RICAIP’s vision is to establish itself as one of the critical European research infrastructures, a centre of excellence based on an international team of top scientists, well anchored in the collaborative ecosystem of academia, industry, and national authorities, with a positive impact on the society as a whole. For that reason, we established the RICAIP Young Investigator Award (RYIA) – to support and encourage young researchers. The first ever awards announcement took place on 30 November 2022 as part of the opening ceremony of RICAIP Testbed Brno. Evaluation of all nominated participants was very close. The expert committee agreed that all nominations were of high quality and completely comparable.
The goal of the RICAIP Young Investigator Award is to appreciate the best scientific contribution performed by the candidate within the Industry 4.0 domains, mainly in the areas of industrial digitalization, automation, robotics, AI-based solutions, machine learning, big data, computer vision, IoT, industrial software and other related fields. The organization of the first year of RIYA was organized by the CEITEC Brno University of Technology. The winners were chosen by an expert committee.
The first-ever winner is Ing. Varun Burde from Testbed for Industry 4.0 in CIIRC CTU who was nominated by Dr. Pavel Burget. The expert committee highlighted synergies with the objectives of RICAIP in the form of research contributions addressing the core tasks of object manipulation, using state-of-the-art artificial intelligence and vision methods combined with industry 4.0 standards based on realized experiments and the existence of own demonstrations.
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