European award to our faculty for their contribution to the European data science community
The European Big Data Value Forum was held in Valencia from October 25 to 27 during Spain's presidency of the European Union. At that event, the Laboratory for Data Analysis and Application of Artificial Intelligence of the School of Electrical Engineering (ETF) in Belgrade received a silver award for its contributions to the European data community in seven areas:
infrastructure and technological development, services, projects and applications, impact on the ecosystem, business strategy and sustainability, opportunities within European Federation of Data and Ethics.
The prize is awarded by the Big Data Value Association (BDVA), with the support of the European Commission. On behalf of the School of Electrical Engineering, the award was received by laboratory coordinator, prof. Dražen Drašković. He thanked the organizers for the award, stressing that the members of the laboratory will try to be even better and more successful in the coming years.
Our laboratory joined the European project "EU hubs for data" at the end of 2021, through the program "Horizon 2020", under the name Belgrade Data Innovation Hub. In the first year, the laboratory was recognized as one of the important nodes in the European data network, so in June 2022, Belgrade was one of the four European capitals where the European Data Week was held, hosted by the School of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade.
During the first two years of operation, the laboratory distinguished itself with successful experiments in the field of artificial intelligence and data analysis in the field of medicine, optimization of industrial processes and detection of anomalies in production. Also, members of the laboratory collaborated with foreign universities and business partners, and organized a large number of lectures, professional workshops and conferences in Serbia and the region. This laboratory is considered the successor of one of the first laboratories for data processing in this part of Europe, which was formed at ETF in 1971.
