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TL;DR: the university strategy and faculty’s work-in-progress were presented, ideas were brainstormed, and a questionnaire for students and employees will be released

The third edition of the XAI Summer School will take place on 1–5 September 2025 at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic.

Students who defended their Master’s thesis (not Bachelor’s) in the academic year 2024/2025 can apply for IT-SPY, a prestigious competition for the best thesis in the field of computer science. The competition involves 17 Czech and Slovak IT faculties, with a total of around 1,200 theses.

On Tuesday, May 13, 2025, the 25th anniversary edition of the Film Festival organized by the Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University took place. This year’s edition brought several exceptional innovations and literally pushed the festival’s boundaries. For the first time, the event extended beyond the faculty premises and ventured into the heart of Brno — to the Velký Špalíček multiplex.

Bioinformatics Retreat Brought Together Experts and Students Across Brno The Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University hosted its first Bioinformatics Retreat on Friday, May 30, 2025, bringing together around sixty experts and students from various institutions across Brno. The goal of the event was to foster new collaborations, share experiences, and build a community that will continue to meet regularly in the future.

TL;DR: room C226a is becoming a student kitchen starting June 1 2025

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The paper "Beyond Occlusion: In Search for Near Real-Time Explainability of CNN-Based Prostate Cancer Classification" has been accepted for presentation at the prestigious 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2025).

Masaryk University continues to strengthen its ties with its alumni. Now, you can get to know MUNI graduates through a new video series called MUNI by ALUMNI. In these short profiles, alumni from all ten faculties present their career paths, share their study experiences, and offer inspiration to current students. The goal of the project is to motivate both current and future students while showcasing the wide range of career opportunities that MUNI study programs provide.

Bc. Šárka Portešová, a talented student in the master’s program of Visual Informatics at the Faculty of Informatics, decided to reconstruct the village of Štolnava, which has disappeared from maps forever. She harnessed augmented reality (AR) for this purpose and won several awards for her project. You can read the full interview in the FI MU Alumni Gallery.

From January 6 to 10, 2025, the Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute and the Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University in Brno, in collaboration with the Medical University of Graz, hosted the Winter School focused on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in digital pathology. Following the success of the Summer School in September 2024, this event attracted 26 participants, far exceeding the organizers' expectations and highlighting the growing importance of AI in medicine.

Since 2009, the Neuron Foundation has supported Czech science and honored exceptional scientists whose work contributes to advancing knowledge and improving societal well-being. The Neuron Awards are presented annually across seven scientific fields: biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, social sciences, medicine, and computer science. In the 2024 edition, Professor Jan Křetínský (FI MU) was among the awardees—congratulations!

On December 18, 2024, the GENERATIVE exhibition took place at FI MU, showcasing the audiovisual works of students from the Visual Informatics program. The exhibition drew an enthusiastic audience eager to explore the creative work of FI students in digital design and algorithm-generated art.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly penetrating various areas of our lives, from healthcare and science to spirituality. With its growing influence, questions arise about how we should approach this technology and how much we can truly trust it.

With deep sadness, we announce the passing of professor Miloslav Dokulil.

During the first weekend of November, the Faculty of Medicine at Masaryk University hosted the inaugural healthcare hackathon Hack jak Brno.

On September 11, 2024, the Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University hosted the 14th annual Open Space Conference (OSC) on e-learning within the IS MU system. This year’s focus was on the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in education, attracting educators and experts from across the university.

In July 2024, two of our students, Martin Klimeš and Vojtěch Szotkowski, along with Dr. Jan Král from the laboratory of Design and Architecture of Digital Systems (EmLab), participated in a four-week intensive course in Taiwan focused on the design of advanced digital and MEMS (microelectromechanical) circuits.

Introducing the new heads of departments at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, who bring fresh ideas and visions for the future of education, research, and collaboration with industry.

From September 2 to 6, 2024, the Faculty of Informatics and the Institute of Computer Science at Masaryk University in Brno hosted a successful summer school focused on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) in digital pathology.

Our PhD student Lucia Hradecká received the important award. Lucia won the prestigious 2nd place in the Joseph Fourier Prize competition and received the IT4Innovations award for her work "Automatic processing of biomedical image data using deep learning".

The significant Taste of Time award at the SEBD 2024 conference for long-term contribution to the scientific community was given to work Indexing Metric Spaces with M-Tree from 1997 by Professor Pavel Zezula of FI MU and other scientists – F. Rabitti, P. Ciaccia, M. Patella.

Read an inspiring interview with Sofija, a talented student from Serbia who decided to study in the Czech Republic and has achieved many successes at the Faculty of Informatics of Masaryk University.

On Friday, March 22, 2024, the Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University hosted the second annual Neutron workshop with international participation from experts across various scientific institutions. The main goal was to facilitate personal meetings and presentations of individual results from each institution. It also aimed to establish personal contacts for further collaboration with our Ph.D. students in the areas of algorithm acceleration and Monte Carlo simulations.

On January 25 and 26, 2024, we welcomed a visit from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston. Specifically, we were visited by Professor Benoit Forget and a Ph.D. student, with whom Associate Professor Zdeněk Matěj (EmLab) and other students established cooperation.

In 2022, we informed you about the Joseph Fourier Prize in the field of Computer Science and Informatics, which was awarded to RNDr. Valdemar Švábenský, Ph.D., from FI MUNI. As the winner, he had the opportunity to spend a month at a French university. He eventually spent this month at Sorbonne Université in September 2023, and now he shares with us his impressions and experiences from this internship.

Exclusive Interview with Assoc. Prof. RNDr. Petr Sojka, Ph.D. offers insights into his life, his academic journey, and his connection with the Faculty of Informatics. Read the full article to learn more about the person who was instrumental in the founding of FI MUNI in 1994 and has successfully filled many roles there.

On 8 December 2023, the Faculty of Computer Science hosted the first CHESS Industrial Day - a key day for bringing together experts from industry and academia focused on formal methods in software engineering. The programme included presentations on the uses, benefits and limitations of formal methods in practice and tool demonstrations. The event offered a great opportunity to exchange practical experiences with methods and tools for software analysis, verification and testing.

In the spirit of last year's successful slogan, 'The 2nd Best Christmas in the World. Right after yours at home,' TIC BRNO is once again bringing a loaded program for the upcoming Advent. Included is a unique augmented reality (AR) experience, created in collaboration with the creative agency Aetna and the Studio of Graphic Design and Multimedia from the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University. This project represents pioneering technology in the Czech Republic.

Interested in cybersecurity? Are you interested in personalities in this field? And have you heard about the national competition "KYBER AWARD OF THE YEAR"? In the first year of the Cyber Award of the Year, Jan Vykopal, PhD from FI MU was nominated in the Cyber Teacher category.

Tomáš Foltýnek is one of the co-founders of the ENAI group, which tries to fight primarily against plagiarism and writing commissioned works. Artificial intelligence is now in the forefront interest, which gives another dimension to the issue of ethical behavior and document forgery.

The 23rd FI MU Film Festival took place on May 19, 2023 in the University Cinema Scala and at the MU Faculty of Informatics at the same time. The FI MU Dean Jiří Zlatuška took over the patronage of the festival. 13 original films with the theme "On the edge" were shown during the festival evening.

Selected out of 102 applications (with a success rate of 9.8%), the Cyber-security Excellence Hub in Estonia and South Moravia (shortened CHESS) brings together the best teams from both regions to support European Union's safe transition to a digital society.