Prime Minister Petr Fiala awarded the Karel Kramář Medal for merit in the field of culture, respect for human rights and freedoms, building a free democratic society, journalism and science and research. Among the seventeen honoured personalities is Prof. Michal Pěchouček, director and co-founder of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of CTU.

With the slogan "All You Need Is All You Need" as the name of their team, PhD students Radim Špetlík and Michal Kučera from the Department of Computer Graphics and Interaction and Open Computer Science student David Kunz came to win the Chaos Neurathon 2023. This competition, the first of its kind, focused on the use of artificial intelligence in 3D rendering, was held in Prague from 25 to 29 November 2023 under the auspices of Chaos, a leading player in the world of visualization technologies. 

Sleep is extremely important for the human body. Most people are aware that they need to sleep for a reasonable length of time and at a convenient time, yet a large proportion of the population does not act accordingly. Sleep is getting shorter and its k valence is also decreasing due to alcohol or other addictive substances. Complaints about sleep are some of the most common that doctors hear in their offices. 

Join us for the Open Day of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of CTU, which took place at the Dejvice and Karlovo náměstí campus on December 1, 2023.

Vít Růžička graduated in Open Computer Science from the Faculty of Computer Science at the CTU and in 2020 he started his PhD studies at Oxford University, where he focuses on machine learning and its application in various scientific fields. In November, his latest paper on methane leak detection using hyperspectral satellites was published in Nature Scientific Reports. In our interview, he discusses, among other things, how he remembers studying in the Czech Republic versus other countries and whether, after years of research, he is not overwhelmed by the despair of the climate crisis, which his projects affect greatly.

The JUNIOR STAR Grants, awarded on 3 November 2023 by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (GA ČR), are intended to promote excellence in budding outstanding scientists. Thanks to this, Ing. Lukáš Neumann, Ph.D. from the Department of Cybernetics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of CTU.

Open-Cube is a new platform based on the popular Raspberry Pi PICO. It aims to replace the now hard to find or worn out LEGO Mindstorms that have been used so far in the Robots course or in various robotics competitions. It supports sensors and motors from both the NXT and EV3 kits, as well as self-developed sensors such as the laser rangefinder. Open-Cube is meant to be an open platform with available HW and FW source files that anyone can build and possibly contribute their own ideas to its development.
 

We are pleased to announce that the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of CTU has become a partner of the Game Developers Session (GDS), which will take place on 8th and 9th December at the Prague Congress Centre.

In the prestigious IT SPY competition, the graduate of the Open Informatics programme of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of CTU, Ing. Pavlína Koutecká, under the guidance of Associate Professor Přemysl Šůcha from the Department of Control Engineering, proposed possibilities for better planning of surgical interventions in hospitals. Using the branch-and-price method accelerated by machine learning, her solution will bring significant savings in time and resources. The jury awarded Pavlína Koutecká's work with 2nd place. 

Thanks to a Fulbright-Masaryk Scholarship, educator and popularizer of playful science Jiří Zemánek spent the 2019/2020 academic year at MIT. After three years, he returned to the world's top-ranked technological university according to the QS ranking, accompanied by his colleague Kristof Pučejdl and two master's students. We had the following conversation with the two researchers from the Department of Control Engineering at the FEL CTU about their work trip, inspirations for their own research in the field of digital materials, as well as the differences between their students and those at MIT.

The traditional Winter Biomedical Day will take place on 5 December at 17:00 as part of the St. Nicholas Day celebrations. All students, teachers and those interested in the BIO field are hereby invited to a pleasant informal meeting. 

Students in the final year of the Master's programme in Medical Electronics and Bioinformatics took a three-day excursion to RWTH Aachen and the MEDICA Trade Fair in Düsseldorf last week.
 

The Czech Telecommunications Office (CTU) has newly started to use an innovative version of the equipment for simultaneous testing of mobile networks of three operators in its measurement vehicles. Thanks to the measurement system, the controller will be able to perform long-term uninterrupted testing while in motion and transfer the results to map documents immediately after the measurement is completed.

In the prestigious competition The Global Undergraduate Awards 2023, which is called the Nobel Prize for juniors, Dominika Burešová, a student of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the CTU in Prague, was among the winners in the category of mathematics and physics. She succeeded with her bachelor's thesis in a competition of more than 2,800 other male and female students from 409 universities worldwide. No one from the Czech Republic has ever won this prize in the fields taught at CTU.