Institute of Informatics

The Institute of Informatics conducts research in the field of informatics aimed at the effective development and management of safe, intelligent and reliable information systems, solutions and services. The focus of the research work is on data engineering and big data, artificial intelligence and intelligent systems, cyber, information and digital security and privacy, software engineering and agile development and process automation, centralized and decentralized architectures and systems.

At UM FERI, the Institute of Informatics is the main provider of education in undergraduate and postgraduate programs in Informatics and Data Technologies.

As part of our research in the field of IS architectures, we explore decentralized, cloud, big data, microservices and serverless architectures; data warehouses, data lakes and data spaces, and decentralized AI networks and systems.

Research in the broader field of intelligent systems addresses the challenges of the growing scale, complexity and multimodality of data, biased and unfair decisions of AI models, the need for customized machine learning solutions, and the challenges of models in production environments (MLOps/AI engineering).

We develop advanced approaches to IS development using intelligent components in the cloud, with a particular focus on DevSecOps practices, including CI/CD automation that ensures continuous testing, enforcement of secure code practices, and metric-based quality assessment.

Research in the field of cybersecurity and privacy focuses on the evaluation of approaches to improving system security and privacy, modern centralized and decentralized authentication methods, and proactive approaches to detecting and preventing cyber threats, including the use of artificial intelligence.

The research work in the field of business process management deals with a dynamic view of modern information solutions driven by advanced approaches to process modeling, flexible and unstructured process modeling, and process mining.