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This is undoubtedly an important award for Professor Jiří Jaroš – and at the same time proof of the high standard of teaching at the Faculty of Information Technology. This sums up the significance of the Award of the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports for Outstanding Educational Activity at a University, which Jaroš received from the Minister of Education Mikuláš Bek on Tuesday, November 4, 2025. The award is given to university employees for exceptional and innovative pedagogical achievements, and its aim is to highlight the importance of high-quality educational activities at universities.

Jiří Jaroš has been working for many years in the fields of highly demanding calculations, software for research and development, parallel and distributed algorithms, and numerical simulation. Since 2016, he has led the Supercomputer Technologies research group at the Faculty of Information Technology. His field of research is photoacoustic imaging and enabling its practical applications, currently especially in personalized medicine. Last year, the success of his research team was published in the form of a breakthrough diagnostic technology, the optical 3D photoacoustic scanner.

No less significant, however, is Jaroš's role in educating IT students. Jiří Jaroš is an innovative educator who continuously enriches his courses with the latest findings from research and practice. He is not afraid to introduce new methods into his teaching and motivates his students by involving them in international projects. It was he who advocated for FIT students to have access to the supercomputing technologies of the IT4Innovations center in Ostrava. Currently, his name is associated with the important Czech AI Factory project, where he is in charge of training activities (for students and commercial entities) and the creation of a related student hub directly at FIT.

How does this popular educator define his teaching style? Where does he find his inner motivation as a teacher, and what does he perceive as the current challenges of his profession? You can read about it in our press release here.

Are you interested in machine learning and AI models and want to learn from the experiences of others? As part of the nationwide AI Days, the DeepLayers 2025 conference/forum will take place in Brno. The event will last two days, so mark your calendars for November 4 and 5, 2025. The venue is the Institute of Scientific Instruments of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Brno.

The first day will be devoted to practical workshops on training deep learning models – individual blocks will be dedicated to data processing, tutorials on working with models, building blocks of deep learning networks, and data augmentation, for example. Beginners and advanced learners are welcome, with the organizers primarily targeting bachelor's, master's, and doctoral students.

The second day will feature lectures by professionals from the fields of practice and research. You will learn, for example, about the importance of data quality in the development of software solutions in healthcare, and the extremely topical issue of quantum computing will also be addressed. The complete program of the event can be found here.

Filip Plešinger from the Artificial Intelligence and Medical Technologies Group at the Institute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences summarized the focus of both days: "The first day is for those who want to compare concepts, fine-tune the basics, and look at model training. On the second day, we will focus on real-life cases from business and academia and discuss how to bring it all to the world: from input data to deployment."

Participation in DeepLayers 2025 is free, but registration is required due to the limited number of participants. You can register at the link above.

The DeepLayers conference is held regularly and in recent years has become a reliable event connecting industry, research, new experiences... and, of course, those interested in machine learning.

LLM – a term that is shaking up the IT world. This year's third annual event organized by Seznam is also dedicated to large language models. Seznam Meetup, a gathering of experts and enthusiasts interested in the practical use of generative language models, will focus this year on applications of models in the form of assistants, agents, and chatbots. The event, which welcomed 600 participants in 2024, will take place outside Prague for the first time this year – the Faculty of Information Technology at Brno University of Technology has been secured as the venue. The date is Friday, November 7, 2025, from 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Seznam Meetup is part of the nationwide AI Days popularization activity, which presents artificial intelligence in relation to current events and focuses on specific examples of AI use across various fields of human activity.

The main part of the Seznam Meetup program consists of invited lectures by experts. Dominik Macko (DataSentics) will talk about his experience with building a custom RAG chatbot in the environment of a large financial institution. Jiří Spilka (Apify) will reflect on the prospects of the emerging economy of LLM agents. Radoslav Mikeš (Seznam.cz) will share his experience with the development of Seznam Assistant. The entire evening will be moderated by Diana Hlaváčová, product manager for large language models at Seznam.

The complete program can be found on the event website. Here you can also register to participate either in person or online.

Great opportunities, undeniable challenges – if you are interested in the world of practical LLM applications, you should not miss this event.

We would like to thank the research groups Speech@FIT and KNOT@FIT for organizing the event at our faculty. Specifically, Prof. Honza Černocký.