Reports

A travelling exhibition of photographs 'Ukraine: War and Resistance' opened yesterday at CTU in the St.Wenceslas Hall of the Bethlehem Chapel. This project was initiated by the Fulbright Commission in Ukraine and implemented by the Fulbright Commission in the Czech Republic and CTU in Prague.

The traditional New Year's concert for CTU employees, partners and friends took place in the beautiful Dvořák Hall of Rudolfinum on Tuesday 9 January. As every year, there was a huge interest in the concert.

The system is not only able to detect the shooting and determine the shooter's position within seconds but also to estimate the calibre and type of weapon used. Artificial intelligence is involved in identifying the type of weapon, making the system from the Department of Measurement at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of CTU superior to existing technologies. The acoustic detector, which can distinguish gunshots from false alarms with a 99 percent success rate, will be useful for both special military and civilian use in buildings such as schools hospitals, and urban areas.

From April to December 2023, the staff of the Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies of CTU in Prague implemented the international university cooperation project "Transfer of experience in urban development and renewal planning to Moldova" within the framework of the Czech Foreign Aid funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic and the Czech Development Agency.

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.

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The leadership of the Czech Technical University in Prague is shocked by the events at the Faculty of Philosophy at Charles University, expresses its sincere condolences to the family and loved ones of the victims and its confidence that all who have suffered injuries will make a rapid recovery.

The Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the CTU has a double representation in the list of projects awarded the prestigious award of the Minister of Health for Research and Development. It was awarded to Associate Professor Jan Rusz, who researches speech disorders in patients with Parkinson's disease. With doc. Michal Novotný and Tereza Tykalová as members of his team. The award of the Minister of Health was also given to the team of Prof. Pavel Kršek (2. Faculty of Medicine, Charles University) for research on epilepsy, whose research team includes Dr. Radek Janča as a representative of the CTU FEE. All of the awarded researchers from the CTU FEE are from the Department of Circuit Theory.

In the week from 4 to 8 December, an excursion to see examples of good practice took place in Prague for a group of students and teachers from Alecu Russo State University in Balti, Moldova. This was prepared by academics from the Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies of Czech Technical University in Prague as part of the Czech Republic's foreign aid to partners.

This year, the prestigious Generation Google Scholarship: for women in computer science was awarded to Daria Mikhaylovskaya, a student of the Open Informatics (OI) programme at Faculty of Electrical Engineering of CTU. The expert jury was impressed by the wide range of activities Daria Mikhaylovskaya is engaged in during her studies and the successes she has already achieved. The student works in the Humanoid Robotics Team at CTU Faculty of Electrical Engineering led by doc. Matej Hofmann.