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 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our students in addition to teaching them hard skills – otherwise what we have taught them is almost guaranteed to be out-of-date by the time they are out of school.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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MLSS@UNIZA 2022

This year, LUIZA is again co-organizing MLSS@UNIZA! This time around, we are running it in a new format – with a 2-day face-to-face part (which took place 5th – 6th Sept.) and an extended blended part that runs until the Nov. 30th. This new format is supported by several educational projects that our members are involved in: Development project 002ZU-2-1-2021 “Hybrid Education in the Area of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Cybernetics at UNIZA”; KEGA 008ŽU-4/2021 “Integrated Teaching for Artificial Intelligence Methods at the University of Žilina”; Erasmus+ project Teach4Edu; This allowed us to create a full 2-university-course-worth of educational ...
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MLSS@UNIZA 2021

We are glad to share that in spite of the ongoing pandemic and various travel restrictions, we were able to run the Machine Learning School @UNIZA again this year – although we did it online. From 13th Sept. until 17th Sept. the participants were once again able to learn about the fundaments of modern machine learning (ML) methods and to build up their practical ML skills in interactive sessions. Thank you, L'Aquilla and Belgrade! We are especially thankful that this year's MLSS was organized jointly with the University of L'Aquilla and the University of Belgrade (our partners under the Erasmus+ ...
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LUIZA for Education

At LUIZA, one of the things we care about deeply is supporting education in the area of artificial intelligence and machine learning. We are glad to share that we are now participating in 3 educational projects at UNIZA: Integrated Teaching for Artificial Intelligence Methods at the University of Žilina (KEGA 008ŽU-4/2021);Hybrid Education in the Area of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Cybernetics at UNIZA (002ZU-2-1-2021);Teach4Edu (an Erasmus+ project; Faculty of Management Science and Informatics is the official partner from UNIZA); We are also excited to announce that we are again organizing the Machine Learning Summer School @UNIZA this year! ...
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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