curriculum vitae

General Information

Full Name Bartłomiej Mróz
Position Assistant Professor, Department of Multimedia Systems, Gdańsk University of Technology
Email bartlomiej.mroz@pg.edu.pl
Phone +48 58 347 16 36
ORCID 0000-0002-8983-9050
Languages Polish (native), English (fluent), German (basic)

Education

  • 10.2017-05.2023
    Ph.D. in Technical Informatics and Telecommunications (with distinction)
    Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland
    • Dissertation: Spatial audio for networked music performances
    • Supervisor: Prof. Bożena Kostek
  • 03.2016-09.2017
    M.Sc.Eng. in Electronics and Telecommunications (with distinction)
    Gdańsk University of Technology / Graz University of Technology (IEM), Austria (Erasmus+)
    • Specialization - Sound and Vision Engineering
    • Erasmus+ study period at Institut fur Elektronische Musik und Akustik (IEM) under Prof. Franz Zotter
  • 10.2012-02.2016
    B.Sc.Eng. in Electronics and Telecommunications (with distinction)
    Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, Gdańsk University of Technology / University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Slovenia (Erasmus+ / CEEPUS)
    • Specialization - Sound and Vision Engineering
    • Erasmus+/CEEPUS exchange period at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (09.2014-07.2015)
  • 2000-2012
    Piano and Pipe Organ
    Primary and Secondary Music School, Gdańsk, Poland

Employment

  • 06.2023-present
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Multimedia Systems, Gdańsk University of Technology
  • 04.2024-03.2026
    IT Specialist - ADMEDVOICE project
    Gdańsk University of Technology
  • 03-05.2023
    Teaching Assistant
    Department of Multimedia Systems, Gdańsk University of Technology
  • 11.2020-05.2023
    Senior Research Scientist
    Zylia Sp. z o.o., Poznań, Poland
  • 03.2022-05.2023
    IT Specialist - INFOLIGHT project
    Gdańsk University of Technology
  • 08.2015-08.2016
    IT ServiceDesk Specialist
    Hempel Paints, Gdańsk, Poland

Grants and Funding

  • 2026
    NCN Miniatura 10
    • Submitted. Pilot Subjective Quality Evaluation of Immersive Audio Formats in a Six-Degrees-of-Freedom Virtual Reality Environment.
  • 2024-2025
    IDUB Argentum
    • AI-based binaural to ambisonic signal transformation (no. 20/1/2023/IDUB/I3b/Ag)
    • Gdańsk University of Technology IDUB Excellence Initiative

Awards and Honours

  • 2025
    • Amazon Development Center Poland scholarship for research on spatial audio in VR
    • Dean's distinction (ETI Faculty, Gdańsk Tech) for supervising student team project: Procedural 3D weather and atmospheric effects using CUDA (Katana Poland)
  • 2024
    • 3rd prize, NTAV 2024 recording competition (Acoustic Recording) - PARTY for four hands by Mikołaj Sikała
  • 2023
    • Honorable Mention, S3DAPC 2023 - Deus Ex Machina by Jakub Neske (IEM / VDT / ORF)
  • 2022

Professional Activities

  • 2025-present
    Committee Member & Full Member
    Audio Engineering Society (Polish Section)
  • 09.2016-10.2025
    Student Member
    Audio Engineering Society
  • 2025-present
    Young Researcher Program (Młody Pracownik Nauki)
    Gdańsk University of Technology
    • Dean's Program for Young Researchers, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics
  • 2026-present
    Mentor, KNIDiO Student Research Club
    Gdańsk University of Technology
  • 09.2012-09.2023
    Baritone, Board Member / Treasurer
    Academic Choir of Gdańsk University of Technology
    • Board member / treasurer 2018-2022
  • 10.2017-09.2019
    Social Affairs Committee Member
    Gdańsk University of Technology Doctoral Student Council

Service

  • Scientific Committee & Recording Competition Jury
    • OSKA 2025 - IX Ogólnopolska Studencka Konferencja Akustyków, Warsaw
    • OSKA 2026 - X Ogólnopolska Studencka Konferencja Akustyków, Poznań
  • Recording Competition Jury
    • ISSET 2025 - 20th International Symposium on Sound Engineering and Tonmeistering, Poznań
  • Event Organisation
  • Ad-hoc Reviewer

Teaching

  • Courses (Gdańsk University of Technology)
    • Recording Technology I and II
    • Sound and Image Perception
    • Multimedia Technologies
    • Sound in Games and VR
    • Methods for Analysing Scientific Research Results
    • Student Team Research Projects
  • External Teaching
    • Guest sessions at Branżowe Centrum Umiejętności (BCU), Łódź - specialist course in spatial audio recording and Higher-Order Ambisonics (forthcoming)
    • Politechnika Talentów, Gdańsk University of Technology - 2023, 2024, 2025

Supervised Theses

  • 2026
    • B.Sc.Eng.: Piotr Krzyżanowski - Close-miking instruments using an Ambisonic microphone
  • 2025
    • M.Sc.Eng.: Paweł Perkowski - Study of the audiovisual correlation effect in a simulated 6DoF sound scene
    • M.Sc.Eng.: Jakub Czermiński - Generative deep neural network architectures for impulse response generation
    • B.Sc.Eng.: Filip Lewiński - Visualizer of an Ambisonic sound field
  • 2024
    • M.Sc.Eng.: Patryk Kosior - Comparison of spatial sound recording techniques using Ambisonics and object-based audio

Skills

  • Higher-Order Ambisonics, binaural audio, spatial audio perception
  • Psychoacoustic evaluation (MUSHRA, ABX, HRTF measurement)
  • Acoustic impulse response measurement
  • Statistics (ANOVA, linear mixed-effects models)
  • R, Python, MATLAB, LaTeX
  • Reaper, Wwise, Dante / Audio-over-IP

Certifications

  • 03-04.2023
    Dante Certified: Level 1, Level 2, Level 3 (2nd Ed.)
    Audinate
    • Prerequisites completed - Getting Started with Dante, Introduction to IP Networking for AV Systems, Principles of Digital Audio
  • 1.2021
    Machine Learning
    Stanford University / Coursera
  • 11.2021
    Designing, Running, and Analyzing Experiments
    UC San Diego / Coursera
  • 2.2015
    CCNA Routing and Switching - Introduction to Networks
    Cisco Networking Academy (University of Ljubljana)