Michal Kosinski

Academia

2011 – now	Microsoft Research – Research Consultant, Machine Learning Group
2009 – now	University of Cambridge (UK) – PhD in Social Psychology Research project funded by Boeing aimed at understanding the role of Online Social Networks in Enterprise 2.0 environment.
2012	University of Namur - Visiting Lecturer, Department of Mathematics
2008 – 2009	University of Cambridge (UK) – MPhil in Psychometrics (Distinction) Master’s Thesis (First-class honours): Comparison of accuracy of traditional and polynomial Item Response Theory models in personality assessment
2002 – 2008	Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities (PL) – MSc in Psychology (Distinction) Master’s Thesis (first-class honours) “Investigation of bidder’s behaviour in the Internet Auctions and effect of Buy It Now (fixed) price on closing price.” Minors in: Negotiations and Mediations, Consumer Behaviour & Marketing

Work Experience

2010 - now	Director of Operations, Cambridge University Psychometrics Centre Supervises daily operations of the Centre and many of its key projects, including: Concerto: Online Adaptive Testing Platform myPersonality Project: The biggest ever collected database of psycho-demographic profiles Preference Tool: ultimate personality marketing tool
2012-2013	Malaysian National R&D Centre (MIMOS) - Scientific Advisor Developing an online adaptive testing platfom for Malaysian Higher Education Entrance Exam.
2003 – 2007	Founder and CEO, qlSys ICT Consulting and Support Managed start-up and operations of independent firm specializing in the delivery of full-range Information and Communication Technology consulting; outsourcing of technical support and webhosting services; designing on-line software and websites. Engaged and acclaimed by demanding clients including Ministry of Agriculture and Polish National Telekom. Provided leadership to more than 15 employees and reached annual revenue of over £500,000. Gained experience in a wide array of subjects including: team and project management, on-line systems and website development, IT infrastructure (design and technical support), servers and hosting administration, business related law, accountancy. Sold the company in 2007 in order to focus on the academic career.
2003 – 2006	Chief Brand Officer, IMPET Computers Ltd. Introduced the first Integrated Internet Telephony System to Polish market; Acquired and supervised network of more than 2,500 sales consultants across Central Europe; Developed and delivered training courses for sales & technical consultants and customers; Designed product websites, packaging, manuals, and other related publications; Designed an online platform used to manage sales network, provide technical and warranty support, and sell prepaid cards; Represented the company at CeBIT Hannover (’04, ’05, ’06), VON San Jose (’06), Microsoft and Action Road Show (45 events in ’05 and ’06); Co-supervised multiple other product lines, including Grandstream (SOHO VoIP products), and IBOX (computer accessories).
2001 – 2003	Founder and CEO, GryNet Gamers' Clubs Chain Founded and managed three Gamers' Clubs in Warsaw, with more than 60 gamestations and 8 employees. Devised a unique gamers-oriented business model that combined 24/7 opening time, performance computers, highest quality broadband and lowest price on the market.

Grants Received

2012 - 2013	Standard Chartered Bank (Singapore) Developement of the online recruitment test battery
2010 - 2013	Boeing Company (US) Project aimed at understanding the role of social networks in the corporate environment.
2012 - 2014	Arcadix GMBH (Switzerland) Development of the Online Adaptive Testing Platform.
2011 - 2012	TBG Digital (UK) Global Facebook Marketing Report, 8 quaterly issues.
2011 - 2012	Graduate Development Programme, Cambridge University (UK) Development of the on-line self-assessment tool aimed at identifying strengths and weaknesses of the graduate students.

Journal / Conference Publications

Kosinski, M., Stillwell, D.J., Graepel, T. (2013) Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). [View paper]

Markovikj, D., Gievska, S., Kosinski, M., Stillwell, D.J. (2013) Mining Facebook Data for Predictive Personality Modeling. The 7th International AIII Conference On Weblogs And Social Media (ICWSM 2013)

Bi, B., Shokouhi, M., Kosinski, M., Graepel, T. (2013) A Young Liberal Christian Woman Is Searching The Web. 23rd International World-Wide Web Conference (WWW 2013)

Celli, F., Pianesi, F., Stillwell, D.S., Kosinski, M. (2013) Workshop on Computational Personality Recognition (Shared Task). The 7th International AAAI Conference On Weblogs And Social Media (Boston)

Schwartz, H. A., Eichstaedt, J.C., Kern, M.L., Dziurzynski, L., Ramones, S.M., Agrawal, M. Shah, A., Kosinski, M., Stillwell, D.S., Seligman, M.E.P, Ungar, L.H. (2013) Personality, Gender, and Age in the Language of Social Media: The Open-Vocabulary Approach. PLOS ONE

Rentfrow, P. J., Gosling, S. D., Stillwell, D. J., Kosinski, M., & Potter, J. (invited resubmission). The construct validity of state-level personality traits: A multimethod, multitrait, and multisample analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Friggeri, A., Lambiotte, R., Kosinski, M., Fleury E. (2012) Psychological Aspects of Social Communities. SocialCom (Amsterdam)

Stillwell, D.J., Kosinski, M. (2012) myPersonality project: Example of successful utilization of online social networks for large-scale social research. Mobile systems for Computational Social Science (Low Wood Bay)

Kimura, T., Han, K., Kosinski, M., Shoijma, K., Magis, D. (2012) A framework and approaches to develop an in-house CAT with freeware and open source software. IACAT (Sydney)

Kosinski, M., Stillwell, D.J., Kohli, P., Bachrach, Y., Graepel, T. (2012) Personality and Website Choice. Web Science (Evanston, IL) [View Paper]

Kosinski, M., Bachrach, Y., Kasneci, G., Van Gael, J., Graepel, T. (2012) Crowd IQ: Measuring the Intelligence of Crowdsourcing Platforms. Web Science (Evanston, IL) [View Paper]

Bachrach, Y., Kosinski, M., Graepel, T., Kohli, P., Stillwell, D.J., (2012) Personality and Patterns of Facebook Usage. Web Science (Evanston, IL) [View Paper]

Rentfrow, J., Goldberg L.R., Stillwell, D.J., Kosinski M., Gosling, S.D., & Levitin D.J. (in press) The Song Remains the Same: A Replication and Extension of the MUSIC Model. Music Perception.

Quercia, D., Las Casas, D., Pesce, J.P., Stillwell, D., Kosinski, M., Almeida, V., Crowcroft, J. (2012) Facebook and Privacy: The Balancing Act of Personality, Gender, and Relationship Currency. Conference On Weblogs And Social Media (Dublin, June)

Kern, M.L., Schwartz, H.A., Eichstaedt, J.C., Dziurzynski, L., Ramones, S.M., Kosinski, M., Stillwell, D.J., Ungar, L.H. (2012) Personality and Word Use: Positive and Negative Expressions of the Self Through Social Media. European Positive Psychology Conference (Moscow, June).

Bachrach, Y., Graepel, T., Kasneci, G., Kosinski*, M., Van Gael, J. (2012) Crowd IQ - Aggregating Opinions to Boost Performance. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (Valencia, June). [*presenting author / alphabetical order] [View Paper / View Poster]

Wang, N., Kosinski, M., Stillwell, D.J. & Rust, J. (2012) Can well-being be measured using Facebook status updates? Validation of Facebook’s Gross National Happiness Index. Social Indicators Research. [View Paper]

Crosier, B., Webster, G., Stillwell, D., Kosinski, M., Orozco, S.T., Novell, C. (2012) Personality Shapes Real-World and Online Social Networks. Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) in San Diego, CA

Quercia, D., Lambiotte, R., Kosinski, M., Stillwell, D. & Crowcroft, J. (2012) The Personality of Popular Facebook Users. ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW2012). [View Paper]

Kosinski, M., Rust, J. (2011) The Development of Concerto v2.0: An Open Source Online Adaptive Testing Platform. International Association for Computerized and Adaptive Testing (IACAT), Pacific Grove, CA.

Kosinski, M., Rust, J. (2011) The Development of Concerto v1.0: An Open Source Online Adaptive Testing Platform. International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS), Hong Kong.

Sun, L., Kosinski, M., Stillwell, D., Rust, J. (2011) On the Test-Retest Reliability of the 100-item IPIP Scales: Differential Temporal Stability of the Big Five Personality Traits. International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS), Hong Kong.

Quercia, D., Kosinski, M., Stillwell, D., Crowcroft, J. (2011) Our Twitter Profiles, Our Selves: Predicting Personality with Twitter. Third IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom2011), Boston, USA. [View Paper]

Kosinski, M. (2009) Application of the dominance and ideal point IRT models to the Extraversion scale from the IPIP Big Five Personality Questionnaire. Mphil Dissertation, Cambridge University. [View Paper]

Kosinski, M. (2009) Protocol validity indices in the sample from an on-line personality questionnaire. Technical Report, Cambridge University. [View Paper]

Posters

Meade, A. W., Foster Thompson, L., Kuo, E.W., Kosinski, M., Stillwell, D.J. (2013) The Influence of Culture and Human Development on Personality Measurement. 16th congress of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (Munster)

Rife, S.C., Mickelson K.D., Kosinski, M., Stillwell, D.J. (2012) Facebook Networks and Population Parameters. International Association for Relationship Research, Chicago. [View Poster]

Sun, L., Cek, I., Spindler, S. A. K., Stillwell, D., Kosinski, M., Rust, J. (2011) Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the 100-item IPIP measure on a large Facebook dataset. International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS), Hong Kong.

Stillwell, D.J., Kosinski, M., & Tunney, R.J. (2011) You are what you like. Research Showcase finalist, Nottingham University. [View Poster]

Online publications

2012	National Media Museum's Online Mirror [Read: The Guardian, ZDNet, DesignWeek]
2011	YouAreWhatYouLike.com
2011	Preference Tool (Like Audience) [Read: Horizons, InsideFacebook.com]

Important Presentations / Non-journal publications

2013.04	Keynote: Privacy and identity in the digital environment Identity \| Talk in the tower
2013.04	Privacy in the digital environment: Presentation at the European Parliament Organized by European Internet Foundation
2013.03	Facebook Likes show big data brings big responsibility Financial Times (15/03/2013)
2013.04	Job market in the Global Village Keynote speech, Cut-e HR conference, Oslo
2013.03	Recruitment, Job Market and Social Media Series of Lectures organized by Randstad and Cut-e (Malmo, Goteborg, Stockholm)
2012.11	New Frontiers in Psychometrics Invited Talk, The Psychometrics Forum
2012.11	Psychometrics of Tomorrow: Predicting Personality in the Cyber Space Invited Lecture; Universidade Sao Francisco, Brazi
2012.10	Exposed in the Cyber Space Cambridge Festival of Ideas, Lecture
2012.10	Are we being sold online? [Listen To, Read] Cambridge Festival of Ideas, Panel discussion; with Prof. William Dutton, Mariam Cook, and Nick Pickels
2012.10	The Future of the Job Market [Watch, Read, Read] Keynote, cut-e breakfast seminar, Stockholm
2012.09	The Future of Psychometrics [Read] Invited Lecture; University of Post and Telecommunication, Beijing
2012.09	Open Source in Computerized Adaptive Testing Invited Lecture; TAO Days at eATP2012, Berlin
2012.09	Crowdsourcing for Engineering Innovation Boeing - University of Cambridge Research Meeting, Seattle
2012.08	Developing an Adaptive Test with Concerto – an Open-source Adaptive Testing Platform Symposium; IACAT 2012, Sydney
2012	Modern Methods for Evaluation and Testing of Employees [Watch] [Read] Keynote; HR Conference, Sofia
2012	Predicting Personality Based on On-line Behaviour Presentation; Microsoft Technical Advisory Board Meeting, Cambridge
2012	Cloud computing and how it affects testing Invited Lecture; European Test Publishers Group Meeting in Stockholm
2012	Brave New World: The Future of Psychological Assessment [Read] Invited Lecture; Norwegian Psychological Association, Oslo
2012	Item Response Theory, Computerized Adaptive Testing, and On-line Testing 3 day hands-on workshop, delivered in: Cambridge University (2011, 2012, 2013) Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil (2012) Normal University, Beijing, China (2012) Webster University, Vienna, Austria (2012) OS Bulgaria, Sofia (2012) The Psychological Test Laboratory, Warsaw, Poland (2012) MIMOS, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2011)
2012	Measuring the Performance of the Crowd (Crowd IQ) Invited Lecture; MIMOS, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2011-2012	Global Facebook Advertising Report (TBG Digital) Q2 2011, Q3 2011, Q4 2011, Q1 2012, Q2 2012
2011	Social Network Metrics for Enterprises Presentation to Dr. John J. Tracy, CTO of Boeing
2011	Graph Personality and the Personality of the Graph [Watch] Psychometrics Centre Seminar
2011	How are New Media challenging how we develop and deliver psychometric tests? Invited lecture; European Test Publisher Group Meeting, Budapest
2010	Polish Edition of the MMPI-2 inventory Statistical consultancy
2009	Poseurs, tricksters and loafers - how to recognize them among your respondents? Invited seminar; Microsoft Research Lab, Cambridge

Professional Affiliations

2013	Jury Member, THETA award for Person-Job-Fit Innovation
2013	Programme Committee Member , 7th International AAAI Conference On Weblogs And Social Media
2013	Programme Committee Member , 1st Workshop on Emotions and Personality in Personalized Services (EMPIRE 2013) in 21st International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization
2013-	Reviewer for: PLOS ONE, ICWSM

Amazing Students

2013

Research Intern: Jennifer Hampel

2012

Research Intern: Maria Rafalak

Master's Thesis (Psychology): Annalyn Ng

Undergraduate dissertation (Psychology): Sandra Matz (distinction, 1st best score that year), Poppy Noor (distinction, 2nd best paper)

2011

Master's Thesis (Psychology): Ning Wang, Ivanka Bloom, Iva Cek, Tanvi Chaturvedi, Sabah Merchant

Undergraduate dissertation (Psychology): Eva Pappenheim (best paper that year), Kaori Takenaka (1st), Olivia Chausson, Poppy Noor, Olivia Lee, Fiona Chan

Supervision (Social Psychology): Helen Bromhead, Adam Higginson, Ruth Plackett

Media

2013	BBC World Service, In the Balance 12th April 2013
2013	Massive press and TV coverage of the PNAS paper
2012	Crowd IQ: New Scientist, Die Macht der Masse, Microsoft-Forscher ermitteln Crowd-IQ
2011	Psychology Is the Solution The Psychologist, November 2011
2011	Personality, Marketing, and Facebook BBC4 You and Yours, 16th of May 2011

Certificates / Technical skills

Qualified to administer psychological tests
Programming, statistical software, and databases (R, MySQL, Matlab, SPSS, Mplus)
Graphical Suites including Adobe Photoshop CE, Corel Draw
Human Resources Management Certificate (2006)
Cisco Certified Network Associate Certificate (2007)
Voice over Internet Protocol Specialist (2004)

Languages

fluent English / native Polish / basic German / basic Russian