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Spanish researcher Alicia Lozano-Diez still has several days left of her research stay at the Faculty of Information Technology. At the end of January, after twenty months of hard work, she will finish her robust speaker recognition research on which she has been working within the scope of the prestigious European grant Marie Curie H2020 intended for young and talented researchers.

It was a close call, but team of researchers from the KNOT@FIT group - Martin Fajčík, Martin Dočekal, Karel Ondřej and Pavel Smrž - managed to come in third at the EfficientQA competition held as part of the NeurIPS 2020 conference. Their system called BUT R2-D2 succeeded alongside such big names as Facebook or Microsoft and triumphed in the "machine competition" where it also competed against humans in a trivia quiz.