Research programme 5: Knowledge and data processing unit

The planned research will be based on current trends in data analysis and the development of methods using artificial intelligence, which can find application in a wide range of fields, including social science research and industrial applications. In industrial areas, applications will focus on activities related to the Industry 4.0 phenomenon, such as optimisation of production processes or automatic detection of manufacturing defects. In the social science research area, the research team will focus on text and social data analysis, with an emphasis on criminology, history and population health.

Head of the research team: doc. RNDr. Martin Štěpnička, Ph.D.
Vice-Rector for Science and Arts at the University of Ostrava, 20 years of research experience in fuzzy modelling, expert systems and time series prediction. President of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technologies (EUSFLAT) in 2017-2019 and 2019-2021, IEEE Senior, FUZZ-IEEE Best Paper Award 2016 (Vancouver, Canada).