Students from the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science participated in the AI Tech project and visited ESA - the European Space Agency in Madrid, at the beginning of July.
During a five-day trip to the space agency, guests from the AMU explored the secrets of space missions such as Galileo (Global Navigation Satellite System), SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity), GNSS Digital Platform and ESA Datalabs. These projects play a key role in satellite navigation and monitoring soil moisture and ocean salinity.
The students were introduced to the Cesar education programme, which offers extraordinary opportunities for development and learning in the field of space exploration. The possibilities of establishing cooperation with the ESA GNSS Science Support Centre, represented by Vicente Navarro, the team leader responsible for processing data from space missions, were also discussed. The joint activities would involve the use of data in machine learning classes taught in the Artificial Intelligence specialisation of the Faculty of Computer Science. From the AMU side, the meeting was attended by Prof Krzysztof Dyczkowski, Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, and Prof Jacek Marciniak.
Students from the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science can also boast successes in the AI Tech research and development project competition. They took place in June, during the summer school organised in Warsaw. In all three categories (artificial intelligence, machine learning, cyber security), our students won 5 out of 12 prizes and distinctions awarded, including two first places for the projects Dosintos (Antonio Rodriguez, Kacper Koziełło) and Novel machine translation methods (Kamil Guttmann, Mikołaj Pokrywka). Other awards and distinctions went to the following projects: DarcAI (Adam Osiowy, Karol Idaszak, Michał Kozłowski, Andrzej Preibisz), Application txtLocker (Aleksandra Zbąska) and AMUseBot (Iwona Christop, Adrian Charkiewicz, Kacper Dudzic, Mikołaj Krzymiński, Julian Zabłoński, Dominik Zaleśny).
The R&D assignments are an essential component of the didactic process within the master's degree programme in computer science, emphasises Prof. Jacek Marciniak. As he explains, the projects are carried out in teams during the final year of studies, lasting two semesters and linked to the topics of the master's thesis. As part of the AI Tech project, the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science has developed principles for conducting research projects allowing research to be combined with industrial applications.
"Such a fusion is crucial in computer science, both from the perspective of scientific development and the practical needs of industry. Many contemporary problems in computer science cannot be solved by engineering methods alone, i.e. techniques that refer to known methods and tools. The need arises, for example, in the area of artificial intelligence and cyber security, two areas of computer science supported by the AI Tech project. The success of students within the AI Tech project's concluding summer school shows that the developed formula for conducting research and development projects is effective and prepares students very well for work in science and industry", says Prof. Jacek Marciniak.
The Academy for Innovative Applications of Digital Technologies (AI Tech) is a consortium of five leading Polish universities providing education in computer science: Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Gdansk University of Technology, Poznan University of Technology, Wroclaw University of Technology and Warsaw University. The leader of the AI Tech Project is the Prime Minister's Office.
The AI Tech Project is financed by the Digital Poland Operational Programme 2014-2020 (Measure 3.2: Innovative solutions for digital activation, Priority axis III: Digital competencies of society). The value of the project for the entire consortium is PLN 51,521,859.00, including a project grant from the European Union of PLN 43,602,949.27.
Source & photos: AMU polish website
