Dr. Šivic is among the most internationally recognised scientists in the field of computer vision and machine learning. After graduating from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of CTU with honours, he obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, where he studied from 2002 to 2006. From 2007 to 2008, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at MIT in Boston, USA, and subsequently held various positions in France, at École Normale Supérieure and at the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA).
Since returning from France to the Czech Republic in 2017, while continuing his work in Paris, he has been serving as the head of the Intelligent Machine Perception group at CIIRC CTU. He is the author of dozens of highly cited scientific publications and has long been engaged in teaching and the supervision of doctoral students.
In his professorial lecture, Dr. Šivic will focus on current developments in computer vision, learning from large-scale data sources, and understanding visual information in real-world environments. The lecture will be delivered before the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of CTU.
Date: Wednesday, 11 February 2026
Time: 1:00–2:00 p.m.
Venue: FEL CTU, Prague–Dejvice, T2:D3-209
Language of the lecture: English
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