Systems Engineer · Robotics Scientist · Founder
Anna Adamczyk
I develop systems for complex real-world challenges and design human-centered interfaces that make them understandable and usable.
Currently
Building infrastructure for personal applications where people have exclusive control over their data, yet can securely sync it with the people they care about, enabling a new generation of private apps.
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Complex systems,
made human.
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Human-Centered
Systems Engineering
The work that interests me most lies at the intersection of engineering, real-world constraints, and human use. Neither side is negotiable.
Systems operating in this space are inevitably complex.
Designing and building such systems means handling that complexity robustly while keeping them understandable and usable for the people who rely on them.
In robotics, distributed systems, and privacy infrastructure alike, the same principle holds:
Clarity belongs in the interface.
Selected Work
Spanning distributed field robotics and privacy-first consumer technology, my work focuses on building complex systems that must operate reliably under real-world constraints.
Nyskra Labs
Founder · EU · Since 2026
Creating the future of applications for the most personal parts of life while staying connected with the people who matter. Sync and sharing work while the server only sees encrypted blobs, never the data, in an offline-first design built for everyday reliability. People get true privacy without ever having to think about it.
- Human-centered privacy systems
- Cryptography is built in and complexity stays hidden
- Zero-knowledge client-side encryption
- Distributed client-side data analysis
- Multi-application synchronisation
- UX for offline-first distributed apps
Environmental Robotics
Envirobotics · EU · Since 2019
Environmental Robotics explores how robotic systems can become tools for environmental experts to study and protect natural ecosystems.
- Robotic systems as new tools for environmental experts
- Translating environmental challenges, such as lake monitoring, into missions and workflows that can be supported by robots
- Tailoring available robots into heterogeneous teams across air, water, and ground for multi-domain environmental missions
- Telepresence software enabling worldwide multi-user teleoperation of heterogeneous robot teams in real-world environments
- Accessible interfaces on everyday devices to lower the barrier to advanced robotics in environmental science
- Developing operational workflows for deploying robot teams effectively in real environmental fieldwork
- Internet-accessible mobile robotic field laboratories supporting efficient environmental monitoring missions
- Flagship system: SVAN
Flagship Envirobotics
SVAN: Synchronous Team-Robot Van
Technical University of Munich, Germany · 2020-2023
Project SVAN explored environmental monitoring using land, air, and underwater robots operated from a mobile van-based field lab.
- Mobile robot hub for rapid deployment of multi-domain robot teams
- Internet-connected hub for remote mission operation worldwide
- Experts can connect to SVan and its robot team using only a laptop and standard internet, no specialized control station required
- Hub providing robot logistics, communication and edge computation
- From concept to deployable prototype for real field conditions
Robotics Infrastructure
Flying Robots Lab & Mobile Systems Arena
Technical University of Munich, Germany · Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (TUM MIRMI) · 2020-2025
Conceptualized and built the Flying Robots Lab and its Mobile Systems Arena as lab manager, creating shared infrastructure for aerial, ground, and robot arm experiments across multiple labs.
- Laboratory management
- Multi-domain laboratory for robots in air, on ground, in water (planned), and robotic arms
- Motion tracking system, Networking and Safety
- Used for scientific experiments and demonstrations
- Shared robotics infrastructure between several research groups
Robotics Research
Human–Robot Systems Design & Multi-Robot Telepresence
Technical University of Munich, Germany · Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (TUM MIRMI) · 2019-2025
Research on distributed robotic systems and the human interfaces that allow people to perceive, control, and collaborate with them in real-world environments.
- Multi-modal feedback for telepresence with heterogeneous, geographically distributed robot teams
- Human-machine interaction in long-distance robotic telepresence
- Developing telepresence interfaces on everyday devices to lower the barrier to entry and broaden access to telerobotics
- Flexible integration of high-end haptic telepresence interfaces when needed, tailored to the specific telerobotic task
- Live demonstrations communicating robotics research to high-profile visitors and delegations
- Public demonstrations at trade fairs where visitors could operate our robot teams through the telerobotic system
M.Sc. Computational Engineering
Leibniz University Hannover, Germany · Until 2019
At the intersection of mathematics, physics and software. Applying mathematical modelling, algorithms and numerical methods to translate physical phenomena and systems into software, focusing on fluid dynamics, AI and robotics. Software becomes most interesting when it has to meet real-world constraints.
B.Sc. Civil & Environmental Engineering
Leibniz University Hannover, Germany · Until 2016
Studying the engineering structures that shape our world and the environmental systems they influence. This sparked my interest in how software is designed to control and interact with complex engineering systems.
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