Honoring Excellence: Prizes for the Best Papers

The organizers of the CISIT 2026 Conference, hosted by the Institute of Computer Science at the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences of the University of Siedlce in collaboration with the IEEE CS Poland Chapter Unit CH08109, will evaluate the papers and presentations of young researchers – including graduates from the 2025-26 academic year and students – CISIT Conference participants.

Rules for awarding prizes and honors for the best papers

Following the rules for awarding prizes and honors for the best papers, the Steering Committee evaluated both the paper reviews and the presentations delivered during the conference sessions.

In young researchers group (master’s degree graduates of the 2025 – 26 academic year):

• First Place – Przemysław Koć, Artur Niewiadomski, Andrzej Sędek and Mateusz Przychodzki. VR Therapy S-eAI: Local AI for Emotion-Aware Conversational VR Training Award: 1,200 PLN funded by the IEEE Computer Society Poland Chapter Unit, plus a certificate.
• Second Place – Alicja Rojek and Dariusz Mikułowski. Modeling a City Space To Support Orientation Skils Of the Blind Users With a Dedicated Ontology And a Neighborhood Graph.
  Award: Certificate

In students group (together with engineering and bachelor’s degree graduates of the 2025 – 26 academic year):

• First Place (ex aequo):

  Mateusz Jarocki, Anna Wawrzynczak, Agnieszka Gil, Renata Modzelewska, Marek Siluszyk, Anna Wawrzaszek, Agnieszka Siluszyk, Szczepan Moskwa. A Feasibility Study of XGBoost-Based Short-Term Power Grid Failure Prediction from Space Weather Time Series.
  Award: 400 PLN funded by the IEEE Computer Society Poland Chapter Unit CH08109, plus a certificate.
  
  Mateusz Małagowski, Anna Wawrzynczak, Agnieszka Gil, Renata Modzelewska, Marek Siluszyk, Anna Wawrzaszek, A. Siluszyk, Szczepan Moskwa. Assessing Space-Weather and Grid-State Information for Short-Term Power-Grid Failure Forecasting with LSTM Networks.
  Award: 400 PLN funded by the IEEE Computer Society Poland Chapter Unit CH08109, plus a certificate.

• Second Place – Marya Sabeha, Farah Abu Al-Soud, Bayan Alfarrayeh, Mais Alashqar and Qasem Abu Al-Haija. DeepFakeGuard-Audio: An Audio Spectrogram Transformer for Robust Deepfake Detection.
  Award: Certificate.
  
  
• Third Place (ex aequo):

  Matas Pieczulis, Miroslaw Szaban and Franciszek Seredynski. Theoretical Concepts and Practical Development of a Simulator for Real-time Combat of Swarm Drones.
  Award: Certificate.

  Jakub Żurawicki. A Prototype-Based Analysis of AI-Driven NPC Dialogue in Video Games.
  Award: Certificate.

We congratulate all laureates for their exceptional work, dedication, and scientific contribution.