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• ITMO Fellow Balamuralithara Balakrishnan on Creativity and Developing Products Using Design Thinking

  According to a recent study by LinkedIn, creative thinking is still among the most sought-after skills in business. However, it is no longer enough to “simply” come up with creative ideas – now they have to be developed with ethical norms in mind, as well as benefit the society, economy, and environment. Can we measure creativity? What is design thinking and how can we use it to make truly necessary products? In this article, we turn to an ITMO Fellow, the Malaysian researcher Balamuralithara Balakrishnan, for answers.

  24.11.2022

• ITMO’s Advanced Engineering School Awards Grants to Genetics, Machine Learning, Nanomaterials Projects

  Having been founded earlier in 2022 with federal support, ITMO's Advanced Engineering School has already welcomed its 55 first students, chosen from among the participants of the Master's programs Chemistry and Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Engineering, and Digital Systems Engineering. Recently, the school held a scholarship contest to support ambitious students wishing to develop their own products alongside their Master’s studies and acquire the competencies of lead engineers. In this article, we talk to the creators of three winning projects about their plans and goals now that they’ve won the scholarship.

  23.11.2022

• A Data-Driven University: How Computer Vision Facilitates ITMO’s Academic Processes

  With the start of the new academic year, ITMO University acquired a novel tool to evaluate the quality of the academic process. Now, a computer vision system involving over 200 cameras placed around campus can monitor the load of study rooms and recommend the most convenient study locations to students. The project is developed by the university’s Learning Analytics Center’s partly student-led team. What does the project involve? Discover in this article.

  22.11.2022

• WUD@ITMO 2022: Career-Building Skills and UI for Healthcare

  Since 2005, every second Thursday of November has been celebrated as World Usability Day (WUD), a day when UX and UI designers come together to share their cases and ideas on improving user experience. ITMO honors the occasion with its own international conference WUD@ITMO, which was held this year for the eighth time. Learn all about the main topics discussed at the event in this article.

  21.11.2022

• Schrödinger's Croissant: How ITMO Experts Explain Science With Pastry

  ITMO University, along with the Bushe bakery chain, released a collaborative pop-sci project called Schrödinger's Croissant. This is a limited-edition pastry with a secret filling and a QR code to a set of short clips by the university’s scientists that explain the concepts behind multiverse, teleportation, and other mysteries of the quantum world. ITMO.NEWS caught up with the project’s experts for some rapid fire questions about how they pulled it off and challenged them to explain some complex ideas in plain language.

  21.11.2022

• ITMO Grad Gennady Korotkevich Reigns Supreme at Topcoder Open 2022

  The world’s top programmer has once again won first place in the competition’s Algorithm track.

  21.11.2022

• ITMO Named Best Russian University in Training IT Professionals

  This was revealed in the results of the ranking compiled by Russoft, an association of Russian software developers, based on a survey among IT companies who consider universities as suppliers of trained professionals. A total of 147 universities were included in the ranking.

  18.11.2022

• ITMO Researchers Twist Particles Using Quantum Entanglement

  Twisted particles have found their applications in many fields, such as optomechanics, biology, astrophysics, as well as quantum optics, information science, and communications, where, for instance, they can be used to increase data capacity. However, as these particles are primarily obtained through diffraction gratings, they can’t yet be used for experiments in nuclear and particle physics given the high energies of particles used in contemporary colliders. As a solution to this problem, physicists from ITMO University have suggested a method of obtaining such particles using the so-called generalized measurements, without relying on any special equipment. Their research was supported by a Russian Science Foundation grant, with its results published in The European Physical Journal C (Particles and Fields).

  17.11.2022

• MTS to Teach ITMO Students to Develop Recommendation Systems in Python

  MTS, a Russian telecom company, has launched a course on the development of recommendation systems using Python for the joint online Master’s program Machine Learning Engineering delivered by ITMO University and Napoleon IT. Over three weeks, big data specialists from MTS will give lectures, seminars, and Q&A sessions, as well as offer tasks based on the company’s actual cases using open-source data and frameworks.

  17.11.2022

• A Quiet Place: ITMO Physicists Reduce Noise Tenfold With Metamaterial Structure

  Imagine you are in a park in the bustling downtown and there is sunshine, fresh air, and… total quiet. Doesn’t feel real, does it? Researchers from ITMO University have developed a translucent vented structure that decreases noise by up to 20 dB within the spectral range of 2 to 16.5 kHz. This means that it covers 70% of the audible bandwidth. The new structure can be used to build noise-insulating barriers alongside roads or pavilions in parks.

  16.11.2022