This semester was about seizing opportunities I wouldn’t have if I stayed in Prague. I joined Horyzn — a student engineering organization that builds life-saving drones. I also got to experience Munich to the fullest. I took interesting computer vision and machine learning courses and continued with my Chinese studies. Horyzn …

Finally, in-person classes. At least sort of. The third semester was in a hybrid format, which meant some things were online (especially lectures) and some were in-person (tutorials). This meant I could finally visit campus and meet my classmates. This semester I took machine learning/algorithm courses and I was finally…

The biggest advantage of the United Kingdom being out of the EU is that I can now claim I study at the best university in the EU — Technical University of Munich — at least according to QS rankings. This semester, I have fought a serious illness and therefore was…

Before I started studying at Technical University of Munich (TUM) somebody told me that getting accepted is the easiest step. At that time I simply refused to believe it. I had really good grades at Czech Technical University (CTU) and even represented CTU internationally. Studying at TUM can’t be that…

In this article, I’ve decided to analyze the results of the largest competitive programming contest in the world — ACM ICPC. International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is a team competition between universities. Teams of three people attempt to solve as many problems as possible. The team that solves the most…

It was a year ago (summer 2019) when I was deciding what topic to choose for my bachelor thesis. At the time I was finishing an internship at the European Space Agency where I worked on mineralogical machine learning research¹. However, I also knew that at my university there is…

This article is most suited for individuals who would like to pursue a Master’s degree with a focus on machine learning/data science and need some guidance on their decision making. It highlights the best universities, their respective programmes, my experiences regarding the admission process, and the results. Best Universities One year ago…