On the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Computer and Information Science Day on 4 December 2019 we presented awards for the most successful students and employees and honoured the other achievements of the past year.
The award recipients, invited guests and students and staff present were first greeted by the Dean, Assoc. Prof. Dr Mojca Ciglarič, who noted the symbolic significance of the fact that the Faculty’s celebratory event was taking place one day after marking the centenary of the University of Ljubljana: “Computer and information science is one of the principal building blocks of the future. We are the future.”
Students who in the past year had performed best in completing their course requirements received the prize of a book entitled “How to: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems”, written by the author of the comic strips Xkcd, Randall Munroe.
In the professional study programme in Computer and Information Science, prizes were awarded to:
In the academic higher education programme Computer and Information Science, prizes were awarded to:
In the master’s degree programme Computer and Information Science, prizes were awarded to:
In the interdisciplinary academic higher education programme Computer Science and Mathematics, prizes were awarded to:
In the second-cycle interdisciplinary master’s programme in Multimedia, a prize was awarded to:
1st year: Uroš Zoretič.
The highest faculty award for students, the Faculty Prešeren Prize, was awarded to:
Student Gregor Pavlin Poličar received a University Prešeren Prize for his work entitled Adding cases to the reference insert t-SNE eliminates the differences between various data sources (mentor: Prof. Dr Blaž Zupan).
Recognition for successful teaching work in the 2018/2019 academic year, awarded to educators with the best scores from students, was received by:
The president of the FRI Student Council, Arne Simonič, presented the Student Council awards for Top Professor and Top Assistant to:
Special recognition and prizes were awarded to the following postgraduate students for their research:
Special recognition for extraordinary research achievements, re-introduced this year with the aim of rewarding FRI staff, and not just postgraduate students, went to:
A special commendation for work with the business sector was presented to Prof. Dr Marko Bajec, for successful knowledge transfer to the market and linking the faculty with companies.
The Dean’s award for work in a professional department was presented to Maja Kerkez for her committed work in the Dean’s Office and her concern for a positive atmosphere at the faculty.
Special commendations for promoting the faculty and computer science were received by Assist. Prof. Dr Luka Fürst and Assistant Dr Marko Poženel, for spreading enthusiasm for computer science at FRI Summer School workshops and in the Programming Week.
We also presented all the recipients of university prizes which the Rector awards during the University Week:
At the event a musical or sound interlude was provided by the musical artist Miha Ciglar, founder of the Institute for Research of Sound Art, who works at the place where art intersects with technology. He presented an innovative loudspeaker, which allows him to almost literally get hold of sound and shape it with his hands or to guide it out into the space.
Photographs are published in the Facebook gallery (photos by: Andrej Križ).
Sincere congratulations once again to all the recipients!