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.
Faculty news
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.
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 Faculty's social partners.
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).
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".
Breakthrough for the Lithuanian Language in AI: 10 000-Hour Speech Corpus Developed
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 the largest Lithuanian speech dataset ever created for artificial intelligence technologies.
Science Fair at the Institute of Computer Science, Vilnius University Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics
On 21 May, the science fair 'Exchange of Ideas in Computer Science ' at the Vilnius University Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics Institute of Computer Science brought together students, researchers and technology professionals for discussions on cyber security, artificial intelligence, large language models (LLMs) and machine psychology.
From a DIY Radio to a Nation of Programmers
Associated Professor Dr. Gintautas Grigas and the unlikely story of how a tiny country under soviet occupation became a computing pioneer.