{"id":13840,"date":"2022-01-28T09:18:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T08:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/education-training\/doctoral-studies\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T13:26:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T11:26:57","slug":"doctoral-studies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/education-training\/doctoral-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"element acf-perex margin-bottom-0\"><section class=\"perex  margin-bottom-0\">\n\t<div class=\"wrapper-out\">\n\t\t<div class=\"in cf\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>Join our PhD program and become an expert in artificial intelligence. Dive into challenging research topics with world-class mentors and industry partners. We welcome curious minds to join our open culture.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"why-phd-at-kinit\" class=\"element acf-columns margin-top-0 margin-bottom-0 padding-bottom-0\">\n<section id=\"why-phd-at-kinit\" class=\"columns  margin-top-0 margin-bottom-0 padding-bottom-0\" style=\"background-color: #ebf7f9;\" >\n\t<div class=\"wrapper-out\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wrapper-in\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"in cf\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"element-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"headline\"><h2>Why PhD at KInIT<\/h2><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"columns columns2\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"column\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4><strong>Rise to excellence<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Take advantage of an inspiring environment and become a top expert in your selected AI topic. At Kempelen institute, we prioritise ethical responsibility and societal benefit.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"column\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4><strong>Learn from the best<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>When working on your dissertation, you\u2019ll have access to a distinguished supervising team, including industrial partners and\/or renowned experts from world-class research institutions.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"column\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4><strong>Research that impacts<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Choose a research topic that deeply interests you and will enrich the field. At KInIT, we support excellent, original world-class research and the connection with industry and current research and innovation challenges.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"column\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4><strong>Open culture<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Our culture is based on trust, openness and respect. That is how great ideas are born. We share knowledge and innovations not only within the institute, but also with our industry partners and other curious people like you.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"column\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4><strong>Build your network<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>You&#8217;ll be teamed up with the best researchers in the region and gain invaluable experience and contacts from abroad that will boost your career growth in industry or academia.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"column\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4><strong>No distractions<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>You will become a full-time KInIT employee. We will give you all the time and space you need to focus on your research, skills development and growth.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section> \n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element acf-columns margin-top-0 margin-bottom-0 less-space\">\n<section class=\"columns  margin-top-0 margin-bottom-0 less-space\"  >\n\t<div class=\"wrapper-out\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wrapper-in\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"in cf\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"element-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"columns columns2\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"column\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>KInIT PhD program is run in partnership with<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"column\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fit.vut.cz\/applicants\/degree-programme\/#dr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1539 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/faculty-of-information-technology-300x62.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"62\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/faculty-of-information-technology-300x62.png 300w, https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/faculty-of-information-technology-510x106.png 510w, https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/faculty-of-information-technology.png 512w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/62;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section> \n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-embed wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Your PhD journey starts in KInIT\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7Z6v-iO1sJ0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element acf-columns margin-top-0 margin-bottom-0 padding-bottom-0 heading-no-margin\">\n<section class=\"columns  margin-top-0 margin-bottom-0 padding-bottom-0 heading-no-margin\" style=\"background-color: #ebf7f9;\" >\n\t<div class=\"wrapper-out\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wrapper-in\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"in cf\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"element-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"headline\"><h2>What our PhD students said<\/h2><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"columns columns1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section> \n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element acf-memberquote margin-top-0 margin-bottom-0\"><section class=\"memberquote  margin-top-0 margin-bottom-0\" style=\"background-color: #ebf7f9;\">\n\t<div class=\"wrapper-out\">\n\t\t<div class=\"in cf\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"inner cf\">\n                                        <div class=\"grid\">\n                    \t\t\t\t\t\t                            <div class=\"person\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"photo\">\n                                        <img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Brano-Pecher.jpg\" alt=\"Brano Pecher\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 320px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 320\/320;\">\n                                    <\/div>\n                                                                <div class=\"text\">\n                                    <h4>&#8222;Even though I would have been nervous about the defense and presentation, I think I have grown in the last four years, and presented so much that I&#8217;m more calm right now.&#8220;<\/h4>                                    <p class=\"name\">Branislav Pecher<\/p>                                    <p class=\"position\">#growth<\/p>                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t                            <div class=\"person\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"photo\">\n                                        <img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/goldschmidtweb-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"goldschmidtweb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/1024;\">\n                                    <\/div>\n                                                                <div class=\"text\">\n                                    <h4>&#8222;The impact of my research is to catch bad guys on the internet by using artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques.&#8220;<\/h4>                                    <p class=\"name\">Patrik Goldschmidt<\/p>                                    <p class=\"position\">#impact<\/p>                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t                            <div class=\"person\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"photo\">\n                                        <img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/robert_belanc-683x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"robert_belanc-683x1024\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 683px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 683\/683;\">\n                                    <\/div>\n                                                                <div class=\"text\">\n                                    <h4>&#8222;I was able to meet brilliant and like-minded minds from various fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning.&#8220;<\/h4>                                    <p class=\"name\">R\u00f3bert Belanec<\/p>                                    <p class=\"position\">#internship<\/p>                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t                            <div class=\"person\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"photo\">\n                                        <img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/benova-web-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"benova web\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; 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It wasn\u2019t something offered anywhere else when I was looking for a PhD position.&#8220;<\/h4>                                    <p class=\"name\">Ivana Be\u0148ov\u00e1<\/p>                                    <p class=\"position\">#mentorship<\/p>                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t                            <div class=\"person\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"photo\">\n                                        <img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/mocko-web_51330189024_o.jpg\" alt=\"mocko-web_51330189024_o\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 320px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 320\/320;\">\n                                    <\/div>\n                                                                <div class=\"text\">\n                                    <h4>&#8222;Working with ESET has helped me to get a better understanding of the differences between academic research and industry needs.&#8220;<\/h4>                                    <p class=\"name\">Martin Mocko<\/p>                                    <p class=\"position\">#innovative projects<\/p>                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t                            <div class=\"person\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"photo\">\n                                        <img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Cegin_Jan-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"Cegin_Jan\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/1024;\">\n                                    <\/div>\n                                                                <div class=\"text\">\n                                    <h4>&#8222;It was a really good experience to show my work to the world, to the best people in the field, and to get recognition for it.&#8220;<\/h4>                                    <p class=\"name\">J\u00e1n \u010cegi\u0148<\/p>                                    <p class=\"position\">#conferences<\/p>                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t                            <div class=\"person\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"photo\">\n                                        <img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Vykopal_Ivan_2022-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Vykopal_Ivan_2022\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/1024;\">\n                                    <\/div>\n                                                                <div class=\"text\">\n                                    <h4>&#8222;Writing a paper is a long and interactive process, it often challenged me to communicate my research clearly.&#8220;<\/h4>                                    <p class=\"name\">Ivan Vykopal<\/p>                                    <p class=\"position\">#published paper<\/p>                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t                            <div class=\"person\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"photo\">\n                                        <img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/pavlik-web-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"pavlik web\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/1024;\">\n                                    <\/div>\n                                                                <div class=\"text\">\n                                    <h4>&#8222;It can be challenging because you have to balance the goals of the industry partner with actually publishing papers, so we&#8217;re doing something that is useful for them, and also that is novel enough to be publishable.&#8220;<\/h4>                                    <p class=\"name\">Peter Pavl\u00edk<\/p>                                    <p class=\"position\">#innovative projects<\/p>                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t                            <div class=\"person\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"photo\">\n                                        <img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/santi-square-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"santi square\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/1024;\">\n                                    <\/div>\n                                                                <div class=\"text\">\n                                    <h4>&#8222;KInIT provides a network of researchers that I was excited to be a part of and that would give me a lot of opportunities.&#8220;<\/h4>                                    <p class=\"name\">Santiago Jose de Leon Martinez<\/p>                                    <p class=\"position\">#team<\/p>                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                <\/div>\n            \t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div id=\"\" class=\"element core-button\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/research\/phd-study\/\">Find out more about our doctoral students<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"dissertation-topics\" class=\"element acf-accordion photos-grayscale\">\n<section id=\"dissertation-topics\" class=\"accordion  photos-grayscale\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\">\n\t<div class=\"wrapper-out\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wrapper-in\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"in cf\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"element-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"headline\"><h2>Dissertation topics 2026\/2027<\/h2><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion-wrap accordion-type2\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"heading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4>Recommender and Adaptive Web-Based Systems<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"desc\"><p><b>Supervisor: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michal Kompan (supervisor, KInIT)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Supervising team:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Michal Kompan (supervisor, KInIT), Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh), Branislav Kveton (Google Research), Peter Dolog (Aalborg University),<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Keywords: <\/b>personalised recommendation, machine learning, user model, fairness, multi<br \/>\nobjective and multi stakeholder recommendations, session-based<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"more-info\">Viac info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"less-info\">Menej info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The recommender systems are an integral part of almost every modern Web application. Personalized, or at least adaptive, services have become a standard that is expected by the users in almost every domain (e.g., news, chatbots, social media, or search).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Obviously, personalization has a great impact on the everyday life of hundreds of million users across many domains and applications. This results in a major challenge &#8211; to propose methods that are not only accurate but also trustworthy and fair. Such a goal offers plenty of research opportunities in many directions:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trustworthy recommendation methods for sequence and session-based applications<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Multi-objective and multi-stakeholder recommender systems<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Explaining recommendations<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fairness and justice in recommendations<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Biases in the recommendations<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are several application domains where these research problems can be addressed, e.g., search, e-commerce, social networks, news, and many others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Relevant publications:<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">V. Bogina, T. Kuflik, D. Jannach, M. Bielikova, M. Kompan, C. Trattner. Considering temporal aspects in recommender systems: a survey. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 1-39, 2022. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s11257-022-09335-w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s11257-022-09335-w<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">K. Marcinc\u0306inov\u00e1, A. Gavornik, M. Mesarc\u0306\u00edk, M. Kompan Towards Trustworthy Multi-stakeholder Recommender Systems. European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness, 446-451, 2025. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/proceedings.mlr.press\/v294\/marcinc-inova25a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/proceedings.mlr.press\/v294\/marcinc-inova25a.html<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The research will be performed at the Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies (KInIT, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/kinit.sk<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) in Bratislava in cooperation with industrial partners or researchers from highly respected research units from abroad. A combined (external) form of study and full employment at KInIT is expected.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mentors\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5>Supervising team<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"members-wrap members-grid members-grid-5\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"member\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"picture\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Michal_Kompan-1-255x341.png\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 255px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 255\/341;\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5>Michal Kompan<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"position\">Lead researcher, KInIT<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--<a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/mentor\/michal-kompan\/\" class=\"more\">Viac<\/a>-->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"member\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"picture\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/PBrusilovsky_new-255x341.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 255px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 255\/341;\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5>Peter Brusilovsky<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"position\">Professor, University of Pittsburgh, USA<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--<a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/mentor\/peter-brusilovsky\/\" class=\"more\">Viac<\/a>-->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"member\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"picture\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Brano_kveton_new-255x341.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 255px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 255\/341;\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5>Branislav Kveton<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"position\">Principal Scientist, Adobe Research, USA<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--<a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/mentor\/branislav-kveton\/\" class=\"more\">Viac<\/a>-->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"member\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"picture\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/MicrosoftTeams-image-5.png\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 183px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 183\/247;\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5>Peter Dolog<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"position\">Associate Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--<a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/mentor\/peter-dolog\/\" class=\"more\">Viac<\/a>-->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"heading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4>Evaluating Vulnerabilities and Capabilities of Large Language Models<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"desc\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Supervisor:<\/strong> M\u00e1ria Bielikov\u00e1 (supervisor, KInIT)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Supervising team:<\/strong> M\u00e1ria Bielikov\u00e1 (supervisor, KInIT), Branislav Pecher (KInIT)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Keywords:<\/strong> large language models, in-context learning, benchmarking, mechanistic interpretability, metrics and evaluation, robustness, reasoning, dynamic benchmarks<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"more-info\">Viac info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"less-info\">Menej info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite the impressive performance of large language models (LLMs), these models are still not well understood. A lot of effort is dedicated to evaluating the capabilities of LLMs and creating guardrails to prevent potentially harmful behaviours. However, small prompt variations still significantly alter the behaviour of LLMs, they often fail in tasks that are similar to the ones seen in training data but contain a small change, or they can be easily used to generate confident misinformation. As the large language models increasingly mediate access to information and are increasingly used by expert and non-expert users, it is essential to develop rigorous methods for evaluating their true capabilities and identifying the sources of their vulnerabilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The goal of this research is to build a deeper and more reliable understanding of the LLM behaviour. The first possible research direction involves designing a benchmark that can accurately measure both advanced capabilities (such as reasoning, planning, understanding, math or multilingual capabilities) and common failure modes and vulnerabilities (including hallucination, brittleness, tendency or ease of generating problematic content such as misinformation). An important focus should be on making the benchmark robust to the current issues of data contamination and minimising the resources needed to run it. The second possible research direction leverages mechanistic interpretability to study the internal structures that drive the LLM behaviours. These tools will be used to investigate why specific vulnerabilities arise, how the capabilities arise, and whether targeted interventions can reduce failures while maintaining core capabilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By integrating robust behavioural benchmarking with mechanistic insights, the project aims to produce a more principled understanding of how LLMs work and how they can be made safer and more reliable. The application domain includes (but are not limited to) low-resource tasks,\u00a0 multilingual understanding, misinformation and other problematic behaviour detection (narrative detection) or even LLM user simulation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Relevant publications:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vykopal, I., Pikuliak, M., Srba, I., Moro, R., Macko, D., and Bielikova, M., 2023. 2024. Disinformation Capabilities of Large Language Models. In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 14830\u201314847, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/2024.acl-long.793\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/2024.acl-long.793\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zugecova, A., Macko, D., Srba, I., Moro, R., Kopal, J., Marcin\u010dinov\u00e1, K., and Mesar\u010d\u00edk, M., 2025. Evaluation of LLM Vulnerabilities to Being Misused for Personalized Disinformation Generation. In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 780\u2013797, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/2025.acl-long.38\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/2025.acl-long.38\/<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The research will be performed at the Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies (KInIT,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> https:\/\/kinit.sk<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) in Bratislava in cooperation with researchers from highly respected research units. A combined (external) form of study and full employment at KInIT is expected.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mentors\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5>Supervising team<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"members-wrap members-grid members-grid-5\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"member\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"picture\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Maria_Bielikova-2-255x341.png\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 255px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 255\/341;\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5>M\u00e1ria Bielikov\u00e1<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"position\">Lead researcher, KInIT<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--<a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/mentor\/maria-bielikova\/\" class=\"more\">Viac<\/a>-->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"member\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"picture\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/pecher-1_51330460560_o-255x341.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 255px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 255\/341;\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5>Branislav Pecher<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"position\">Addressing small labeled data in machine learning training<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--<a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/mentor\/branislav-pecher\/\" class=\"more\">Viac<\/a>-->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"heading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4>Low-Resource Text Processing with the Help of Data Synthesis<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"desc\"><p><b>Supervisor:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Jakub \u0160imko (supervisor, KInIT),<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Supervising team:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Jakub \u0160imko (supervisor, KInIT), J\u00e1n \u010cegi\u0148 (KInIT)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Keywords:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> low-resource AI, LLM, data synthesis, data augmentation, text processing<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"more-info\">Viac info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"less-info\">Menej info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite the proliferation of large language models (LLMs) with their proclaimed universal applicability, many tasks of automatic text processing remain insufficiently solved. Tasks that need to be solved in low-resource languages are solved with lower success. Tasks that require sensitivity to details, context, or fresh information also remain problematic. Examples at the intersection of both these dimensions include processing data from social media for the purpose of detecting narratives, analyzing discourse, detecting toxic content, detecting organized influence campaigns, revealing manipulation, supporting fact-checking, or auditing social media recommenders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since the above problem can be understood as a lack of data for specific tasks, one of the solutions can be to use the capabilities of LLMs, but not directly as task solvers, but rather for generation or augmentation of data samples. Using these, specialized (smaller) models could be created for specific tasks. The advantage of such an approach is a higher degree of control over the final model (we can control the generated data), as well as a lower price and footprint of the final model (it is smaller). On the other hand, the disadvantage of such an approach is its lower straightforwardness and methodological ambiguity.That ambiguity, however, offers an opportunity for research.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The topic of the dissertation envisions research of methods and methodologies for creating automatic approaches for classification (or other automatic processing) of texts in heterogeneous and unstable domains. These are characterized by a lack of resources,\u00a0 primarily labeled data, but secondarily also limited computing power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Relevant publications:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cegin, J., Simko, J. and Brusilovsky, P., 2023. ChatGPT to Replace Crowdsourcing of Paraphrases for Intent Classification: Higher Diversity and Comparable Model Robustness. Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/2023.emnlp-main.117\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/2023.emnlp-main.117\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cegin, J., Pecher, B., Simko, J., Srba, I., Bielikov\u00e1, M. and Brusilovsky, P., 2024, August. Effects of diversity incentives on sample diversity and downstream model performance in LLM-based text augmentation. In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/2024.acl-long.710\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/2024.acl-long.710\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The research will be performed at the Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies (KInIT, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/kinit.sk<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) in Bratislava in cooperation with industrial partners or researchers from highly respected research units. A combined (external) form of study and full employment at KInIT is expected.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mentors\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5>Supervising team<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"members-wrap members-grid members-grid-5\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"member\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"picture\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/simko-jakub-web_51330185419_o-255x341.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 255px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 255\/341;\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5>Jakub \u0160imko<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"position\">Lead researcher, KInIT<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--<a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/mentor\/jakub-simko\/\" class=\"more\">Viac<\/a>-->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"member\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"picture\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/cegin-web-255x341.png\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 255px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 255\/341;\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5>J\u00e1n \u010cegi\u0148<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"position\">Machine learning with human in the loop<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--<a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/mentor\/jan-cegin\/\" class=\"more\">Viac<\/a>-->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"heading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4>Meta-Evaluation of Multilingual Texts by Large Language Models<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"desc\"><p><b>Supervisor:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Dominik Macko (supervisor, KInIT)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Keywords:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> generative AI, large language models, metrics and evaluation, machine learning<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"more-info\">Viac info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"less-info\">Menej info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The multilingual capabilities of large language models (LLMs) enable us to generate texts in many languages, or even to analyze the existing multilingual texts. However, there are missing standard methods and metrics to measure the quality of multilingual texts. Analysis, evaluation, and annotation of such texts by humans is costly and time-consuming, while the replicability of the annotations is questionable (due to ensuring the annotators consistency). In some languages, it is quite difficult to obtain human annotations, while also balancing the level of expertise and demographic diversity of annotators across languages. For a while, the researchers are experimenting with using LLMs themselves to evaluate various aspects of text quality (e.g., coherence, grammar correctness, linguistic acceptability) in multiple languages, whether the texts are generated by language models or written by humans. Even the LLM annotations can be biased due to internal biases of the meta-evaluation models caused by training data.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is important to continually increase the robustness of meta-evaluation (to limit biases and increase objectivity), whether by increasing the number of evaluation LLMs or by ensuring diversity via LLM (person-like) behavior modifications. The feasibility of the meta-evaluation method must be considered by assessing the computational efficiency and overall practical usability. Also, it is required to measure the correlation between meta-evaluation and human judgement and to evaluate for which aspects of text quality and in which languages is such meta-evaluation a suitable and usable alternative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Relevant publications:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Macko, D., Kopal, J., Moro, R., and Srba, I., 2025. MultiSocial: Multilingual Benchmark of Machine-Generated Text Detection of Social-Media Texts. In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 727\u2013752, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/2025.acl-long.36\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/2025.acl-long.36\/<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zugecova, A., Macko, D., Srba, I., Moro, R., Kopal, J., Marcin\u010dinov\u00e1, K., and Mesar\u010d\u00edk, M., 2025. Evaluation of LLM Vulnerabilities to Being Misused for Personalized Disinformation Generation. In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 780\u2013797, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/2025.acl-long.38\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/2025.acl-long.38\/<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The research will be performed at the Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies (KInIT, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/kinit.sk<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) in Bratislava in cooperation with industrial partners or researchers from highly respected research units involved in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/research\/#european-projects\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">international projects<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. A combined (external) form of study and full employment at KInIT is expected.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mentors\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5>Supervising team<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"members-wrap members-grid members-grid-5\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"member\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"picture\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/macko-web_51330462885_o-255x341.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 255px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 255\/341;\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5>Dominik Macko<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"position\">Senior researcher, KInIT<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--<a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/mentor\/dominik-macko\/\" class=\"more\">Viac<\/a>-->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"heading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4>Improving Human\u2013LLM Interaction<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"desc\"><p><b>Supervisor:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> R\u00f3bert M\u00f3ro (supervisor, KInIT)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Keywords:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> generative AI, large language models, human-LLM interaction, LLM alignment<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"more-info\">Viac info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"less-info\">Menej info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used for a wide range of tasks and in various contexts in an interactive (chat-like) manner. The challenge is to make this interaction aligned with human expectations and values while avoiding reinforcing biases or negative social behavior of a model such as sycophancy, manipulativeness, etc. To do this, we need to be able to measure the extent of a positive or a negative behavior of the model and (ideally) have large datasets of human-LLM interactions together with human preferences that can be used to tune the models. For the latter, synthetic data generated by models trained on actual users\u2019 data can sometimes be used instead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The main goal is to improve the human-LLM interaction by using human inputs (such as their preferences) to fine-tune LLMs\u2019 conversational capabilities while controlling for unwanted behavior (such as biases, sycophancy, manipulativeness, etc.). Alternatively, the topic can focus on measurement of the negative or positive social behavior of LLMs in various situations and contexts, or on improving safety of the models while taking the context and user preferences into account.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The application domains are diverse, including (but not limited to) auditing of LLMs\u2019 safety with respect to various user groups (including children and young adults), misuse of LLMs for disinformation generation, or credibility signals detection and assessment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Relevant publications:<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aneta Zugecova, Dominik Macko, Ivan Srba, Robert Moro, Jakub Kop\u00e1l, Katar\u00edna Marcin\u010dinov\u00e1, and Mat\u00fa\u0161 Mesar\u010d\u00edk. 2025. Evaluation of LLM Vulnerabilities to Being Misused for Personalized Disinformation Generation. In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 780\u2013797, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/2025.acl-long.38\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/2025.acl-long.38\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ivan Srba, Olesya Razuvayevskaya, Jo\u00e3o A. Leite, Robert Moro, Ipek Baris Schlicht, Sara Tonelli, Francisco Moreno Garc\u00eda, Santiago Barrio Lottmann, Denis Teyssou, Valentin Porcellini, Carolina Scarton, Kalina Bontcheva, and Maria Bielikova. 2025. A Survey on Automatic Credibility Assessment Using Textual Credibility Signals in the Era of Large Language Models. ACM Trans. Intell. Syst. Technol. Just Accepted (September 2025). <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3770077\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3770077<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The research will be performed at the Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies (KInIT, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/kinit.sk<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) in Bratislava in collaboration with industrial partners or researchers from highly respected research units involved in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/research\/#european-projects\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">international projects<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. A combined (external) form of study and full employment at KInIT is expected.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mentors\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5>Supervising team<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"members-wrap members-grid members-grid-5\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"member\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"picture\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/moro-web_51330188664_o-255x341.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 255px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 255\/341;\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5>R\u00f3bert M\u00f3ro<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"position\">Senior researcher, KInIT<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--<a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/mentor\/robert-moro\/\" class=\"more\">Viac<\/a>-->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"heading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4>User Activity Prediction in Social Media Environments<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"desc\"><p><b>Supervisor: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Ivan Srba (supervisor, KInIT)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Keywords: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> user interaction prediction, generative AI, large language models<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"more-info\">Viac info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"less-info\">Menej info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The proliferation of AI-driven recommendation systems on social media has intensified the need for methods that can anticipate how users engage with presented content. While current \u201cdigital twin\u201d approaches simulate the behaviour of specific individuals, this PhD project is motivated by the need to predict the next interaction of user archetypes, i.e., personas defined by demographic and interest attributes. With the rapid evolution of generative AI models, including LLMs and multimodal systems, their capabilities to forecast user actions such as clicking, liking, skipping, or dwelling on social-media content remain unexplored.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The core objective of the PhD research is to investigate and compare AI-based approaches for predicting the next user interaction in social media environments, focusing on user archetypes rather than individuals. To do this, the work will explore generative modelling strategies (e.g., LLM-based predictors), multimodal encoders, and hybrid architectures capable of processing and reacting to streamed online content. A significant part of the thesis will address real-time content annotation, identifying which text\/image\/video attributes best predict behavioural responses, and how Parameter-Efficient Finetuning Techniques (PEFTs) can be used to adapt models rapidly and cost-effectively. The project will also analyse evaluation methodologies for sequential user-interaction forecasts, including simulation-based benchmarks that reflect realistic platform dynamics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The domain of application will be algorithmic auditing, a research practice that evaluates how algorithmic systems operate and whether they comply with legal, ethical, or performance expectations. More accurate next-interaction prediction models can make these auditing approaches substantially more authentic, enabling simulated agents to behave in a more organic, human-like manner when interacting with recommender systems. Such improvements can strengthen audit validity, allow testing at scale, and produce a deeper understanding of the impact that recommender design has on different user archetypes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Relevant publications:<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ivan Srba, Branislav Pecher, Jakub Simko, Robert Moro, Maria Bielikova. 2025. Model-based Algorithmic Auditing of Social Media AI Algorithms. In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Proceedings of Fourth European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Vol. 294. 439-445. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/proceedings.mlr.press\/v294\/srba25a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/proceedings.mlr.press\/v294\/srba25a.html<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Matej Mosnar, Adam Skurla, Branislav Pecher, Matus Tibensky, Jan Jakubcik, Adrian Bindas, Peter Sakalik, and Ivan Srba. 2025. Revisiting Algorithmic Audits of TikTok: Poor Reproducibility and Short-term Validity of Findings. In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR &#8217;25)<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 3357\u20133366. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3726302.3730293\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3726302.3730293<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The research will be performed at the Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies (KInIT, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/kinit.sk<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) in Bratislava in collaboration with industrial partners or researchers from highly respected research units involved in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/research\/#european-projects\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">international projects<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. A combined (external) form of study and full employment at KInIT is expected.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mentors\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5>Supervising team<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"members-wrap members-grid members-grid-5\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"member\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"picture\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/srba-web_51329673733_o-255x341.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 255px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 255\/341;\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5>Ivan Srba<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"position\">Senior researcher, KInIT<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--<a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/mentor\/ivan-srba\/\" class=\"more\">Viac<\/a>-->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"heading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4>Using Machine Learning to Solve Energy and Environmental Problems<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"desc\"><p><b>Supervisor:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Viera Rozinajov\u00e1 (supervisor, KInIT)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Supervising team:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Viera Rozinajov\u00e1 (supervisor, KInIT),\u00a0 Anna Bou Ezzeddine (KInIT), Gabriela Grmanov\u00e1 (KInIT)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Keywords:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> machine learning models, scientific machine learning, knowledge representation, transfer learning, energy domain, environment<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"more-info\">Viac info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"less-info\">Menej info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Current challenges that the energy sector faces today include maintaining stability in the energy grid, aggregation of flexibility, operation of energy communities, smart charging of electric vehicles, and efficient use of battery storage. Renewable resources are strongly dependent on weather, so weather prediction is also a focus of interest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ENVIRO team at KInIT is dedicated to the aforementioned tasks, whereas the proposed solutions are based on machine learning and artificial intelligence. We investigate and experiment with various methods such as taking into account physical laws in machine learning models (physics-informed machine learning), transfer or federative learning, as well as reinforcement learning, a currently popular approach used to optimize decision-making in a dynamic environment. Foundational models and their comparison with traditional approaches also offer an interesting direction of research. We solve tasks that process time series as well as image data using computer vision methods.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The aim of the PhD thesis will be to propose a solution to a selected energy or environmental problem (for example, flexibility aggregation or climate modeling\/weather forecasting) by applying advanced artificial intelligence approaches. The selection of appropriate machine learning methods will depend on the specifics of the problem being solved and the choice of the doctoral candidate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Relevant publications:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Javed, H., Eid, F., El-Sappagh, S. et al. Sustainable energy management in the AI era: a comprehensive analysis of ML and DL approaches. Computing 107, 132 (2025).<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s00607-025-01485-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s00607-025-01485-0<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pavl\u00edk, Peter, et al. &#8222;Fully differentiable Lagrangian convolutional neural network for physics-informed precipitation nowcasting.&#8220; Applied Computing and Geosciences (2025): 100296. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2590197425000783\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2590197425000783<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The research will be performed at the Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies (KInIT, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/kinit.sk<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) in Bratislava in cooperation with industrial partners or researchers from highly respected research units from abroad. A combined (external) form of study and full employment at KInIT is expected.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mentors\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5>Supervising team<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"members-wrap members-grid members-grid-5\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"member\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"picture\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Viera_Rozinajova-1-255x341.png\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 255px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 255\/341;\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5>Viera Rozinajov\u00e1<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"position\">Lead researcher, KInIT<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--<a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/mentor\/viera-rozinajova\/\" class=\"more\">Viac<\/a>-->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"member\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"picture\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ezzeddine-1_51330193439_o-255x341.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 255px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 255\/341;\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5>Anna Bou Ezzeddine<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"position\">Senior researcher, KInIT<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--<a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/mentor\/anna-bou-ezzeddine\/\" class=\"more\">Viac<\/a>-->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"member\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"picture\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/grmanova-web-255x341.png\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 255px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 255\/341;\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5>Gabriela Grmanov\u00e1<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"position\">Senior researcher, KInIT<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--<a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/mentor\/gabriela-grmanova\/\" class=\"more\">Viac<\/a>-->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"heading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4>Improving Natural language Processing<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"desc\"><p><b>Supervisor: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Mari\u00e1n \u0160imko (supervisor, KInIT)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Supervising team: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Mari\u00e1n \u0160imko (supervisor, KInIT), Jana Kosecka (George Mason University)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Keywords: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0large language models, natural language processing, trustworthy NLP, multilingual learning, information extraction<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"more-info\">Viac info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"less-info\">Menej info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rapid progress of large language models (LLMs) and other foundation models has transformed natural language processing (NLP), enabling powerful applications such as conversational agents, code assistants, and advanced information access systems. These technologies already affect everyday life and are reshaping how organisations work with text and knowledge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite their success, LLMs still face important open challenges. Many models behave as black boxes, can hallucinate content, reproduce social biases, or fail when moved to new domains, tasks, or low-resource languages. At the same time, there is growing demand for models that are trustworthy, efficient, and easy to adapt, while respecting data, safety, and regulatory constraints.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This PhD project will investigate methods for understanding, adapting, and controlling large language models, with a particular focus on trustworthiness and low-resource \/ domain-specific NLP. The work can combine theory, modelling, and practical experimentation on real-world datasets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Illustrative research challenges include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Properties of LLMs \u2013 analysing and mitigating hallucinations, robustness issues, and failure modes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trustworthy NLP \u2013 bias detection and mitigation, safety and reliability, explainability and interpretability of model decisions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adapting LLMs to specific contexts and tasks \u2013 e.g. parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), instruction tuning, or continual learning.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Advanced learning techniques \u2013 transfer and multilingual learning, active learning, low-shot and low-resource methods for under-represented languages.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Domain-specific NLP applications \u2013 information extraction and text classification for specialised domains (e.g. legal, financial, technical or customer-support texts), improving dialog quality in conversational agents, or building task-oriented assistants.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The topic offers substantial flexibility and can be tailored to the candidate\u2019s interests, ranging from more theoretical work on model behaviour to application-driven research in collaboration with academic or industrial partners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Relevant publications:<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vykopal, I., Ostermann, S., Simko, M. Soft Language Prompts for Language Transfer. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the NAACL: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 10294-10313, ACL, 2025. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.18653\/v1\/2025.naacl-long.517\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.18653\/v1\/2025.naacl-long.517<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pikuliak, M., Hr\u010dkov\u00e1, A., Ore\u0161ko, \u0160., \u0160imko, M. Women Are Beautiful, Men Are Leaders: Gender Stereotypes in Machine Translation and Language Modeling. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, pages 3060-3083, ACL, 2024. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.18653\/v1\/2024.findings-emnlp.173\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.18653\/v1\/2024.findings-emnlp.173<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The research will be performed at the Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies (KInIT, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/kinit.sk<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) in Bratislava in cooperation with industrial partners or researchers from highly respected research units from abroad. A combined (external) form of study and full employment at KInIT is expected.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mentors\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5>Supervising team<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"members-wrap members-grid members-grid-5\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"member\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"picture\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/simko-marian-2_51330185179_o-3-255x341.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 255px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 255\/341;\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5>Mari\u00e1n \u0160imko<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"position\">Lead researcher, KInIT<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--<a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/mentor\/marian-simko\/\" class=\"more\">Viac<\/a>-->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"member\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"picture\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/jkosecka-headshot2_new-255x341.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 255px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 255\/341;\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5>Jana Kosecka<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"position\">Professor, George Mason University, USA<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--<a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/mentor\/jana-kosecka\/\" class=\"more\">Viac<\/a>-->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"heading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4>Competent Reasoning and Reliable Execution \u2013 Towards Truly Capable LLMs<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"desc\"><p><b>Supervisor:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 Michal Gregor (supervisor, KInIT)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Keywords:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> large language models, AI, reasoning, machine learning, deep learning, LLM limitations, reinforcement learning, mechanistic interpretability<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"more-info\">Viac info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"less-info\">Menej info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Large language models (LLMs) are currently driving much of the progress in the area of artificial intelligence, especially due to their ability to perform a wide range of tasks zero-shot \u2013 based on a natural language description of the task \u2013 and due to the large amount of world knowledge they possess.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the current generation of LLMs still struggles in several important ways that bar them from becoming truly capable at a wide range of challenging tasks; these struggles include e.g. their:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Limited ability to correctly and robustly <\/span><b>execute algorithms<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Even frontier models currently struggle with correct execution of algorithms, especially when such execution is prolonged. Even models that theoretically support input contexts with millions of tokens, struggle to maintain accuracy as the context length grows.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Limited ability to bootstrap<\/span><b> complex reasoning<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: While models are now being explicitly trained to perform deliberative reasoning, multiple works demonstrate that the current generation of training methods used in this context (such as GRPO and GSPO) do not successfully bootstrap to new, improved reasoning skills \u2013 rather, they just reinforce reasoning paths that the base model already knew from pretraining.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apart from these, there is also the limited ability to efficiently learn from experience (which is a component in how humans achieve true competence \u2013 we possess powerful priors, but we can also adapt quickly) and many other struggles. While this is \u2013 to a very considerable extent \u2013 true of all current models, the issues are typically much more pronounced for small models. This, of course, has serious implications for a lot of applications that require compact models, which can be run locally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The aim of this research is to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Diagnose:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Examine where the current models and training approaches struggle and why. In this phase, the student can draw upon existing insights (such as works on over-squashing and representational collapse in transformers), form their own hypotheses and validate them using the tools of mechanistic interpretability, use analogies with cases where similar approaches work (e.g. reinforcement learning methods like AlphaZero and MuZero \u2013 or even analogies from cognitive science regarding different types of human memory and such), etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Fix:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Use insights formed in the diagnosing phase to mitigate some of the issues \u2013 by adjusting the identified weaknesses, such as certain constraints imposed by the architecture, the training methodology, the training data and how it is preprocessed, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Relevant publications:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gurgurov, Daniil, Michal Gregor, Josef van Genabith, Simon Ostermann. &#8222;On Multilingual Encoder Language Model Compression for Low-Resource Languages&#8220;. International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing &amp; Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vykopal, I., Pikuliak, M., Ostermann, S., Anikina, T., Gregor, M. and \u0160imko, M., 2025. Large Language Models for Multilingual Previously Fact-Checked Claim Detection. EMNLP 2025 (pp. 15741\u201315765).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The research will be performed at the Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies (KInIT, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/kinit.sk<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) in Bratislava in cooperation with industrial partners or researchers from highly respected research units from abroad. A combined (external) form of study and full employment at KInIT is expected.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mentors\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5>Supervising team<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"members-wrap members-grid members-grid-5\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"member\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"picture\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Michal_Gregor-1-255x341.png\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 255px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 255\/341;\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5>Michal Gregor<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"position\">Lead researcher, KInIT<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--<a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/mentor\/michal-gregor\/\" class=\"more\">Viac<\/a>-->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"member\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"picture\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/simko-marian-2_51330185179_o-3-255x341.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 255px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 255\/341;\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5>Mari\u00e1n \u0160imko<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"position\">Lead researcher, KInIT<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--<a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/mentor\/marian-simko\/\" class=\"more\">Viac<\/a>-->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"deadlines\" class=\"element acf-cta squares font-color-light\">\n<section id=\"deadlines\" class=\"cta  squares font-color-light lazyload\"  style=\"background-image:inherit;\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cta-background-1-1024x683.jpg)\">\n        <div class=\"wrapper-out\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wrapper-in\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"in cf\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"element-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner without-picture\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>Deadlines<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Express your interest \u2014 anytime (for academic year 2026\/2027 no later than 31.3.2026)<\/strong><br \/>\nIf you\u2019re interested in the PhD study program at KInIT, let us know as soon as possible.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Participate in testing \u2014 April 2026<\/strong><br \/>\nTest your knowledge and match with KInIT values.<br \/>\nYou\u2019ll take part in systematic selection steps such as team activity, knowledge review test, etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Find a topic and a supervisor match \u2014 May 2026<\/strong><br \/>\nWe\u2019ll get back to you and organize a matchmaking for a research topic and\/or supervisor.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wait for the decision \u2014 July 2026<\/strong><br \/>\nWait for the admission processes at KInIT and FIT VUT Brno (don&#8217;t worry, we&#8217;ll guide you through the application submission process) to finish. We\u2019ll let you know our final decision.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Start at KInIT<br \/>\n<\/strong>If we choose you, we\u2019ll provide you with further information on your work contract at KInIT.<br \/>\nPhD Study at FIT VUT Brno officially starts on <strong>1 September 2026<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section> \n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"how-it-works\" class=\"element acf-accordion white-items\">\n<section id=\"how-it-works\" class=\"accordion  white-items\" style=\"background-color: #ebf7f9;\">\n\t<div class=\"wrapper-out\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wrapper-in\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"in cf\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"element-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"headline\"><h2>How the PhD study at KInIT works<\/h2><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion-wrap accordion-type1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"heading has-number\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"number\"><span>1<\/span><\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4>Work at KInIT &#038; study at FIT VUT<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"more-info\">Viac info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"less-info\">Menej info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content has-number\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>We provide PhD study in collaboration with the Faculty of Information Technology at VUT, Brno (Czechia). You\u2019ll be enrolled at the faculty as an external doctoral student. After you\u2019re accepted for study, you\u2019ll work as a full-time employee at our institute. Your doctoral research will be your primary job role.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"heading has-number\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"number\"><span>2<\/span><\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4>Carry out research in a selected topic<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"more-info\">Viac info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"less-info\">Menej info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content has-number\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>You can choose from multiple interesting <a href=\"#dissertation-topics\">topics of your dissertation<\/a>. They are based on different mentoring schemes:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Research topics supported by industrial research partners<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Research topics mentored by top scientists from abroad<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Research topics connected to international projects<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>You\u2019ll have access to an expert supervising team. Depending on the selected scheme, it can include industrial partners and\/or a scientist from a renowned foreign university.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"heading has-number\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"number\"><span>3<\/span><\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4>Join our research teams <\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"more-info\">Viac info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"less-info\">Menej info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content has-number\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>While working at our institute you\u2019ll be a member of a KInIT research team. The teams collaborate on various projects or on other activities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/research\/natural-language-processing\/\">Natural Language Processing<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/research\/web-user-data-processing\/\">Web &amp; User Data Processing<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/research\/green-and-secure-environment\/\"><strong>Green and Secure Environment<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/research\/ethics-and-human-values-in-technology\/\">Ethics &amp; Human Values in Technology<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"heading has-number\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"number\"><span>4<\/span><\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4>Change the world<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"more-info\">Viac info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"less-info\">Menej info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content has-number\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The rest is up to you! Turn your curiosity and passion for intelligent technologies into new discoveries or inventions making the world a better place.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"our-mentors\" class=\"element acf-mentors padding-top-0 margin-bottom-0\">\n<section id=\"our-mentors\" class=\"block-mentors  padding-top-0 margin-bottom-0\" >\n\t<div class=\"wrapper-out\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wrapper-in\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"in cf\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"element-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"headline\"><h2>KInIT supervisors<\/h2><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"tabs-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"tabs\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#tab-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Maria_Bielikova-2-255x341.png\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 255px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 255\/341;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"title\">M\u00e1ria Bielikov\u00e1<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"position\">Lead researcher, KInIT<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"more\">Viac info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#tab-2\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Michal_Gregor-1-255x341.png\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 255px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 255\/341;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"title\">Michal Gregor<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"position\">Lead researcher, KInIT<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"more\">Viac info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#tab-3\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Michal_Kompan-1-255x341.png\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 255px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 255\/341;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"title\">Michal Kompan<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"position\">Lead researcher, KInIT<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"more\">Viac info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#tab-4\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Viera_Rozinajova-1-255x341.png\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 255px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 255\/341;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"title\">Viera Rozinajov\u00e1<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"position\">Lead researcher, KInIT<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"more\">Viac info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"tab-1\" class=\"tab\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p>M\u00e1ria Bielikov\u00e1 is an expert researcher at KInIT. She focuses on human-computer interaction analysis, user modeling and personalization. Recently, she has been working in data analysis and modeling of antisocial behavior on the Web. She is active in discussions on trustworthy AI at the national and European levels. Maria has supervised 20 successful doctoral graduates to date. She co-authored 70+ journal publications, 250+ conference papers, received 6,700+ citations (Google Scholar h-index 37), and serves on the editorial board of two CC journals. She has been the principal investigator in 40+ research projects.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div id=\"\" class=\"element core-button\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/o-nas\/maria-bielikova-2\/\">Profile<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"tab-2\" class=\"tab\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p>Michal Gregor is an expert researcher at KInIT. He focuses especially on artificial neural networks and deep learning, on reinforcement learning, and more recently on multi-modal learning and learning that involves language supervision. Michal also has experience in other areas of AI such as metaheuristic optimization methods, representation of uncertain knowledge, probabilistic models and more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div id=\"\" class=\"element core-button\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/member\/michal-gregor\/\">Profile<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"tab-3\" class=\"tab\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p>Michal Kompan is an expert researcher at KInIT. He focuses on recommender systems, machine learning, user modeling, and information retrieval. His research is focused on predictive modeling and customer behavior (e.g., churn prediction, next-item recommendation), as well as content-based adaptive models. Michal serves as a reviewer or\/and program committee member at several international conferences, such as RecSys, SIGIR, WWW, ADBIS, Hypertext, UMAP and SMAP.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div id=\"\" class=\"element core-button\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/member\/michal-kompan\/\">Profile<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"tab-4\" class=\"tab\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p>Viera Rozinajov\u00e1 is an expert researcher at KInIT. She is focusing on intelligent data analysis, particularly predictive modeling, cluster analysis, anomaly detection and optimization. Before her employment at KInIT, she worked as an associate professor at the Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, where she headed up the Big Data Analysis group. She has authored\/co-authored more than 70 publications in scientific journals and conferences and has participated in more than 25 national and international research projects and has led several of them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div id=\"\" class=\"element core-button\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/member\/viera-rozinajova\/\">Profile<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section> \n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element acf-mentors padding-top-0 margin-bottom-0\">\n<section class=\"block-mentors  padding-top-0 margin-bottom-0\" >\n\t<div class=\"wrapper-out\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wrapper-in\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"in cf\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"element-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"tabs-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"tabs\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#tab-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/simko-jakub-web_51330185419_o-255x341.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 255px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 255\/341;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"title\">Jakub \u0160imko<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"position\">Lead researcher, KInIT<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"more\">Viac info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#tab-2\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/simko-marian-2_51330185179_o-3-255x341.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 255px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 255\/341;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"title\">Mari\u00e1n \u0160imko<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"position\">Lead researcher, KInIT<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"more\">Viac info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#tab-3\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/srba-web_51329673733_o-255x341.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 255px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 255\/341;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"title\">Ivan Srba<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"position\">Senior researcher, KInIT<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"more\">Viac info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#tab-4\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/moro-web_51330188664_o-255x341.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 255px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 255\/341;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"title\">R\u00f3bert M\u00f3ro<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"position\">Senior researcher, KInIT<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"more\">Viac info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"tab-1\" class=\"tab\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p>Jakub \u0160imko is an expert researcher at KInIT, where he also leads the Web and User Data Processing team. Jakub focuses on the intersection of human computation, machine learning and user modeling. He has recently been working on social media algorithm auditing, misinformation modeling and promotes interdisciplinary approaches to computer science research. He graduated from Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, where, after receiving his PhD, he worked for 7 years as a researcher and teacher. He co-authored more than 30 internationally recognized publications, together receiving more than 350 citations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div id=\"\" class=\"element core-button\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/member\/jakub-simko\/\">Profile<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"tab-2\" class=\"tab\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p>Mari\u00e1n \u0160imko is an expert researcher at KInIT. Mari\u00e1n focuses on natural language processing, information extraction, low-resource language processing and trustworthiness of neural models. He is a former vice-dean for Master\u2019s study and alumni co-operation at the Slovak University of Technology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div id=\"\" class=\"element core-button\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/member\/marian-simko\/\">Profile<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"tab-3\" class=\"tab\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p>Ivan Srba is a senior researcher at KInIT. Ivan has expertise in artificial intelligence and machine learning, with a focus on data emerging from user behavior on social computing and collective intelligence systems, such as social networks, knowledge sharing systems and e-learning. His current primary research interest is in countering online disinformation and misinformation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div id=\"\" class=\"element core-button\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/member\/ivan-srba\/\">Profile<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"tab-4\" class=\"tab\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p>R\u00f3bert M\u00f3ro is a senior researcher at KInIT. He focuses on user modeling, personalization and machine learning. His current primary research interest is in countering online disinformation and modeling users and human-computer interaction on the Web. He has participated in several international research projects (including Horizon Europe) and served as a program committee member at several conferences (e.g., ACM UMAP, ACM ETRA, IJCAI).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div id=\"\" class=\"element core-button\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/member\/robert-moro\/\">Profile<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section> \n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element acf-mentors padding-top-0\">\n<section class=\"block-mentors  padding-top-0\" >\n\t<div class=\"wrapper-out\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wrapper-in\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"in cf\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"element-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"tabs-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"tabs\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#tab-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/macko-web_51330462885_o-255x341.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 255px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 255\/341;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"title\">Dominik Macko<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"position\">Senior researcher, KInIT<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"more\">Viac info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"tab-1\" class=\"tab\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p>Dominik focuses on energy efficiency and security in the Internet of Things environment, from a communication point of view as well as from a device point of view. He focuses on reduction of unnecessary control overhead to create a secure channel and transmit data by strictly power-managed sensor nodes. Also, he deals with anomaly and intrusion detection in IP networks based on communication statistics. Recently, he focuses on robust detection of multilingual machine-generated text.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div id=\"\" class=\"element core-button\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/member\/dominik-macko\/\">Profile<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section> \n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div id=\"external-mentors\" class=\"element acf-mentors margin-bottom-0\">\n<section id=\"external-mentors\" class=\"block-mentors  margin-bottom-0\" >\n\t<div class=\"wrapper-out\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wrapper-in\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"in cf\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"element-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"headline\"><h2>External mentors<\/h2><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"tabs-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"tabs\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#tab-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/PBrusilovsky_new-255x341.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 255px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 255\/341;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"title\">Peter Brusilovsky<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"position\">Professor, University of Pittsburgh, USA<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"more\">Viac info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#tab-2\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/MicrosoftTeams-image-5.png\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 183px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 183\/247;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"title\">Peter Dolog<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"position\">Associate Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"more\">Viac info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#tab-3\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/jkosecka-headshot2_new-255x341.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 255px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 255\/341;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"title\">Jana Kosecka<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"position\">Professor, George Mason University, USA<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"more\">Viac info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#tab-4\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Brano_kveton_new-255x341.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 255px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 255\/341;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"title\">Branislav Kveton<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"position\">Principal Scientist, Adobe Research, USA<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"more\">Viac info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"tab-1\" class=\"tab\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p>Peter Brusilovsky is a Professor at the School of Computing and Information,&nbsp;University of Pittsburgh, where he directs the Personalized Adaptive Web Systems (PAWS) lab. His research is focused on user-centered intelligent systems in the areas of adaptive learning, recommender systems, and personalized health. He is a recipient of Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, NSF CAREER Award, and Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair. Peter served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE&nbsp; Trans. on Learning Technologies, and a program chair for several conferences including RecSys.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=s6RpNfAAAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Google Scholar h-index &#8211; 88 (01\/2026)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/meet-peter-brusilovsky-kinit-external-mentor\/\">Meet Peter Brusilovsky<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div id=\"\" class=\"element core-button\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pitt.edu\/~peterb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Profile<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"tab-2\" class=\"tab\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p>Peter Dolog is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Denmark. His current research interests include machine learning and data mining in the areas of user behavior analysis and prediction, recommender systems, preference learning, and personalization. Peter is a senior member of ACM, served as a senior program commitee member of AI related conferences as well as a general chair of UMAP, HT and Web Engineering conferences. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=gCafUI0AAAAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Google Scholar h-index &#8211; 33 (01\/2026)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/meet-peter-dolog-kinit-external-mentor\/\">Meet Peter Dolog<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div id=\"\" class=\"element core-button\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/peterdolog.wordpress.com\/\">Profile<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"tab-3\" class=\"tab\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p>Jana Kosecka is a Professor at the George Mason University. She is interested in computational models of vision systems, acquisition of static and dynamic models of environments by means of visual sensing, high-level semantic scene understanding and human-computer interaction. She held visiting positions at UC Berkeley, Stanford University, Google and Nokia Research, and served as Program chair, Area chair or senior member of editorial board for&nbsp; leading conferences in the field CVPR, ICCV, ICRA.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p>Jana is currently mentor of our PhD student: <a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/member\/ivana-benova\/\">Ivana Be\u0148ov\u00e1<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=sQ6l4sMAAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Google Scholar h-index &#8211; 52 (01\/2026)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/meet-jana-kosecka-kinit-external-mentor\/\">Meet Jana Kosecka<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div id=\"\" class=\"element core-button\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/cs.gmu.edu\/~kosecka\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Profile<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"tab-4\" class=\"tab\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p>Branislav Kveton is a Principal Scientist at Adobe research. He proposes, analyzes, and applies algorithms that learn incrementally, run in real time, and converge to near-optimal solutions as they learn. He made several fundamental contributions to the field of multi-armed bandits. His earlier work focused on structured bandit problems with graphs, submodularity, and low-rank matrices, and ranked lists. His recent work focuses on making bandit algorithms practical<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=CZaDvPgAAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Google Scholar h-index &#8211; 45 (01\/2026)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/meet-branislav-kveton-kinit-external-mentor\/\">Meet Branislav Kveton<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div id=\"\" class=\"element core-button\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"http:\/\/bkveton.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Profile<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section> \n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element acf-mentors margin-bottom-0\">\n<section class=\"block-mentors  margin-bottom-0\" >\n\t<div class=\"wrapper-out\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wrapper-in\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"in cf\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"element-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"tabs-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"tabs\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#tab-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Peter-Richtarik-Photo_new-255x341.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 255px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 255\/341;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"title\">Peter Richt\u00e1rik<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"position\">Professor, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"more\">Viac info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#tab-2\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/takac_new-255x341.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 255px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 255\/341;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"title\">Martin Tak\u00e1\u010d<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"position\">Associate Professor, Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, United Arab Emirates<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"more\">Viac info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#tab-3\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/tino_2_new-255x341.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 255px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 255\/341;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"title\">Peter Tino<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"position\">Professor, University of Birmingham, UK<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"more\">Viac info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#tab-4\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Symeon-Akis-Papadopoulos1-255x341.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 255px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 255\/341;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"title\">Simeon (Akis) Papadopoulos<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"position\">Researcher, CERTH<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"more\">Viac info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"tab-1\" class=\"tab\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p>Peter Richt\u00e1rik is a Professor of Computer Science &amp; Mathematics at KAUST. He is one of the founders and a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute. Through his work on randomized and distributed optimization algorithms, he has contributed to the foundations of machine learning and federated learning. He serves as an Area Chair of leading machine learning conferences, including NeurIPS, ICML and ICLR.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=pGh242UAAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Google Scholar h-index &#8211; 76 (01\/2026)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/meet-peter-richtarik-kinit-external-mentor\/\">Meet Peter Richtarik<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div id=\"\" class=\"element core-button\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/richtarik.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Profile<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"tab-2\" class=\"tab\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p>Martin Tak\u00e1\u010d is an Associate Professor and Deputy Department Chair of Machine Learning Department at MBZUAI, where he is a core faculty at the Optimization &amp; Machine Learning Lab. His current research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms for machine learning, applications of ML, optimization, HPC. He serves as an Area Chair of ML conferences such as AISTATS, ICML, and NeurIPS.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=qKQD-2cAAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Google Scholar h-index &#8211; 40 (01\/2026)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/meet-martin-takac-kinit-external-mentor\/\">Meet Martin Tak\u00e1\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div id=\"\" class=\"element core-button\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/mtakac.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Profile<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"tab-3\" class=\"tab\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p>Peter Tino&nbsp;is a Professor at the School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK. He is interested in the interplay between mathematical modelling and machine learning (dynamical systems, probabilistic modelling, statistical pattern recognition, natural computation). Peter is interested in both foundational aspects and applications in interdisciplinary contexts (e.g. astrophysics, biomedical sciences, cognitive neuroscience). <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p>He is a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute and has served on editorial boards of leading journals such as IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TCYB, Neural Networks and Scientific Reports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=jntY1osAAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Google Scholar h-index &#8211; 49 (01\/2026)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/meet-peter-tino-kinit-external-mentor\/\">Meet Peter Tino<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div id=\"\" class=\"element core-button\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.bham.ac.uk\/~pxt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Profile<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"tab-4\" class=\"tab\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p>Dr. Symeon Papadopoulos is a Principal Researcher at the Information Technologies Institute (ITI), Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Thessaloniki, Greece. He holds a Professional Doctorate in Engineering from the Technical University of Eindhoven, a Master\u2019s in Business Administration from the Blekinge Institute of Technology and a PhD in Computer Science from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His research interests lie at the intersection of multimedia understanding, social network analysis, information retrieval, big data management and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div id=\"\" class=\"element core-button\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iti.gr\/iti\/en\/people\/papadopoulos-symeon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Profile<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section> \n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element acf-mentors margin-bottom-0\">\n<section class=\"block-mentors  margin-bottom-0\" >\n\t<div class=\"wrapper-out\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wrapper-in\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"in cf\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"element-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"tabs-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"tabs\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#tab-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Simon_Ostermann_edited-255x341.png\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 255px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 255\/341;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"title\">Simon Ostermann<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"position\">Senior Researcher &#038; Lead, DFKI<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"more\">Viac info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#tab-2\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Anders-Soegaard_edited.png\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 199px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 199\/248;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"title\">Anders S\u00f8gaard<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"position\">Professor, University of Copenhagen<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"more\">Viac info<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"tab-1\" class=\"tab\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p>Simon Ostermann is a computational linguist and senior researcher at the Multilinguality and Language Technology (MLT) lab at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DKFI). His research interests are mainly on transparent and robust language models and language technology. In his work, he mostly uses large language models trained with deep learning methods.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div id=\"\" class=\"element core-button\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/simonost.github.io\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Profile<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"tab-2\" class=\"tab\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p>Professor in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning at the University of Copenhagen. Jointly affiliated with the Dpt. of Computer Science, the Dpt. of Philosophy, the Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence, and the Center for Social Data Science. Previously at The University of Potsdam, Amazon Core Machine Learning, and Google Research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=en&amp;user=x3I4CrYAAAAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Google Scholar h-index &#8211; 54 (01\/2026)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div id=\"\" class=\"element core-button\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/anderssoegaard.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Profile<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-paragraph\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section> \n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"element core-embed wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"KInIT mentors\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aeRVu1N7nR8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"register-now\" class=\"element acf-cta squares\">\n<section id=\"register-now\" class=\"cta  squares lazyload\"  style=\"background-image:inherit;\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cta-background-1-1024x683.jpg)\">\n        <div class=\"wrapper-out\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wrapper-in\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"in cf\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"element-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner without-picture\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Your future<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">starts at KInIT<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Transform your curiosity into excellence. If you are interested in doing a PhD degree at KInIT, let us know as soon as possible. Fill in the PhD @ KInIT expression of interest form no later than March 31st.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button link\" href=\"mailto:phd.info@kinit.sk\">I have a question<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section> \n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"news-blogs\" class=\"element acf-loop squares columns-3\"><section id=\"news-blogs\" class=\"loop old  squares columns-3\" style=\"background-color: #ebf7f9;\" >\n\t<div class=\"wrapper-out\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wrapper-in\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"in cf\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"element-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"headline\"><h2>Find our more about our external mentors and their research<\/h2><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"loop-wrap loop-Any loop-style1 loop-load_more loop-10 cf\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<article id=\"loop-item-8099\" class=\"loop-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner cf\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/meet-peter-brusilovsky-kinit-external-mentor\/\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"picture\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"200\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/brusilovsky-web-320x200.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/brusilovsky-web-320x200.png 320w, https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/brusilovsky-web-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/brusilovsky-web.png 640w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 320px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 320\/200;\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content cf\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>Meet Peter Brusilovsky, KInIT external mentor<\/h3>\n                        \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"meta cf\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"date\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tapr 7. 2021\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"excerpt\">\u201cYou can\u2019t be a true researcher unless you drive by your curiosity. I\u2019m not sure if curiosity saves the world, but it will definitely drive science faster and reliably.\u201d&nbsp; Peter&#8230;<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<article id=\"loop-item-14542\" class=\"loop-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner cf\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/meet-peter-dolog-kinit-external-mentor\/\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"picture\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"200\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/dolog_3-320x200.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/dolog_3.png 320w, https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/dolog_3-300x188.png 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 320px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 320\/200;\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content cf\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>Meet Peter Dolog, KInIT external mentor<\/h3>\n                        \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"meta cf\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"date\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfeb 21. 2022\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"excerpt\">\u201cI\u00a0am excited to help in growing young talents who can become researchers who are internationally recognized or even internationally leading and who are able to work with many different researchers&#8230;<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<article id=\"loop-item-8101\" class=\"loop-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner cf\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/meet-jana-kosecka-kinit-external-mentor\/\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"picture\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"200\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/kosecka-web1-320x200.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/kosecka-web1-320x200.png 320w, https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/kosecka-web1-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/kosecka-web1.png 640w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 320px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 320\/200;\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content cf\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>Meet Jana Kosecka, KInIT external mentor<\/h3>\n                        \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"meta cf\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"date\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmar 30. 2021\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"excerpt\">\u201cI decided to become KInIT mentor to help create opportunities for students who are interested in artificial intelligence and to be a part of the open worldwide research community.\u201d&nbsp; Jana&#8230;<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<article id=\"loop-item-8103\" class=\"loop-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner cf\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/meet-branislav-kveton-kinit-external-mentor\/\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"picture\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"200\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/kveton-web-320x200.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/kveton-web-320x200.png 320w, https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/kveton-web-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/kveton-web.png 640w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 320px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 320\/200;\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content cf\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>Meet Branislav Kveton, KInIT external mentor<\/h3>\n                        \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"meta cf\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"date\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmar 22. 2021\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"excerpt\">\u201cI\u2019ve been lucky enough to know many good scientists from our region and I hope by working together we can grow more,\u201d says Branislav Kveton, a machine learning scientist at&#8230;<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<article id=\"loop-item-8098\" class=\"loop-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner cf\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/meet-peter-richtarik-kinit-external-mentor\/\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"picture\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"200\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/richtarik-web-1-320x200.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/richtarik-web-1-320x200.png 320w, https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/richtarik-web-1-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/richtarik-web-1.png 640w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 320px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 320\/200;\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content cf\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>Meet Peter Richtarik, KInIT external mentor<\/h3>\n                        \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"meta cf\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"date\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tapr 16. 2021\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"excerpt\">&#8222;I have been in a situation in which you wish to pursue your passion and you cannot find the right place in Slovakia and you&#8217;re facing a dilemma do I&#8230;<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<article id=\"loop-item-8100\" class=\"loop-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner cf\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/meet-martin-takac-kinit-external-mentor\/\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"picture\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"200\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/takac-web1-320x200.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/takac-web1-320x200.png 320w, https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/takac-web1-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/takac-web1.png 640w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 320px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 320\/200;\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content cf\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>Meet Martin Takac, KInIT external mentor<\/h3>\n                        \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"meta cf\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"date\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmar 30. 2021\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"excerpt\">\u201cCuriosity is my driving engine, which always pushes me forward and only because of curiosity I could make some progress in knowledge and science.\u201d&nbsp; Curiosity and research go hand in&#8230;<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<article id=\"loop-item-8102\" class=\"loop-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner cf\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/meet-peter-tino-kinit-external-mentor\/\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"picture\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"200\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/tino-web-320x200.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/tino-web-320x200.png 320w, https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/tino-web-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/kinit.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/tino-web.png 640w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 320px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 320\/200;\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content cf\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>Meet Peter Tino, KInIT external mentor<\/h3>\n                        \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"meta cf\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"date\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmar 23. 2021\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"excerpt\">\u201cI really care about Slovakia and I really care about its future. I think by helping to develop young talents in Slovakia I can bring my little niche into helping&#8230;<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22811,"parent":8308,"menu_order":23,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13840","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PhD Program - KInIT<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Join our PhD program and become an expert in artificial intelligence. 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