Award Ceremony: Robert J. Glushko Award for the Best Thesis in Cognitive Science

10 03 2026

Each year, the CogSci Didactic Council presents the Robert J. Glushko Award for the best master’s and bachelor’s thesis. This year’s award ceremony took place on February 23 and honoured both this year’s and last year’s laureates. The laureates, their supervisors, and the jury members were invited.

Prof. Monika Płużyczka from the Award Committee presented the awards, together with Prof. Ewa Haman and Dr Natalia Karczewska, who served on the jury. Prof. Robert J. Glushko, the founder of the award, joined the ceremony online and congratulated the laureates.

🥳 We join Prof. Glushko in congratulating our graduates 🥳

Sebastian Kamiński receiving the Robert J. Glushko Award for the best MA thesis — **Sebastian Kamiński** receiving the Robert J. Glushko Award for the best MA thesis in 2023/24.

Maciej Ołdakowski receiving the Robert J. Glushko Award for the best MA thesis — **Maciej Ołdakowski** receiving the Robert J. Glushko Award for the best MA thesis in 2024/25.

2023/24 awards:

Wojciech Stempniak for the best BA thesis
“The dependency structure of coordination: an analysis of Universal Dependencies corpora”,
supervisor: Prof. Adam Przepiórkowski

Sebastian Kamiński for the best MA thesis
“Comparison of linguistic characteristics of lies detected by humans and machine models”,
supervisor: Dr Justyna Sarzyńska-Wawer

2024/25 awards:

Jakub Kosterna for the best BA thesis
“How LLMs Handle Quantifier Scope Disambiguation: Examining World Knowledge in Standard and KG-Enhanced Models”,
supervisor: Prof. Justyna Grudzińska-Zawadowska

Maciej Ołdakowski for the best MA thesis
“Grandiose Narcissism Detection in Short Social Media Posts Using Large Language Models”,
supervisor: Prof. Marcin Zajenkowski