Illia Volkov, a student of the Bachelor’s program in Open Informatics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FEL), received the Stanislav Hanzl Award for talented CTU students. The award-winning work was carried out under the supervision of Ing. Klára Janoušková and Prof. Jiří Matas from the Visual Recognition Group (VRG).
Volkov achieved a significant milestone in his first year of bachelor’s studies, when, in April 2025, he participated in the prestigious International Conference on Learning Representations in Singapore—one of the world’s top conferences in the field of artificial intelligence. There, he presented a paper addressing shortcomings in the ImageNet database, developed in collaboration with Nikita Kisel, a student in the Master’s program in Open Informatics.
The Stanislav Hanzl Award was established by the Board of Trustees of the Stanislav Hanzl CTU Endowment Fund and was first awarded in 2017. The award is supported by the Rector of CTU in Prague and serves to uphold and deepen the legacy of post-November rector Stanislav Hanzl.
The award is presented to CTU students and is granted to one student from each faculty and from MÚVS, based on the recommendation of the faculty dean or institute director. Eligibility requires outstanding academic performance as well as participation in SGS or another significant activity. Faculty and MÚVS nominations are reviewed and approved at a meeting of the Endowment Fund Board of Trustees.
More information is available on the FEL website: https://fel.cvut.cz/en/what-s-on/news/82934-illia-volkov-from-fel-receives-the-stanislav-hanzl-award-he-donated-the-prize-money-to-help-ukraine