2026-08-26
Welcome to the New Academic Year & Introduction Days at VU MIF
A new academic year is starting at Vilnius University's Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics (VU MIF)! We're inviting new members of the VU MIF community to take part in the Introduction Days. These welcome activities are here to help you settle into university life and feel right at home in...
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2026-08-24
"Declarative AI 2026": researchers from 22 countries meet in Vilnius t…
From 24–30 August 2026, the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics at Vilnius University (VU MIF) is hosting the international conference and summer school "Declarative AI 2026: Rules, Reasoning, Decisions, and Explanations". The academic event brings together specialists and researchers in artificial intelligence (AI), knowledge representation, logical reasoning and neurosymbolic AI...
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2026-08-24
Thermo Fisher Scientific Nominal Scholarship Competition 2026-2027
“Thermo Fisher Scientific Baltics” UAB in cooperation with Vilnius University invites prospective first year master students from VU Life Sciences Center, Faculty of Chemistry and Geosciences, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics to prepare Master final thesis and Bachelor final thesis at the Company. For Master’s degree students, the scholarship...
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2026-08-17
VU MIF PhD Student Wins International AI Competition
Artūras Nakvosas, a doctoral student at Vilnius University's Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics (VU MIF), outperformed rivals from around the world in a prestigious international artificial intelligence (AI) competition organised by the International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2026), taking place in Rome. "The win was a very pleasant surprise –...
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2026-08-10
How VU's Supercomputer Is Helping to Advance Speech Research
Improving speech-hearing, speech-understanding and speech-producing technologies requires supercomputers with real computing muscle – machines that can do what an ordinary computer would either do slowly or not manage at all. "The importance of improving speech signal quality is growing," says Justina Ramonaitė, a PhD student in the Image and Signal Analysis...
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2026-08-10
VU MIF PhD Student Receives Best Presentation Award at FM 2026
PhD student Daniel Daukševič from the Institute of Computer Science, Vilnius University Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics (VU MIF), received the Best Presentation Award at the Doctoral Symposium held in conjunction with the 27th International Symposium on Formal Methods (FM 2026). From left to right: Prof. Cyrille Artho (KTH Royal Institute...
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2026-07-24
First Arqus MICAC Graduation
On 10 July 2026, the first cohort of the International Master's Programme in Cybersecurity and Cyberintelligence graduated at the University of Minho's School of Engineering in Guimarães, Portugal. The joint Arqus Alliance Master's Programme in International Cybersecurity and Cyberintelligence (MICAC) is delivered by four European universities: Vilnius University (Lithuania), the University...
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2026-07-13
Statistics in the Age of Uncertainty and AI
When artificial intelligence (AI) can produce confident-sounding answers in an instant, a conversation with a statistician can feel almost sobering. In science, the goal is not certainty or omniscience – it is doubt. EYSM opening session, Vilnius University Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics "If you're a researcher, you have to question everything...
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2026-07-02
Graduation at the VU Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics
On 26 June, graduates of the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics at Vilnius University (VU MIF) were awarded their Bachelor's and Master's degrees during a formal graduation ceremony held at St John's Church. The event brought together graduates, their families and friends, members of the VU MIF community, and the...
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2026-06-22
Vaida Masiulionytė-Dagienė – New Doctor of Technological Sciences at VU MIF
We congratulate the newly awarded Doctor of Technological Sciences in Informatics Engineering, Vaida Masiulionytė-Dagienė, who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, Modelling of Computational Thinking Automated Assessment, at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of Vilnius University (VU MIF). Pictured (left to right): doctoral defence committee member Prof. Dr Tomas Blažauskas, doctoral...
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2026-06-05
Breakthrough for the Lithuanian Language in AI: 10 000-Hour Speech Corpus Develo…
The development of the Large Lithuanian Language Speech Corpus LIEPA-3 has been completed in Lithuania. Researchers from Vilnius University, Vytautas Magnus University, and the Institute of the Lithuanian Language have collected and annotated 10,000 hours of Lithuanian speech recordings, equivalent to more than one year of continuous speech. It is...
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2026-06-05
Dr. M. Motiejauskas's Dissertation – A Landmark Event
Congratulations to Modestas Motiejauskas, the newly conferred Doctor of Natural Sciences in the field of Informatics, who successfully defended his dissertation on 25 May entitled "Convolutional Neural Network Architectures and Training Improvements: Visual Emotion Recognition Case". (from right to left) Dr Modestas Motiejauskas and Prof. habil. Dr Gintautas Dzemyda, photo VU...
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