University students from 37 countries will gather next week at the CTU campus in Prague on Charles Square for the fifth edition of the Summer School of Multirobotic Systems. The reputation of the Prague Summer School at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of CTU among those interested in drones and robotics from all over the world grows every year: this year a record 240 participants will fill the capacity of the largest lecture room, with more than 80 percent coming from abroad. They will include students from top universities including MIT, Stanford, Cambridge, Oxford and ETH Zurich.

The children who graduated from the Children's University of CTU in the second week of July had adventures and unusual experiences while learning about technical fields.

The winners of the DIF 2024 Photo Contest of the subject Digital Photography Processing were announced at the opening of the exhibition TIME & DESTRUCTION on 6 June 2024. The projects of the eight best artists can be seen (and read!) in the next months (probably twelve) in the glass ground floor of the CIIRC, Building A at the cornerstone; the exhibition is freely accessible every weekday through the main entrance from Jugoslavských partyzánů street.

The Vice Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of CTU for cooperation with industry and commercialization, Professor Jan Vobecký, has been inducted into the ISPSD (International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices & ICs) Hall of Fame. ISPSD honours individuals who have made significant contributions to the development of power semiconductor technology and/or to maintaining the success of ISPSD.

This September (9-13 September), the first micro-certificate course entitled "Applied Artificial Intelligence for Technical Innovation" will take place in Prague and Munich. The course, which is part of lifelong learning programme at CTU, has been created thanks to a unique collaboration between the EuroTeQ Alliance and the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU), the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and two partners from industry - Valeo and the German expert on AI applications in industry AppliedAI.

The institutionalization of photography at the Czech Technical University dates back to the end of the 19th century, when the Institute of Practical Photography was founded in 1899 under the leadership of Professor of Fermentation Chemistry and Photography Karel Kruis. The Prague Polytechnic also retains its leadership in the field of higher education of future technical experts for moving pictures for film, television and radio. This year marks the round but unfortunately somewhat forgotten 70th anniversary of the founding of the oldest technically oriented audiovisual field in Czechoslovakia, called Radio, Film and Television Technology (RFT), along with the establishment of the Department of Sound and Film Technology at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, thus putting our alma mater two years ahead of the famous FAMU in Prague. There, the Department of Film and Television Technology was founded by Prof. Jaroslav Bouček in 1956.

Call for Applications in the fields of Engineering, Mathematics and Physics deadline: September 30, 2024

The new autonomous electroformula developed by the eForce Prague Formula student team has several major differences from last year's model. For example, technological innovations improve the aerodynamics of the car. Today, the team members presented the Formula at a ceremony in the Škoda Museum in Mladá Boleslav. The first of a series of four races this year awaits the pilots of the team in July. The team consists mainly of students from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of CTU and the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of CTU.

At the end of May, the 18th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition was organized in Istanbul, the leading international forum for the research of image- and video-based recognition of faces, gestures, and body movements. The "Best Poster Award" was awarded to PhD student Ing. Miroslav Purkrábek and his mentor Prof. Jiří Matas from the Visual Recognition Group at the Department of Cybernetics, FEE CTU.

This year's Antonín Svoboda Award for the best dissertation in computer science and cybernetics has its winner. The highest award went to Yash Patel, Ph.D. from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague for his dissertation entitled "Neural Network Training and Non-Differentiable Objective Functions" prepared under the mentoring of Prof. Ing. Jiří Matas, Ph.D.

The Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the CTU in Prague awarded the Dean's Award for an exceptional dissertation. The following researchers received the award for the year 2023:

ScienceFest will take place on Vítězné náměstí in Prague on 19 June! The Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the CTU (FEE) will again participate in a rich programme for children and adults. What will you enjoy this year?

There's no hiding tooth decay from artificial intelligence. The most prevalent disease, affecting approximately half of the world's population, can be diagnosed by AI from X-rays as effectively as by experienced dentists. A team of researchers from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of CTU and the 1st Medical Faculty of Charles University developed the automated method for detecting cavities based on deep learning.
 

The programme of the Summer Biomedical Day, which took place on 24 May at the FEL CTU in Prague - Dejvice, was certainly busy! Representatives of the Medical Electronics and Bioinformatics (BIO) programme announced the winners of the student competition BioSignal Challenge. Visitors also saw the new logo of the BIO programme and enjoyed the concert.

The Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Prague-Dejvice hosted another year of the student scientific conference POSTER on Thursday 23 May. The event aims to enable university students to present their first research papers and develop professional contacts. An expert jury also awarded the best papers in eight categories at the conference.