Topic: student

The University of Tartu claimed overall victory at this year’s Student Summer Games, ahead of Tallinn University of Technology in intense competition. University of Tartu athletes won first place in 20 of the 46 events and activities, securing the overall title.

On 3 June, the poster session of the University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science Student Project Contest took place in the Delta study building, where the best student projects were selected.

On 13 May, the Estonian Doctoral School – a joint initiative of all Estonian universities – celebrates European Doctoral Day, an occasion that invites discussion on the value of doctoral studies.

On 4 May 2026 Modar Sulaiman defended his doctoral dissertation "From Data to Fair Decisions: On Ensuring Fairness in Machine Learning Models“ (supervisor Kallol Roy). On this occasion, we spoke with Modar about his path in research.

On 28 April 2026, Tarun Khajuria defended his doctoral dissertation titled “Scene understanding in human and computer vision” (supervised by Jaan Aru). On this occasion Laura Altin spoke with Tarun.

On 25 January, Mahir Gulzar defended his doctoral thesis „Addressing Real-world Scenarios via Motion Prediction in Autonomous Driving “. We spoke with Mahir about his journey in research.