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.
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.
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).
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".
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.
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.
Associated Professor Dr. Gintautas Grigas and the unlikely story of how a tiny country under soviet occupation became a computing pioneer.
We invite graduates to a graduation ceremony on 26 June at 10:00 am at St. St. John's Church! The ceremony will include the awarding of diplomas to graduates of the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, congratulatory speeches and a musical performance. The ceremony welcomes not only graduates, lecturers, and honourable guests, but also graduates' family members and friends, who can arrive from 9:30 a.m. The ceremony is expected to end at 1:30 p.m.
