Academic Achievements

• 2003 – PhD

•     Cracow University of Technology, Doctor of Technical Sciences (environmental engineering)
•     Thesis topic: "Spatio-temporal structure of atmospheric precipitation in a mountain catchment"

Professional Experience

•     From 2021 – assistant, Jagiellonian University
•     1992-2021 – assistant-adjunct, Cracow University of Technology
•     1999-2002 – manager, World Bank Project Coordination Office

Scientific Interests

•     Data science
•     Flood marks
•     Machine learning in earth sciences
•     Spatial information systems

Current Research

Remote sensing methods in the study of landslides in the Gorce Mountains (POB Anthropocene 2022-2023) https://anthropocene.id.uj.edu.pl/

Selected Scientific Publications

• Szczepanek, R., 2023. A Deep Learning Model of Spatial Distance and Named Entity Recognition (SD-NER) for Flood Mark Text Classification. Water, 15(6): 1197. doi.org/10.3390/w15061197
• Szczepanek, R., 2022. Daily Streamflow Forecasting in Mountainous Catchment Using XGBoost, LightGBM and CatBoost. Hydrology, 9(12): 226. doi.org/10.3390/hydrology9120226
• Szczepanek, R., Toś, C. & Bodziony, M., 2022. Temporary flood marks proposal: What we learned after losing the baroque artifact from Cracow, Poland. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 74: 102942. doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.102942
• Szczepanek, R., 2020. Analysis of pedestrian activity before and during COVID-19 lockdown, using webcam time-lapse from Cracow and machine learning. PeerJ, 8: e10132. doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10132
• Kędra, M. & Szczepanek, R., 2019. Land cover transitions and changing climate conditions in the Polish Carpathians: Assessment and management implications. Land Degradation & Development, 30(9): 1040-1051. doi.org/10.1002/ldr.3291

International Experience

•     2013-2014 – post-doc, University of Cincinnati, USA
•     2011 – GIS consultant at the World Agroforestry Centre, Nairobi, Kenya
•     1999-2001 – consultant to the World Bank on a flood recovery project
•     1993 – studies at the Royal University of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Membership in Scientific Organizations

•     Polish Association for Spatial Information
•     Association of Polish Hydrologists
•     The Open Source Geospatial Foundation
•     The OpenMI Association

Editorial Membership in Scientific Journals

•     Hydrology, Academic Editor
•     Quaternary, Topical Advisory Panel Member