On 11th September 2020, CENDAI team members and student researchers presented at the Left of Boom VI, the Sixth Annual Conference on Proactive Threat Mitigation, organized and hosted by the Intelligence Research Institute (IRI).

On 11th September 2020, CENDAI team members and student researchers presented at the Left of Boom VI, the Sixth Annual Conference on Proactive Threat Mitigation, organized and hosted by the Intelligence Research Institute (IRI). A full three-day program running between 9^th and 11^th September 2020 offered wide range of topics spanning from trade and security to health, environment and technology. The conference, led by Dr. Akshay Pottathil, IRI President, hosted 40 presentations from distinguished speakers including keynote speakers John Brown (Executive Assistant Director, National Security Branch, FBI), Soraya Correa (Chief Procurement Officer, US Department of Homeland Security) and Cristiano Amon (President, Qualcomm Incorporated).

Dr. Miloš Ulman introduced CENDAI activities, recent research projects and the first post covid-19 interdisciplinary master’s program Global Security Management that will be provided jointly by the Intelligence Research Institute and the Faculty of Economics and Management CZU Prague.

Ms. Margarita Gicheva, an Informatics Master’s program student at the Faculty of Economics and Management CZU Prague, presented her thesis research on Application of AI in Crisis Management supervised by Dr. Ulman and advised by Dr. Pottathil. Ms. Tuhina Srivastava, a recent graduate of the Business Administration Master’s program FEM CZU Prague, presented a demo of SENS (Sentiment Evaluation Neural System), an AI based app for recognition of peoples’ emotions from micro-facial expressions in real-time. Both presentations drew participants attention and the researchers answered a number of questions from the host and other participants. 

The research presented by the CENDAI researchers was supported by a grant from the Department of Information Technologies and funding from the International Relations Office FEM CZU Prague.