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From 1st to 4th April 2025, the prestigious international conference Digital Forensics Research Workshop (DFRWS) will be held at the Faculty of Information Technology Brno University of Technology - the event with the longest tradition in the field of global research on digital data forensics and Incident Response. This year, for the first time, it is being held in the Czech Republic and the patronage of the current edition of DFRWS EU 2025 has been taken over by the Rector of the Brno University of Technology Ladislav Janíček, Dean of FIT BUT Petr Hanáček, the Police of the Czech Republic, the Mayor of Brno Markéta Vaňková and the Ministry of Justice. The DFRWS conference annually brings together top experts in the field from academia, state administration, security forces and industry.

The event will begin on Monday, March 31 with the associated Women in Forensics Computing workshop, which brings together women in the field of forensics and participation is free for registrants. The DFRWS EU 2025 conference itself will take place from Tuesday 1 April to Friday 4 April 2025. Speakers include cryptography expert Dr Iwen Coisel from EUROPOL and Colonel Jiří Štochl from the Criminalistics Institute of the Police of the Czech Republic. The rich programme also includes the first ever PhD symposium. Researchers and PhD students of our faculty are involved in the organization of the conference. The main organizers are Ondřej Ryšavý and Radek Hranický.

More information and a detailed programme can be found on the conference website. Until 24 February, it is also possible to redeem the code EarlyBird25, which provides a discount of 100 EUR on registration. Want to present your own research at the conference? It is still possible to participate in the form of a poster, or a short presentation or demo - more here.

First place in the 8 z VUT competition, inclusion of the bachelor thesis in the programme of a prestigious international informatics conference. These are just some of the successes celebrated by Sára Jobranová, a student of the Master's programme Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence at the Faculty of Information Technology BUT. Her research focused on quantum circuit simulation and thanks to her innovative tool, she managed to outperform competing simulators in speed. At the same time, her surroundings discouraged her from studying computer science.

A talented young computer scientist Sára Jobranová was discouraged from studying computer science a few years ago. "It was a bit of a coincidence that I ended up at FIT BUT. I was studying general high school, I was good at maths, so I knew I wanted to study something more technical. But I applied for computer science just for the exam. There were quite a lot of people around me who discouraged me," recalls Sára Jobranová, adding: "So I entered the faculty with the idea that I would be happy to do the first semester and then we would see."

Not only did Sára Jobranová complete her first semester without any problems. She also successfully completed all the others and computer science took her by heart. "I found that even though it wasn't a very well thought out decision in the beginning, it was a good one in the end," she notes. More in the article.

FIT resThe technology developed at FIT BUT within the TENACITy (Travel Intelligence Against Crime and Terrorism) project helps security forces in the European Union to securely transfer information about passengers travelling through international airports. It aims to connect researchers, companies and security forces across Europe to create a platform that can search for suspicious passengers based on their travel patterns or reverse movement trajectories. Experts from the NES@FIT and Security@FIT research groups are collaborating on the project.