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 (May 31).

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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

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!