How is ChatGPT changing the landscape of NLP research? And what are the implications for businesses looking to leverage these technologies? Join us for an invited talk by Jan Pichl, CTO at PromethistAI which takes place on April 13, 2023.

On March 23, 2023, we will host a guest lecture by the mathematician Rodolfo Rios-Zertuche from LAAS-CNRS/ANITI. Join the seminar titled Solving PDE, variational, and optimal control problems using semidefinite programs via occupation measure relaxations.

Tomáš Pevný will give a lecture on Steganography at the 53rd Prague Computer Science Seminar. Join us on March 9 to learn about the study of secret messages.

The fifth RCI Offsite took place in February 2023 in Pilsen. Researchers met for a two-day conference to discuss the newest research results and network across groups. 

Computational Robotics Laboratory organized the Czechia-Taiwan-Germany Workshop on Intelligent Robots.

We are opening a new course on Quantum Computing taught by Jakub Mareček and his team. What will the students learn?

The dissertation defense of Michal Trnka will take place on January 23, 2023. Register to watch it online.

A new book is out! Deep Learning with Relational Logic Representations by Gustav Šír was published in the IOS Press.

The DNS4EU project was approved by the European Commission! Together with an international consortium led by Whalebone, we plan to onboard 100 million people to a new EU-based DNS internet infrastructure. 

IDA group co-organized the Qminers Quant Hackathon 2022 together with the tech company Qminers. Šimon Mandlík, Ph.D. student in our department, won the main prize.

Our Ph.D. student Jiří Ulrich is in the finals of IT SPY competition 2022 with his Master's thesis on a multiple-camera localization system. Read about his research that can even lead to stabilizing endangered ecosystems.

Our interactive installation Forum Robotum at Signal Festival attracted 24,000 visitors.

CTU Open 2022 will be held on November 4-5, 2022 in Prague, Brno, Pilsen, Ostrava and Slovakian cities. Come compete in the regionals of one of the largest programming contests, the ICPC!

Accept our invitation to the conference "Signal & Noise" on October 27. We will share examples of good practice of automation of sources in journalistic discourse. Join us online!

How do robots see the world? Our interactive light installation Forum Robotum brings the state of the art research to one of the biggest cultural events in Prague.

Join us for the FutureMED 2022 conference dedicated to advanced healthcare technologies in civil and military medicine on September 23-24, 2022 in Hradec Králové.

Accept our invitations to the CEDMO International Conference on the information chaos held on September 22-23, 2022.

The Prague Computer Science Seminar on September 14, 2022 will welcome an honorable guest, Richard Sutton from DeepMind and the University of Alberta. Do not miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

Assistant Professor Fabio Difonzo from the University of Bari Aldo Moro will give a talk on September 14 on the topic of Stochastic Langevin Differential Inclusions with Applications to Machine Learning.

Summer Programming Bootcamp for new FEE CTU students will take place on 12.-15. 9. 2022. Sign up to learn the basics of coding before school starts!

Johannes Aspman (Trinity College Dublin) will visit our department on September 12 to give a talk titled A gentle introduction to tame geometry.

Join us for a seminar led by Andre Uschmajew from the Max Planck Institute who will talk about the Tensor product approximation of linear operators on matrix spaces. We meet at the department on Friday, September 2, 2022.

Postdoctoral researcher Christos Pelekis from NTU Athens will give a talk on September 1, 2022. Come learn about algorithms for the network coloring game in this IDA seminar!

The recording of our panel discussion "Transhumanism in Research and in Life" is ready. Dive into the topic of cyborgs, longevity and cloud civilizations with our interesting guests Sara Polak, Dodo and Bolek Kerouš.

Analyze leaked chat log files and win 1 000 USD in this year's International Cybercrime Research Summer Award!

Let's talk about cyborgs, longevity research, body implants, cloud civilizations and everything related to transhumanism. Panel discussion Transhumanism in Research and in Life takes place on June 16 at 6:00 PM on the Dejvice campus.

In May 2022, the RCI offsite took place in Ricany. Researchers across the university met to discuss progress in their research and network. Read our report from the event!

Apple AirTags and other location-tracking devices are a useful tool when it comes to locating misplaced items or even missing people. But how can we maintain their privacy standards and guarantee fairness? AI algorithms developed by Jakub Mareček offer solutions.

Don't miss the invited talk Player of Games by Martin Schmid (Equilibre Technologies) on January 27 at 2:00 PM via Zoom.

The team of Stratosphere lab uncovered an Android banking botnet and explored the world of underground attackers, informal online forums, and the economy of encrypting malware-as-a-service. They summed up their 5-year-long investigation in an extensive blog post. Highly recommended reading!

Petr Křemen from the KBSS research group invites you to his webinar on December 15 about SNOMED.

Don't miss the hands-on seminar about the importance and principles of multimedia in online education. It takes place in person on December 10 and requires registration.

We invite you to the online conference Signal and Noise. It will take place on December 8, 2021 from 3:00 PM and will focus on how technology is transforming the work of journalists. Jan Drchal and Luboš Král from the AI Center will be presenting as well.

The dissertation defense of Michal Trnka will take place on November 12, 2021 at 15:00. Registration to watch online is required.

A team of the DTA project participated in the exercise of the University of Defence in the military training area Tisá.

Summer Programming Bootcamp for new FEE CTU students will take place on 13.-16. 9. 2021. Sign up to learn the basics of coding before school starts!

A four-legged robot SPOT from Boston Dynamics joins the AI Center to increase our chances in the finals of DARPA SubT Challenge.

Martin Ledvinka will be defending his Ph.D. thesis on June 24 from 13:00.

Join us for the virtual conference Transformation of Newsrooms With the Advent of AI Journalism, co-organized by our project research partners, the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism FSV UK. It will take place on May 13, 2021 online.

We invite you to the (virtual) exhibition Czech Footprint in the History of Computer Science in the National Technical Museum in Prague that runs until May 9, 2021.

AI Center established internal competition for the best student paper of 2020 published in AIC.

Our AI Center is launching a new website and celebrates the 20th anniversary with a fresh visual identity.

Veronica Valeros is giving an online presentation "Tapping on the Wire: Understanding Malicious Behaviors on the Network". The event is organized on January 28 as part of the Black Hat Webcast Series.

Niklas Heim will present his paper titled Neural Power Unit at the Czech chapter of NeurIPS on December 11, 2020. 

Petr Křemen from the Knowledge-Based and Software Systems group is co-organizing Jurix 2020 - 33rd International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems.

Dissertation thesis defense of Josef Kufner on Nov. 30, 2020 at 14:30.

We are organizing Qminers Quant Hackathon that brings algorithmic trading into the field of sports betting. Register until October 31, beat a virtual bookmaker with your investment strategy and get financial awards.  

Final state exam of Jonas Daniel Nienhaus on Nov. 20, 2020 at 14:30.

Tomáš Krajník will give a lecture as part of the AI Science Café Series 2020 on November 18. Join us online to learn about methods enabling robots to build and maintain spatio-temporal models of environmental dynamics and predict the future states of the environment they operate in.

The latest white paper published by our cybersecurity research group explores the growth of IPv6 in the last years and how it impacts the field of IoT. Read the full pdf here!

Sebastián García, Head of Stratosphele Lab (cybersecurity research group) was invited to the panel discussion about AI and human rights at the Information Security Summit 2020. 

Propaganda, fake news, and misinformation are not just social science topics. Our AI Center research deals with so-called computational propaganda. In addition to politics, algorithms and automation are increasingly entering communication. Learn how they are being exploited in the first blog post in a series by our cybersecurity team (Stratosphere Lab).

We invite you to the conference Challenges of Journalism in 21. Century – Automated Journalism and AI Journalism that will take place on September 24, 2020 at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague. Researchers are encouraged to submit the abstracts of their talks until July 31.

Key information about the current coronavirus pandemic for our employees. Other faculty members and students may find this helpful as well. Let's stay safe together!

Summer Programming Bootcamp for new FEE CTU students will take place on 14.-17. 9. 2020. Sign up to learn the basics of coding before school starts!

We cooperate on ideathon Hack the Mind. Hack the Brain. Help Us Understand dedicated to the actual topic of cognitive warfare technologies. STILL research group is among the key organizers.

Maria Rigaki and Sebastián García wrote a new blog post mapping how much information ML systems leak. She reviewed the recent techniques, important attacks and why they're possible in the first place. Read the text titled Machine Learning Leaks and Where to Find Them.

Bora Evci from the University of Klagenfurt will give an invited talk on July 23 at 14:30. Dive into the matching theory and its axiomatic part with him this Thursday!

Ravi Kant Rai who is applying for a PostDoc position with AI Center invites you to his online seminar on Discrete Richman-Bidding Scoring Games that will take place on July 16, 14:30 via Zoom.

Aditya Aradhye from Maastricht University is giving an invited talk on July 9, 14:30 to introduce his research in Sender-Receiver Stopping Games. 

We are hosting a seminar by Zubair Rafique from KU Leuven on June 24 (Wednesday) at 14:30. Join us virtually for a talk about the security risks of live streaming services.

Our department is part of the Folding@home project contributing to the CTU being the most effective academic institution in the country!

We invite you to the CyberSec&AI Connected 2020 security conference, which will take place on October 8 in Prague, London, New York and San Francisco. The event organized by CTU and our partner Avast will be streamed online for participants all over the world. The conference also includes technical workshops with Call for Presentations (June 30).

Covid-19 brought about many attempts to fight the pandemic with technology, one of these being a "Smart quarantine" that uses movement-tracking apps. Is such software a helpful tool or rather a big brother? Tomáš Krajník will talk about the potential negative impacts of these software solutions in an online discussion organized by Paralelní Polis on May 4, 2020 at 20:00.

The research paper "On Model Evaluation under Non-constant Class Imbalance" by Jan Brabec and Tomáš Komárek got accepted to the A-rate conference ICCS 2020. Great success!

Jiří Kubík designed a test tube opener manufactured on a 3D printer. The tool, originally designed for the Na Bulovce Hospital, is already used by seven Czech laboratories and can be printed free of charge by anyone!

Tomáš Krajník will have an online seminar about the new project FreMEn contra COVID as part of the Science Café series organized by the Czech Centre in London. Join the lecture online for free on April 16.

HOT NEWS!!! Our AI-powered app FreMEn Adviser is finally out. This tool developed in the Chronoroborics Laboratory will advise you when to go to public places to meet as few people as possible. Avoid regularly crowded shops, parks and playgrounds and lower the risk of getting infected with Covid-19 or other diseases.

Tomáš Krajník will introduce his new project FreMEn contra COVID in the online Corona Nights series. The event is organized by Paralelní Polis on April 14 and is streamed online at 20:00.

AI Center has a new profile on the career website Cocuma that aims to present amazing company cultures. Look inside our center and join the team!

IDA research group is organizing a seminar with a special guest Vladimir Shikhman from the Technische Universität Chemnitz Germany. It will take place on Wednesday February 19 from 14:30 in KN:E-205. Everyone is welcome!

Find out how to get a scholarship for Grace Hopper Celebration 2020, how to introduce yourself in 30 seconds and get a dream job.

Our students and researchers will defend last year's success at the next edition of DARPA robotic competition on February 18-27. Cross your fingers for the CTU-CRAS-NORLAB team!

We are representing our university at the robotic challenge MBZIRC 2020 in Abu Dhabi.

Diego Oliva from the University of Guadalajara will have a seminar Metaheuristic Algorithms for Image Segmentation: Theory and Applications on Monday, February 17.

On February 13, or CS seminar will host a special guest: prof. Stefan Edelkamp from King's College London.

We have released Should I Click, a machine learning based tool to analyze if a URL is safe to click. This tool was developed by František Střasák from Stratosphere Lab and is free to use.

Come to the guest talk Learning Sum-Product Networks by Martin Trapp (from the Graz University of Technology) that will take place on January 30 (14:30).

Central Europe has a lot to offer to foreign investors in terms of research infrastructure and experts. We just need to encourage risk-taking and creativity! Read the full report from the conference on smart investments organized at Ministry of Industry and Trade where Michal Pěchouček presented our cooperation with private sector.

The Research Center for Informatics (RCI) formed by FEE and FIT scientists organized the first offsite in year 2020. This time the group went to Monínec (Sedlec-Prčice) and share the newest research results at a two-day conference.

Michal Pěchouček will introduce his vision of Prague as AI Superhub at the next Startup Grind on 22. 1. 2020.

New results from AAICL – our joint laboratory with Avast! We have released IoT-23, the first dataset with real malware and benign IoT network traffic that will encourage the development of new detection models to protect our smart homes.

Michal Pěchouček, director of our AI Center, discussed what AI adds to human lives with the chess master Garry Kasparov at DLD 2020.

On Thursday January 16 we will welcome a special guest Lukáš Adam who will give a seminar on Mathematical Optimization in Applications.

Our AI researchers will participate in the the AI Science Café Series discussions organized by the Czech Centre in London.

Daniel Fišer's research paper was accepted to the prestigious AAAI 2020 conference on artificial intelligence in New York!

Jan Faigl was appointed professor by the Czech president. Congratulations!

Tomáš Krajník will give a habilitation lecture on December 11, 2019 where he will present his habilitation thesis on Long-term Mobile Robot Autonomy in Changing Environments.

Our researchers (Stratosphere IPS) will present the recent discovery of dangerous Geost botnet at Black Hat Europe 2019 in London.

On Monday, November 18 at 16:15, Tomáš Pevný will give a lecture on Future Directions in Steganography and Steganalysis. 

We invite you to AI Marathon – set of three evening seminars (October 29-31) about AI introducing the research, projects and opportunities at our AI Center.

We invite you to a tech conference CyberSec & AI Prague co-organized by CTU and Avast on October 25, 2019.

Our Stratosphere Lab is giving incredible 8 talks till the end of October. 

Our security researchers together with Avast discovered a group of hackers that infected 800 000 users with malware through Geost Botnet. 

Our researcher Ondřej Lukáš will present his Ludus project at Studenta Cyber Party (October 17).

Miroslav Bureš will be in the panel discussion AI in Military IoT Applications on October 11.

Pavel Pačes provided a tutorial lecture at Digital Avionics Systems Conference in San Diego, USA related to use of Artificial Intelligence in Avionics. 

Our researchers involved in the EU-funded Research Center for Informatics (RCI) met in Kutná Hora to present their research results.

Our CS Seminar on September 10 will welcome a guest speaker Eslam Amer who will talk about an exciting topic From Malware Detection to Fake News Detection. 

We hosted a summer school introducing cybersecurity research methods and related topics (i.e. communication) to our students and researchers.

We talked at the 27th DEF CON Hacking Conference in Las Vegas.

After three days of DARPA SubT Challenge, we are on the 3rd place. Check out how we did in the underground rescue missions.

CS Seminar on August 15 will welcome Li Sun (Kevin) from University of Oxford. Come to his tak "Deep Learning for the Robot to Think Fast".

Follow our IoT Honeypot Analysis Series, in which members of our Stratosphere team blog about the Aposemat project research.

Watch a new video with an overview of the EU funded Electrific Project.

Zhi Yan from the University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard will join our CS Seminar on August 8, 2019, .

Jilles S. Dibangoye from INSA Lyon will give a talk about Planning and Learning in Partially Observable Stochastic Games on August 7 (14:30).

The paper of Sebastián García was selected for the CCIS Springer book series!

Next IDA Seminar will welcome Jakub Tolar from University of Minnesota.

Members of the Stratosphere team presented at two BSides 2019 conferences.

We accepted 11 new PhD. students!

Avast appoints Michal Pěchouček as Chief Technology Officer.

Jan Faigl gave a talk at the 2nd Workshop on Informative Path Planning and Adaptive Sampling at RSS 2019. 

Next CS Seminar on June 27 will host a special guest from Stanford University.

Our PhD. student Miloš Prágr presented his work at RSS 2019.

Tomáš Krajník lectured at ETH Zürich.

The Institute of Physical Education and Sport wants to add a simple SW element to their website. Will you help?

The new videos of AI SPRING lecture series are out. 

Verónica Valeros is among the top 100 women in cybersecurity.

Martin Svatoš won a Great Minds Internship in IBM Zurich Lab.

Cybersecurity research team Stratosphere IPS will participate at OWASP Czech Chapter Meeting.

We are competing in DARPA Challenge.

Jiří Matas received a special award for making the Czech Republic visibile in the AI world.

We invite you to the 44th Pattern Recognition & Computer Vision Colloquium organized by the Center for Machine Perception (CMP).

We are in the Science! Our WhyCon method was used to localize the swarm robots in an intuitive Human-Swarm Interaction framework.

We participate in the prestigious SingularityU Czech Summit! Our researcher Viliam "Vilo" Lisý, who deals mostly with game theory, will talk alongside the greatest Silicon vallery experts. 

Our Artificial Intelligence Center is a proud sponsor of this year's BSideBUD - International IT Security Conference. The event will take place on March 28, 2019 in Budapest.

Nominate your PhD research for Joseph Fourier Prize before March 29 and win up to 60 000 CZK and a scholarship for a one-month internship in France of your choice.

Tomáš Pevný gave a lecture at a very prestigious Lancing College in England. The topic was Steganography (the practice of concealing a message, image, or video within another file).

Our paper titled Privacy Leakage of Search-based Multi-Agent Planning Algorithms has been accepted for the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2019) See you in Berkeley, CA in July!

Michal Pěchouček will participate at the Digital Czech Republic Conference 2019. He will be part of the panel discussion "Czech Republic as AI Heart of Europe", that takes place on February 7, 2019.

CTU students placed 7th out of 76 teams in the Kaggle Days competition on January 26, 2019. Two Open Informatics students, Elnaz Babayeva and Anastasia Lebedeva, and a Data Management Specialist from Stains, UK, Evgeniy Markin, formed a team called #nukaktotak and competed with Masters and GrandMasters submissions from all over the world in an 11-hours hackathon. It was their first participation in Kaggle competition and already such a success - congratulations!

Team IDA announces a new support! PhD student Giuseppe Marra from the University of Firenze and University of Siena will join the researchers from January to March 2019. He studies Smart Computing and his research activities are focused on machine learning and its applications for the development of conversational agents. If you want to meet him in person, come to the lecture that he will give on January 17!

We are happy to welcome Prof. Joe Song from New Mexico State University in the Department of Computer Science. He will join Prof. Filip Železný's Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA) Research Group within the Fulbright Program from January 20, 2019. Students will have the chance to meet him in the Bioinformatics course at which he will participate during the Summer Semester 2018/2019. Welcome in Prague, Joe Song!

Stratosphere Lab is looking for a Network Security Analyst. If you have Python developing skills and want to protect NGOs from digital threats, come work with us. We offer 500 EUR/month and participation on a prestigious project that has real impact!