Piotr Antonik was born in 1989 in Minsk, Belarus. He received his Master's degree and his PhD in physics from the Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, in 2013 and 2017, respectively. He is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the LMOPS Lab, CentraleSupélec, Metz, France. His research interests include spatial and time-delay photonic implementations of reservoir computing, FPGA programming, online learning methods, and applications of machine learning to biomedical imaging.