Michal Kosinski

Academia

2011 – now	Microsoft Research – Research Consultant, Machine Learning Group
2012	University of Namur - Visiting Lecturer, Department of Mathematics
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.
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 LikeAudience: explore the personality of your consumers Preference Tool: ultimate personality marketing tool
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).
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 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.
2001 – 2003	Founder and CEO, GryNet Gamers' Clubs Chain Founded and managed three Gamers' Clubs in Warsaw, with more than 60 workstations 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

2010 -	Boeing Company (US) Project aimed at understanding the role of social networks in the corporate environment.
2012 -	Arcadix GMBH (Switzerland) Developement of the Online Adaptive Testing Platform.
2012 -	TBG Digital (UK) Creation of the Global Facebook Marketing Report.
2011 -	Graduate Developement Programme, Cambridge University (UK) Developement of the on-line self-assesment tool aimed at identifying strenghts and weaknesses of the graduate students.

Journal / Conference Publications

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

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

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

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. 6th International Aaai 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]

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

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

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., Lambiotte, R., Kosinski, M., Stillwell, D. & Crowcroft, J. (2011) The Personality of Popular Facebook Users. ACM CSCW 2012. [Link]

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. [Link]

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. [Link]

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

Posters

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]

Teaching / Important Presentations / Non-journal publications

2012	Brave New World: The Future of Psychological Assessment Invited Lecture, Norwegian Psychological Association, Oslo
2012	Item Response Theory, Computerized Adaptive Testing, and On-line Testing Series of 4 day hands-on workshops in: Pracownia Testow Psychologicznych, Warsaw, Poland MIMOS, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Cambridge University
2012	Measuring the Performance of the Crowd (Crowd IQ) Invited Lecture, MIMOS, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2011	Behaviour-based personality assessment: YouAreWhatYouLike.com National Media Museum's Online Mirror
2011-2012	Global Facebook Advertising Report (TBG Digital) Q2 2011, Q3 2011, Q4 2011, Q1 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 Psychometrics Centre Seminar
2011	How are New Media challenging how we develop and deliver psychometric tests? Invited lecture, European Test Publisher Group Meeting in 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

Students

2012

Master's Theses (Psychology): Annalyn Ng

Undergraduate dissertations (Psychology): Poppy Noor, Olivia Lee

2011

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

Undergraduate dissertations (Psychology): Olivia Chausson, Poppy Noor, Olivia Lee, Eva Pappenheim, Fiona Chan

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

Media

2012	On Crowd IQ research: Die Macht der Masse, Microsoft-Forscher ermitteln Crowd-IQ
2011	On LikeAudience.com: Horizons, InsideFacebook.com
2011	Psychology Is the Solution The Psychologist, November 2011
2011	Personality, Marketing, and Facebook You and Yours, BBC4 16th of May 2011

Certificates / Technical skills

Qualified to administer psychological tests
Programming and database management (MySQL)
Advanced user of R, Matlab, SPSS/PASW, and MPlus statistical packages
Human Resources Management Certificate (2006)
Cisco Certified Network Associate Certificate (2007)
Planet Voice over Internet Protocol Specialist (2004)
Graphical Suites including Adobe Photoshop CE, Corel Draw
GRE Quantitative Score: 790/800

Languages

fluent English / native Polish / basic German / basic Russian