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Jakub Čillík and Samuel Wittlinger, students in the follow-up master’s degree programme in Artificial Intelligence and Data Processing at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, took first place at the Inovačný Cirkus hackathon in Trnava as part of a four-member team. Their solution uses artificial intelligence to automate communication between citizens and public authorities and integrates with SharePoint, a system already used by local governments.

Jonáš Michálek from the Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University and Tomáš Domin from the Faculty of Law at Masaryk University won the sixth edition of the Start Your Business competition and received a prize of CZK 80,000. As part of their DOMIN TENDER project, they developed and continue to develop Descartes, an application that uses artificial intelligence to help analyse documents and bids in public procurement.

While most students were still enjoying the final days of their summer break, a group of image analysis and processing enthusiasts began their semester a week early.

Hana Rudová, Head of the Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, delivered the opening keynote at PATAT 2026, held at the University of Nottingham from 25 to 28 August.

From 17 to 20 June, the European Congress on Digital Pathology (ECDP 2026), one of the major gatherings of the digital pathology community, took place.

In medicine today, the problem is often not a lack of data, but a lack of time and capacity to evaluate it safely.

On 24 June 2026, the Cybersecurity Competition Summer School took place at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University.

Five students from the Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University achieved success at this year's Czech-Slovak Student Scientific and Professional Activities (SVOČ) competition in mathematics and informatics.

How does Tor work? What is the darknet, really? How can you protect your privacy online or bypass internet censorship?

The Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University once again became a meeting place for high school students interested in technology.

How can a single school assignment turn into a lifelong career path? Read an interview with Tomáš Hájek, a student at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, who discovered his professional direction thanks to one such task.

The Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University (FI MU) has long been a breeding ground for talent in digital game development. Game development is not just about code, graphics and engines. It is about collaboration, creativity, the ability to respond quickly to change – and above all about people who are eager to create.

What if you could literally step into the story while reading a book? This is the question explored by Nikola Kunzová, a current doctoral student of Informatics at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University. The result of her research is Bookwander – a project that connects literature with virtual reality and offers an entirely new perspective on what it means to be a reader in the digital age.

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.

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.

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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.