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Jamil Ghazal, a first-year PhD student at the Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory of HUN-REN SZTAKI, has won the IEEE GRSS 2026 Data Fusion Contest, an international scientific competition. The award-winning work was carried out in collaboration with ELTE; the team members were Ghazal Jamil, András Jung, and Vera Könyves. András Jung and Vera Könyves are Jamil’s PhD supervisors. The IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (IEEE GRSS) is one of the leading international professional communities in Earth observation, remote sensing, and radar satellite image processing.

The latest (#14) meetup of the Artificial Intelligence National Laboratory (MILAB), coordinated by HUN-REN SZTAKI, focused on the rapidly emerging “AI Scientist” systems and Agentic AI. Dániel Horváth (HUN-REN / HUN-REN SZTAKI) presented the MIRAI

Levente Kocsis, Senior Research Fellow at HUN-REN SZTAKI, was a guest on Tilos Radio’s program Természetes intelligencia: micsoda világ!, where he discussed his 2006 publication that propelled the development of AI algorithms used in Go games.

Established in 2020 under the leadership of HUN-REN SZTAKI, the Artificial Intelligence National Laboratory (MILAB) operates through the collaboration of five universities, three additional research institutes, and two governmental bodies. Its goal is to strengthen Hungary's international position in artificial intelligence research and application. At the press conference held on June 2, 2025, MILAB’s professional partners briefly presented their achievements in the field of AI.

The conference was held on November 8, 2024, at the HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences (HUN-REN RTD), and was presented by Csaba Kerepesi and Eszter Szatmári, researchers of HUN-REN SZTAKI.

Researchers from HUN-REN SZTAKI's BioAgeAI research group on ageing research were joined by businessman Ernő Duda at the morning session of the all-day event "Can we live forever?" on 14 November 2024.

The HUN-REN SZTAKI coordinated Artificial Intelligence National Laboratory (MILAB) also participated in one of the biggest AI-themed business conferences of the autumn, the AI Summit.

Between July 30 and August 1, 2024, the Hungarian Machine Learning Days was organized for the second time at the European Youth Centre in Budapest, by the Artificial Intelligence National Laboratory (MILAB), coordinated by HUN-REN SZTAKI.

Work on Hungary’s Artificial Intelligence Strategy is finished, announced László Palkovics, minister of innovation and technology on the 8th of September 2020.

With the Institute for Computer Science and Control (SZTAKI), Hungary, as artificial intelligence developer partner, the Hexa-X flagship project received 12MEUR funding from the European Commission for research in beyond 5G/6G radio technology connecting human, physical, and digital worlds.

Our lives are becoming increasingly digital. Year by year, we conduct more and more our activities online. Nowadays, we can buy and sell goods online. We consume advertisements and movies online. We work, make friends and maintain our relationships with our loved ones online. Really soon, our money will also become digital. However, digitizing money comes with a lot of difficulties.

The researchers of SZTAKI - Ferenc Béres and András Benczúr, and ELTE doctoral student István Seres - examined Lightning Network, the most popular payment channel network designed to solve Bitcoin problems - slowness and scalability. Lightning Network is not anonymous enough and may not work at all.