CV

Education

• PhD in Computer Science, University of Essex, 2024
  • Supervisors: Dr Spyridon Samothrakis and Prof. Paul Clarke
• MSc in AI, University of Essex, 2020
  • Supervisors: Dr Ana Matran-Fernandez and Prof. Luca Citi
• BEng in Computer Science, West Pomeranian University of Technology, 2014
  • Supervisor: Prof. Krzysztof Malecki

Work experience

• CHAI Postdoctoral Schoral, 2024-
  • Causality in Helthcare AI Hub (CHAI), UK
• Research Associate in Causal AI, 2024-
  • School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh
  • Supervisor: Prof. Sotirios Tsaftaris
• Senior Research Officer, 2023-2024
  • Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex
  • Supervisors: Dr Spyridon Samothrakis and Prof. Paul Clarke
• Software Developer, 2014-2020
  • Oxford Computer Consultants (now System C)
• Junior Software Developer, 2013-2014
  • Autocomp Management

Skills

• Causality
  • Causal discovery
  • Causal effect estimation
  • Observational data
• Machine learning
  • Domain/out-of-distribution generalisation
  • Hyperparameter/model selection
  • Benchmarking

Publications

Causal Ordering for Structure Learning from Time Series

Sanchez, P., Machlanski, D., McDonagh, S., & Tsaftaris, S. A. (2025). "Causal Ordering for Structure Learning from Time Series." Transactions on Machine Learning Research.

Rethinking Chronological Causal Discovery with Signal Processing

Butler, K., Machlanski, D., Dimitrakopoulos, P., & Tsaftaris, S. A. (2025, November). "Rethinking Chronological Causal Discovery with Signal Processing." In 2025 59th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Robustness of Algorithms for Causal Structure Learning to Hyperparameter Choice

Machlanski, D., Samothrakis, S., Clarke, P. (2024). "Robustness of Algorithms for Causal Structure Learning to Hyperparameter Choice." Proceedings of the Third Conference on Causal Learning and Reasoning. PMLR 236:703-739.

Undersmoothing Causal Estimators With Generative Trees

Machlanski, D., Samothrakis, S., Clarke, P. (2024). "Undersmoothing Causal Estimators With Generative Trees." IEEE Access. vol. 12, pp. 38562-38574.

Service and leadership

• PhD co-supervisor
• Reviewer for: Nature Communications, AISTATS, ICLR, PLOS One
• Reviewing Editor with Springer Nature