Radim Špetlík and his teammates won the Chaos Neurathon 2023

Radim Špetlík and his teammates won the Chaos Neurathon 2023
Ph.D. students Radim Špetlík from the Department of Cybernetics and Michal Kučera from the Department of Computer Graphics and Interaction and Open Computer Science student David Kunz won the Chaos Neurathon 2023, their team named “All You Need Is All You Need”. This competition, the first of its kind, focused on using artificial intelligence in …read more

46th Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision Colloquium

46th Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision Colloquium
On December 7th the Department of Cybernetics hosted the 46th Colloquium in Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision. It is a biannual event with a rich tradition dating back to 1998. This esteemed gathering is jointly organized by the Visual Recognition Group and enjoys the generous support of the Czech Pattern Recognition Society (CPRS). The technical program is curated …read more

Succes in the Czech Science Foundation GAČR competition for three projects from our department

Succes in the Czech Science Foundation GAČR competition for three projects from our department
The Czech Science Foundation (GACR), the largest Czech grant funding provider for basic research, will fund 357 scientific projects being launched next year in the Standard Projects and POSTDOC INDIVIDUAL FELLOWSHIP grant schemes. These projects will receive CZK 2,75 billion over the next 3 years. The projects receiving funding cover a wide range of basic …read more

Valentin Marcel became two times world champion in Chessboxing

Valentin Marcel became two times world champion in Chessboxing
Congratulations to Valentin Marcel from the Humanoid group, who won his second consecutive world title in Chessboxing. After a very tied confrontation at the World Championship in Italy, Valentin won and defended his title of middleweight category champion (WCBO league). Chessboxing is a sport combining boxing rounds with a game of rapid chess, in alternate, …read more

Tomáš Dlask received the Dean´s Award for prestigious dissertation

Tomáš Dlask received the Dean´s Award for prestigious dissertation
The Dean’s Awards for prestigious dissertations were awarded on November 8th at the Scientific council meeting. Researcher Ing. Tomáš Dlask, Ph.D. received the award for his work Block-Coordinate Descent and Local Consistencies in Linear Programming under the supervision of doc. Ing. Tomáš Werner, Ph.D. Congratulations!

Lukáš Neumann awarded the prestigious GA ČR JUNIOR STAR grant

Lukáš Neumann awarded the prestigious GA ČR JUNIOR STAR grant
The Czech Science Foundation (GA ČR)  announced the results of the JUNIOR STAR 2024 projects. The highly selective tender is aimed at excellent early-career scientists coming to the Czech Republic from abroad or with significant international experience. With an exceptional funding amount of CZK 25 million for 5 years, the scientists will be able to …read more

Zuzana Kúkelová was awarded NEURON 2023 prize for promising scientists

Zuzana Kúkelová was awarded NEURON 2023 prize for promising scientists
Congratulations to Zuzana Kúkelová for her achievement! She is the laureate of the Neuron 2023 prize for promising scientists in the field of computer science. The prizes are awarded to Czech scientists for their scientific results and should be perceived as encouraging to their further work. An independent local Scientific Council selects the laureates in …read more

Robot dogs and drones as part of a security camera system?

Robot dogs and drones as part of a security camera system?
The Axis Demoshow meeting for about a hundred security managers and experts from major Czech companies and institutions took place on 21 September 2023 in the premises of the Všetice Farm near Benešov u Prahy. The programme included demonstrations of experimental systems assembled by teams led by Professor Tomáš Svoboda and Associate Professor Martin Saska …read more

Dominika Burešova’s achievement in the Global Undegraduate Awards

Dominika Burešova's achievement in the Global Undegraduate Awards
Congratulations to our student Dominika Burešová for her achievement!  Dominika was supervised by Prof. RNDr. Pavel Pták, DrSc, and worked as a part of Prof. Navara´s team. She was named Highly Commended in the Mathematics and Physics category in the prestigious Global Undergraduate Awards for 2023. The Global Undergraduate Awards (often referred to as the …read more

Tomáš Dlask is a winner of Antonín Svoboda Award for the Best Ph.D. Thesis

Tomáš Dlask is a winner of Antonín Svoboda Award for the Best Ph.D. Thesis
Congratulations to Tomáš Dlask for his achievement! He was announced as a winner of the Antonín Svoboda Award for the Best Ph.D. for Thesis defended in 2022. The Czech Society for Cybernetics and Informatics selects the best Ph.D. Thesis every year. The topic of PhD thesis falls within the scope of ČSKI’s scientific activities (cybernetics, …read more
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