Notes April 22, 2026
Important: changes in out time plan due to classes cancelled on May 8
Week of April 22:
Wednesday lecture: Text data, preattentive attributes, gestalt, illusions
Friday tutorial: progress meeting 3
homework and quiz back on normal schedule
Week of April 29:
Wednesday lecture: Project phases, presentation of results, cognitive bias, interactive visualization
Friday: holiday, no tutorial
Week of May 6:
Wednesday lecture: Infographics, interactive visualization, other visualization systems, specialized charts
Friday: classes cancelled, no tutorial
Week of May 13:
Wednesday: no lecture
Friday tutorial: project meeting 4
Week of May 20:
Project presentations on both Wednesday and Friday lectures/tutorials
Friday May 22, 22:00 project submission deadline
Final test: probably in the first week of June, more next week
Oral exams: in June
Student Research Conference
Students and alumni of Data Science program were (again) successful at the Student Research Conference:
- Marek Šugár: Segment focused portfolio optimization based on machine learning predictions, laureate in section Applied Mathematics
- Lukáš Gáborik, Jozef Rajník: Constructing flows from flow-pairs, 1st-3rd in section Graph Theory and Algebra
- Valter Cingel: Uniformné systémy najkratších ciest v grafoch s veľkou grupou automorfizmov, laureate in section Graph Theory and Algebra
- Lucia Ganajová, Marek Šuppa: An English Joke, a Spanish Punchline, and a Slovak Dataset Walk Into a Paper: An Experiment in Pushing the Boundaries of Modern Large Laughing Models, 2nd place in Section Computer Science
- Paulína Jaremčuková: Complexity of trained neural networks’ decision boundaries, and its relationship with the adversarial robustness, 3nd place in Section Computer Science
- Tuan Dávid Nguyen Van: Evaluation Framework for Resource-Constrained Georeferencing Systems on Small Satellites, 1st place in section Computer Vission and Graphics
- Jana Poľašková, Iveta Bečková, Štefan Pócoš: When Neural Networks Fails: An Analysis of Adversarial Examples in Image Classification, 2nd place in section Computer Vission and Graphics
- Timotej Šimkovič: Štatistická analýza svetelných kriviek vesmírneho odpadu, laureate in section Computer Vission and Graphics
Congratulations to all and we hope they will be an inspiration for you to participate in the Student Research Conference in the future.