Department of Software Engineering
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About the department
Department of Software Engineering (known mainly under the Czech acronym KSI) is a part of School of Computer Science of Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague.
We focus on teaching and research in the field of software and database systems together with their applications, and provide courses for undergraduate and graduate students in software and data engineering programs.
The department comprises several informal research groups, covering topics such as multimedia retrieval, recommender systems, semantic web and linked data technologies, knowledge graphs, data integration, big data, research software engineering, bioinformatics, distributed computing, and high-performance parallel systems. The research is conducted within the national and European research frameworks, as well as applied and contract-research projects.
Latest news
- Vít and his work on proteins featured on FMP website (2026-08-27)
- Interview with Patrik featured at FMP website (2026-06-23)
- MM-mapsearch demo receives Honorable Mention at EDBT 2026 (2026-04-07)
- PraK v4 wins the Video Browser Showdown 2026 (2026-02-17)
Latest publications
- Dataspecer: Development of Consistent Semantic Data Specification Ecosystems (2026)
- What Drove Success at the 15th Video Browser Showdown? (2026)
- Multi-omic data fusion reveals the in vivo enzyme kinetics of Vibrio natriegens at the genome-scale (2026)
- Efficient Learning of Sparse Representations from Interactions (2026)
- From Knots to Knobs: Towards Steerable Collaborative Filtering Using Sparse Autoencoders (2026)
- Protein Language Models and Structure-Based Machine Learning for Prediction of Allosteric Binding Sites in Protein Kinases: An Explainable AI Framework Grounded in Energy Landscape-Encoded Frustration (2026)
- Predicting and Decoding Allosteric Binding Sites Using Protein Language Models and Structure-Based Machine Learning: An Energy Landscape-Guided Explainable AI Framework (2026)