Artificial intelligence is one of the fastest-growing fields today, while also requiring close collaboration across disciplines and institutions. With the aim of connecting research teams from the Czech Academy of Sciences and Czech universities, the Matchm-AI-king seminar took place on Tuesday, 16 June, at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics of the Czech Technical University (CIIRC CTU).
The event was initiated by Radomír Pánek, President of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and Vladimír Mařík, Scientific Director of CIIRC CTU. Its objective was to create opportunities for establishing concrete research collaborations among teams working in artificial intelligence, showcase current research topics, and identify opportunities for joint projects.
“We need to strengthen connections between people and teams addressing similar research challenges. Czech science has tremendous potential in artificial intelligence, and collaboration is key to unlocking that potential,” said Radomír Pánek, President of the Czech Academy of Sciences, during his opening remarks.
Professor Vladimír Mařík echoed the need for closer cooperation. In his address, he emphasized that Europe is unlikely to compete with the United States or China in developing large language models. Instead, Europe’s competitive advantage lies in the intelligent deployment of AI in industry, manufacturing, research, and other application domains, where it can generate tangible economic and societal benefits.
The seminar’s name referred to the concept of a matchmaking platform. The organizers deliberately chose this metaphor because the goal was not to present institutions but to connect individual research teams and identify complementary expertise. The event emphasized interdisciplinarity, knowledge sharing, and the creation of new research partnerships.
Across three thematic sessions, researchers from the Czech Academy of Sciences, CIIRC CTU, Charles University, VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, the University of West Bohemia, Masaryk University, and other institutions presented their work. The presentations covered a broad range of topics, including computer vision, process optimization, agent-based systems built on large language models, robotics, autonomous systems, quantum computing, and AI applications in medicine, materials science, social sciences, and agriculture.
CIIRC CTU was represented, among others, by Přemysl Šůcha, who introduced research on process optimization and the emerging National Centre for Artificial Intelligence, and Patrik Beliansky, who presented advanced methods for 3D scene representation.
The Matchm-AI-king seminar demonstrated the remarkable breadth of expertise within the Czech AI research community. It also confirmed that closer collaboration among research institutions is one of the key prerequisites for launching more ambitious projects and strengthening the international competitiveness of Czech AI research.
Link to the presentations
Programme
9:00-9:10 Opening Session
Welcome by the moderators
- Václav Hlaváč
- Martin Víta
Opening remarks
- Prof. Radomír Pánek, President of the Czech Academy of Sciences
- Prof. Vladimír Mařík, Scientific Director of CIIRC CTU
9:15-10:15 Session I
- Filip Šroubek (Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)
AI at UTIA: Methods and Applications for Data, Vision, and Decision Support - Přemysl Šůcha (CIIRC CTU, Prague)
Optimization of Processes; National Centre for Artificial Intelligence - Václav Snášel (Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VSB – Technical University of Ostrava; CLARA)
Topological and Geometrical AI - Marek Hrúz (Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Plzeň)
Computer Vision AI Systems - Martin Friák (Institute of Physics of Materials, Czech Academy of Sciences; Masaryk University, Brno)
Magnetism by AI and Quantum Computing
10:25-11:25 Session II
- Roman Neruda (Institute of Computer Science, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)
LLM Agents for Social Simulation: From Synthetic Voters to Information Diffusion - Rudolf Rosa (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague)
AI in Context - Jiří Fujera (Masaryk University; Institute of Plasma Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences)
Plasma Physics and Advanced Solutions for Sustainable Agriculture - Filip Jozefov (Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Tomáš Pluskal Group)
Interpreting 200 Million Metabolite Mass Spectra Using the DreaMS Neural Network - Martin Bulín (Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Plzeň)
Adaptive AI Core for Robotic Platforms
11:35-12:23 Session III
- Jiří Wiedermann (Institute of Computer Science, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)
A Radically Faster and Safer Architecture for Autonomous Systems and a Shift in the Ethics of AI - Sabina Vassileva (Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Tereza Stöckelová Research Team)
Integrating Hormonal Variability into Automated Diabetes Management - Patrik Beliansky (CIIRC CTU, Torsten Sattler Research Group)
3D Scene Representations - Luboš Šmídl (Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Plzeň)
Healthcare Applications and Speech Technologies
Contact
Martin Víta
Coordinator of the programme AI: Artificial Intelligence for Science and Society
Czech Academy of Sciences
E-mail: vita@cs.cas.cz
