Research Group at the Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering of Warsaw University of Technology has been active since 2023 and has quickly built a strong interdisciplinary team of around 30 members.
Students from the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science of WUT made a strong impact at this year’s edition of the global StarkHacks hackathon in the US. The HardCounter team consisted of Piotr Czechowski, Svetlana Gridina, Mateusz Błażejowski and Denis Lisovytskiy, while the CompMech team was formed by Aleksander Jeżowski and Rafał Lasota. HardCounter won 1st place in the main Microsoft track, AI & Automation, and 2nd place in the Best Use of Viam category for the project “RackMedic” (DataCenter Automata). CompMech took 2nd place in the Ford track with their project “Zero Depth”.
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate data for training subsequent, more advanced models. They can learn from one another through hidden signal transfer, but they can also pass on undesirable features that persist even when the training data has been cleaned of the original attribute. These issues are the focus of the co‑authors of a paper published in Nature, including Anna Sztyber‑Betley, PhD, from the Faculty of Mechatronics of the Warsaw University of Technology.
The CombAIns team, composed of students from the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science of Warsaw University of Technology, has achieved another success. During the international HackCarpathia 2026 hackathon, the team won in the MedTech category and ultimately took first place in the entire competition. Our students created the project “Be Ready”, an educational application focused on women’s health prevention. This is yet another strong performance by CombAIns at Hack Carpathia.
How can the high effectiveness of industrial oil additives be combined with environmental responsibility? This question is addressed in the research of Dr Sabina Wilkanowicz, conducted at the interface of science and industry. The author, affiliated with the Płock Branch of the Warsaw University of Technology, and the company Pachemtech, has developed and tested environmentally-friendly additives for crude oil extraction that not only effectively separate oil-water emulsions but also reduce corrosion and meet environmental requirements for particularly sensitive areas such as marine waters.
