In the '100-Digit Challenge on Real-Parameter Single Objective Optimization' competition at the CEC'2019, GECCO'2019 and SEMCCO'2019 international conferences, the members of the Institute of Computer Science won the first, second and the tenth place with the algorithms jDE100 (J. Brest, MS Maučec-TK, B. Bošković), DISHchain1e + 12 (A. Zamuda) and rjDE (A. Alič et al.). For more information visit this web page.
On 29th of September 2019, Computational Intelligence Society (CIS, https://cis.ieee.org) chapter of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has been formed at IEEE Slovenia Section. This is the first chapter in the section ever formed upon initiative from University of Maribor. Chapter chair is asst. prof. dr. Aleš Zamuda. Congratulations!
Our student Kristjan Stopar won the first prize in the student competition at the 28th International Electrotechnical and Computer Science Conference ERK 2019, organized by IEEE Slovenia Section. Together with his student colleagues Pia Žnidaršič and Urban Košale, Kristjan developed a device for kinesthetic navigation of the blind and visually impaired. Kristjan will represent University of Maribor at the IEEE Region 8 student competition. Congratulations!
Publons has published a list of winners for "2019 Peer Review Awards – Top 1% in Field". As many as four UM FERI researchers have made it to this list. In the field of Computer Science, Niko Lukač and Marjan Mernik from the Institute of Computer Science, and Iztok Fister Jr. and Marko Hölbl from the Institute of Informatics were included in the list. Only six researchers from Slovenia can be found on the list. More information at this link.
The Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (UM FERI) is an internationally recognised, ambitious technical faculty, which successfully transfers top technical knowledge into industry. We are one of the largest faculties in Slovenia with about 1900 full-time students, 640 freshmen students and 289 staff. Till now over 9000 students have graduated and almost 300 doctoral theses were defended at our faculty.
FERI offers 10 undergraduate, 7 masters and 3 doctoral degree study programmes in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Informatics, Media Communications, Telecommunications and Mechatronics.
In study year 2019/2020 we plan to offer the following Study Programmes in English:
More information about study programmes: https://feri.um.si/en/study/programmes/
More information about student life in Slovenia: https://feri.um.si/en/study/being-a-student-in-maribor/
