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May 26, 2026

AIRi@UTCN co-organizes ICASC 2026 in Cluj-Napoca

AIRi@UTCN is pleased to announce that it will co-organize the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Scientific Computing - ICASC 2026, which will take place between 21-23 October 2026 in Cluj-Napoca.

May 25, 2026

AIRi@UTCN welcomes Dr. İlknur Dönmez in Erasmus exchange

AIRI@UTCN is pleased to announce the visit of Dr. Ilknur Dönmez from Istanbul Health and Technology University, who is joining the AIRi research community @ TUCN as a visiting professor through the Erasmus programme.

May 18, 2026

AIRI@UTCN Welcomes Oumaima Majdoubi as Visiting Researcher

AIRI@UTCN is pleased to welcome Oumaima Majdoubi, PhD student at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco, for a three-month research stay supported by the Eugen Ionescu Research Grant.

May 18, 2026

Discovery Sprints on AI with Tenaris Representatives @AIRi@UTCN

The visit took place in the context of the long-standing cooperation between TUCN and Tenaris, with the aim of further strengthening connections between the company and our university under the patronage of AIRi@UTCN.

May 16, 2026

Cluj AI Buildathon - fast track to €30,000 in funding through 28Digital x ROTSA.

AI Buildathon is a 48-hour sprint where mixed teams — developers, designers, product people, marketers, and more - build functional AI prototypes for real problems in Cluj: mobility, education, local businesses, urban life. It takes place at ClujHub, as part of Zilele Clujului, and is organized by the Romanian Tech Startups Association, in collaboration with ADR Nord-Vest, INNO, and the Institute for Artificial Intelligence at UTCN.

May 15, 2026

AIRi@UTCN Highlights the First Edition of “U” Hack! Code in Black & White

The first hackathon in Romania dedicated to the use of technology and artificial intelligence in performance sports.

Apr 24, 2026

Benoit Challand joins AIRi@UTCN as Visiting Researcher

AIRi@UTCN is pleased to welcome French artist Benoit Challand as a visiting researcher for a week-long research stay starting May 5 2026. The artist and researcher will engage with the AIRi@UTCN research community around the project “Crystallize”, an artistic and technological exploration of how emotions can be translated into data, images, and sculptural forms.

Apr 18, 2026

AlloyGraph Launches as Open-Source AI Platform for Predicting, Designing, and Querying Nickel-Based Superalloys

AlloyGraph is an open-source platform that predicts mechanical properties of nickel-based superalloys, designs new alloy compositions, and answers natural language questions about superalloy data.

Apr 1, 2026

Committee on European Affairs @ AIRi@UTCN

AIRi@UTCN was pleased to welcome the delegation of the Committee on European Affairs of the Chamber of Deputies, led by Deputy Ovidiu-Vasile Cîmpean, Vice-Chair of the Committee, during its working visit to Cluj-Napoca, held in the context of the public debate on the future EU budget for 2028–2034.