Vojtěch Vonásek received the Dean’s Award for teaching

Vojtěch Vonásek received the Dean’s Award for teaching
Vojta Vonásek received the Dean’s Award for teaching in the winter semester 2023/24. Teachers are awarded for teaching results based on the recommendation of a Committee appointed by the Dean. The committee’s decision is based on the results of the students´ verbal survey, suggestions from the heads of departments, and other factors such as the …read more

Zdeněk Straka successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis

Zdeněk Straka successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis Learning peripersonal space representations: From brains to robots and was awarded the Ph.D. title in the doctoral study program Artificial Intelligence and Biocybernetics. Supervisor: prof. Ing. Tomáš Svoboda, Ph.D. Supervisor specialist: doc. Mgr. Matěj Hoffmann, Ph.D. Congratulations!

Drone developers from MRS group at the finals of 3D Mapping Challenge/UAS 5.0 competition

Drone developers from MRS group at the finals of 3D Mapping Challenge/UAS 5.0 competition
The MRS group succeeded in the semi-finals and advanced to the finals of the 3D Mapping Challenge/UAS 5.0 competition, which will take place April 9-11 in Kansas. A total of 11 teams that have passed the previous two rounds will compete for prizes worth a total of $987,500. The 3D Mapping Challenge/UAS 5.0 is one …read more

Yash Patel received the Dean´s Award for prestigious dissertation

Yash Patel received the Dean´s Award for prestigious dissertation
The Dean’s Awards for prestigious dissertations were awarded on March 13th at the Scientific Council meeting. Researcher Yash Patel was awarded for his work Neural Network Training and Non-Differentiable Objective Functions under the supervision of Prof. Jiří Matas. Yash was the first candidate who received the Ph.D. title in the new study program Computer Science. …read more

Werner von Siemense Awards 2023

Werner von Siemense Awards 2023
Congratulations to Ing. Jekatěrina Jaroslavceva and her supervisor prof. Ondřej Chum and also to dr. Vojtěch Spurný and his supervisor doc. Martin Saska for their extraordinary achievement in this year’s Werner von Siemens Awards! Jekatěrina received two awards. She was awarded for excellence in women’s scientific work and she was a runner-up in the category …read more

Matěj Hoffmann´s comments on the new model of Humanoid robot by Figure AI

Matěj Hoffmann´s comments on the new model of Humanoid robot by Figure AI
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Interview with Tomáš Svoboda on Czech radio

Interview with Tomáš Svoboda on Czech radio
The interview is available only in Czech – the link is here

Donation for ACORUS

Donation for ACORUS
On Tuesday, February 6, the director Jaroslava Chaloupková from the center ACORUS, z.ú. collected a donation of 6,000 CZK from the staff of the Department of Cybernetics. Money raised during the social event at restaurant Zvonařka, will help victims of domestic violence, clients of the ACORUS center. This non-profit organization provides comprehensive professional assistance to …read more

Petr Marek defended his Ph.D. thesis

Petr Marek successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis Dialogue Management for Conversational AI and was awarded the Ph.D. title in the doctoral study program Artificial Intelligence and Biocybernetics. Supervisor: Ing. Václav Chudáček, Ph.D. Supervisor specialist: Ing. Jan Šedivý, Csc. Congratulations!

Introducing GACR Junior Stars 2023 projects

Introducing GACR Junior Stars 2023 projects
This article introduces some of the successful Czech scientists who are currently investigating their GACR JUNIOR STAR projects.
Responsible person: Petra Rosická