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JanBarganowski

ML engineer·Data scientist·Music producer

MSDS @ Columbia · New York City · Warsaw

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Jan Barganowski at Sopot Beach
J.B. — Sopot Beach, 2024Vol. I
Jan Barganowski in San Francisco
J.B. — San Francisco, 2026Vol. II
Hello
01 — About

About

Polish kid who got into med school, quit before the first class, did a business degree instead, and somehow landed on machine learning — while making house and techno records the whole way through.

Currently at Columbia finishing an MSDS, getting properly nerdy about deep learning, and co-authoring papers on whether birdwatching is a valid psychiatric intervention. Turns out it is.

The ML work and the music work are the same work, most days. I just don't tell people that at parties.

02 — Selected Work

Projects

Two pieces worth showing.
The rest lives on GitHub.

No. 01
Lectorius← Library

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrating · Ch. 1
Hold to Ask

Lectorius

Data pipeline + app that turns EPUB files into interactive audiobooks using ElevenLabs TTS + pgvector RAG for push-to-talk Q&A with the AI narrator.

TypeScriptPythonSvelteKitSupabasepgvectorElevenLabsOpenAIAnthropic
No. 02
GSOAT74 songs · 387 votes
Add Song
Leaderboard · Top tracks
01

Strangers In The Night

Frank Sinatra

72%
02

Faith

The Weeknd

68%
03

If I Can Dream

Elvis Presley

64%
04

Heaven Takes You Home

Swedish House Mafia

59%

GSOAT

Online voting app to rank the greatest songs of all time using the Spotify API.

SvelteKitTypeScriptSpotify API
03 — Toolkit

Stack

Languages
PythonTypeScriptSQLR
ML & Data
PyTorchpgvector
Web
SvelteKit
Infra
DockerAWSGCPGit
Viz
Plotlyggplot2
Also speaks
ENPLDEES
04 — Published

Research

Psychiatric data & evaluation work
done alongside the ML track.

2026
Co-authorData analysis & visualization

Putting the nationwide reform into practice: a pre-post evaluation of the Community Mental Health Center model in two counties

Advances in Psychiatry and Neurology, 35(2)

Evaluated the first year of Poland's shift from hospital-based to community-based psychiatric care in Malbork and Sztum counties, comparing 2023 vs 2024 administrative records. First-time patients rose 49.8% and psychotherapy sessions 230.5% — evidence the decentralized model expands access where it gets rolled out.

Natalia W. Lipińska-Kandarian · Jan G. Barganowski · Eryk Kandarian · Sławomir Murawiec

2025
Co-authorData analysis & visualization

The impact of therapeutic ornithology on mental well-being in psychiatric long-term care and psychiatric day clinic patients: a quantitative and qualitative study

Personalized Psychiatry, 4: e52–e70

Ran structured birdwatching sessions with schizophrenia long-term-care patients and psychiatric day-clinic patients (N=29), measuring mood before and after. Statistically significant improvements in general well-being (p=0.002) and energy (p=0.009) in both settings — anxiety and loneliness dropped hardest in the schizophrenia group.

Sławomir Murawiec · Monika Łukiańska · Jan G. Barganowski

05 — B-Side

Music

Running a music artist project, Jan Barg. House and techno records, cut between lectures.

1M+

Spotify streams

Editorial placements

20+

Shows played

JB
  • Collaborated with Öwnboss
  • Produced for Polish pop artists
  • Played ING Silesia Beats & Boiler Rush
06 — Trajectory

Timeline

Sep 2019 – May 2022

IB Diploma Program

IB World School No. 1309

Graduated 44/45, majoring in Biology, Chemistry, and English. 7/7 in all taken subjects.

Jul 2022Milestone

Three acceptances, one pick

Accepted to Warsaw Medical University, Warsaw School of Economics, and Kozminski — chose Kozminski.

Oct 2022 – Jun 2025

BS Management & Artificial Intelligence

Kozminski University

Ranked #1 business school in CEE (Financial Times). 3× Rector's Scholarship recipient.

Oct 2024 – Jun 2026

President

Kozminski AI Club

Organized 2 conferences and multiple workshops with 300+ attendees, including speakers from Samsung R&D and Microsoft.

Nov 2024 – Feb 2025

Research Assistant

MedFake

Top-performing RA on the team — recruited 80+ study participants.

Mar 2025Milestone

Four offers, one destination

Accepted to Columbia, Oxford, Vanderbilt, and Berklee — picked Columbia for the deep-learning track and the city.

Mar 2025 – May 2025

IT Intern

Procter & Gamble

Sep 2025 – Dec 2026

MS Data Science

Columbia University

Focus: deep learning, algorithms, and databases.

Since Mar 2026

Mentor

Our Future Foundation

Helping Polish high-school students from underprivileged backgrounds get into their dream universities.

07 — Reach out

Say hi

Email's fastest. Also open to collaborations on ML, music, and anything where the two bleed into each other.