About LUIZA

Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence of the University of Žilina

The Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence of the University of Žilina (Laboratórium umelej inteligencie Žilinskej univerzity; LUIZA) has been founded on 11th April 2019 as a sub-unit of the Institute of Competitiveness and Innovations of the University of Žilina.

Our Mission

  • Original research in the area of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).
  • Helping to join and network the various groups that work in AI and ML at the University of Žilina.
  • Supporting education in the area.
  • Popularization.

Areas of Interests

  • deep learning;
  • reinforcement learning (including motivated RL);
  • robotics – including shared-autonomy settings, intelligent human-robot interfaces, language grounding, etc.;
  • data analysis;


SciTea: Computer Vision; 15. 11. 2024

On 15th Nov. 2024 LUIZA is organizing a SciTea workshop on the topic of Computer Vision. This is another instance of our workshop where students of UNIZA will have the opportunity to meet excellent young machine learning researchers from other institutions – in this case from KInIT, TUKE and UK. Format The event combines invited talks with an open discussion over a cup of tea, where the participants will be able to talk about everything and anything with the speakers, including e.g. their respective research topics, the broader trends in AI, machine learning and LLMs, or even some useful career ...
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SciTea: Large Language Models; 22. 11. 2024

On 22nd Nov. 2024 LUIZA is organizing a SciTea workshop on the topic of Large Language Models (LLMs). This is another instance of our workshop where students of UNIZA will have the opportunity to meet excellent young machine learning researchers from other institutions – in this case from KInIT and from TUKE. Format The event combines invited talks with an open discussion over a cup of tea, where the participants will be able to talk about everything and anything with the speakers, including e.g. their respective research topics, the broader trends in AI, machine learning and LLMs, or even some ...
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LUIZA in NLP Summer Schools

LUIZA's SCORE4AI project is all about collaboration in educating young artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) talents across Slovakia. Having learnt that KInIT was organizing two connected summer school events (KInIT NLP Summer School; DisAI Summer School) on natural language processing (NLP) this year, we were bound to join the effort – after all, NLP's large language models (LLMs) are currently driving progress in AI and machine learning! We delivered an "Intro to Deep Learning" talk at the NLP summer school event; and also participated in the DisAI Summer School, where talks were given by international experts in multi-lingual, ...
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SciTea Workshop; 24. 11. 2023

On 24th Nov. 2023 we are organizing a SciTea workshop "Deep Learning in Computer Vision" – an event, where students from UNIZA will have the opportunity to meet excellent young ML researchers from UNIBA and TUKE. The event combines invited talks with an open discussion over a cup of tea, where the participants will be able to talk about everything and anything with the speakers, including e.g. their respective research topics, the broader trends in AI and machine learning, or even some useful career tips – all in a pleasant social setting. We believe that providing students with access to ...
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Educational Workshops @LUIZA

At LUIZA we are committed to supporting education in the area of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Given that the half-life of knowledge in machine learning is estimated by some leading experts to be around 3 months, we believe that it is absolutely crucial to concentrate on building meta-skills (such as paper reading and implementation, discussion, team work, etc.) of our students in addition to teaching them hard skills – otherwise what we have taught them is almost guaranteed to be out-of-date by the time they are out of school. In that effort, LUIZA, supported by project KEGA 008ŽU-4/2021, has ...
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Contact

Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence of the University of Žilina
Institute of Competitiveness and Innovations
Univerzitná 1, 010 26 Žilina, Slovak Republic

michal.gregor@uniza.sk
facebook.com/luiza.uniza