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• Student Spotlight: Stefan Labovic, Montenegro

  … course, try to achieve a good score at the end of my Bachelor's studies so that I can get my Master's at ITMO or elsewhere. Any advice for other international students who want to come to Russia and learn the language, get a Bachelor’s degree, change their life as you did? Would you recommend it? The biggest advice I can give to other international students w…

  25.02.2021

• ITMO Professor Alexander Boukhanovsky on How AI Can Help Economy in Crisis

  …hat is either important for the development of the field of the project or for obtaining new results in other fields. However, in this case we also pursue our own goal – we want to create a stable scientific school for mathematical methods in behavioral economics and finance at ITMO. We can say that over these four years the school has been established. Now, howev…

  25.02.2021

• How To Write a Successful Grant Application and Get Funding: Tips for Young Scientists

  …he secrets of writing a successful grant application, and talked about how to increase your chances of winning. First steps First, you need to know precisely why you want to take part in a grant contest. Receiving even a small grant is a very important line in the CV of any student or graduate; it is an expert assessment of your work and competencies. This …

  25.02.2021

• SingleStore Founder Nikita Shamgunov on How to Launch a Startup

  …the lecturer discussed why one should open a business in the first place. According to him, there are four reasons. The first one is for people who have an idea, a dream. They want to implement it, they’re ready to spend hours and weeks on creating an app or inventing something, even though no one is going to pay them for that. If this idea turns out to be good, they…

  24.02.2021

• Art & Science Open Day: New Majors, New Formats, New Opportunities

  …ech Art, Digital Art, and BioArt. In our opinion, these three fields cover today’s trends in scientific and tech art, and we strive to find common ground between them. We also want to blur the line between theory and practice in art. Therefore, our course is practice-oriented yet insightful, moreover, deeply immersed in the theory behind what we do,” explains Vadim S…

  24.02.2021

• Top Five Places in Russia You Can’t Really Visit

  …is”, is an underwater town in lake Svetloyar near Nizhny Novgorod. It is said that when Batu Khan, a ruler of the Golden Horde who tried to conquer Russia in the 13th century, wanted to attack Kitezh, people living there didn’t try to defend themselves. Instead, they prayed for salvation, and it came – the city suddenly began to submerge under the water. Many stories…

  22.02.2021

• ITMO Scientists Propose Improved Solar Cells for Use in Smart Glass

  …n be able to tell if they’re there or not with the naked eye. The reason is that they absorb almost no visible light and function only in the near-infrared spectrum. But if we want, we can change the thickness or the chemical composition to turn them, for instance, a pleasant shade of blue or orange. In order to preserve the structure’s transparency, we use nanotubes…

  20.02.2021

• Quantified Self and Personal Science: How I Almost Missed the Point

  …t of useful gimmicks and apps. On the whole, all of that was quite interesting, but as with many such blog posts, its message was something like “here’s a cool thing you might want to try” rather than “it’s something that really works, and here’s some sound evidence you’d want to check out”. The third piece in support of the quantum …

  19.02.2021

• ITMO Professor Aleksandr Farseev on Long Tail Marketing and 2020 Gartner Cool Vendors Award

  …ads. Our platform works with over 11,000 interests — and on a large number of target groups at the same time. And how can it be applied in real life, for example, in case I want to advertise a soda?  So, you want to run a soda ad; then you should hire a marketing specialist, who will go to their ad accounts on social media and set…

  19.02.2021

• ITMO Student Wins NOAA Machine Learning Competition

  … For instance, the system will be able to detect when drivers get distracted by smartphones and send them reminders to focus on the road.  “When I was accepted to ITMO, I wanted to study computer vision and image processing. Alexey Kashevnik recommended me to get into machine learning. He gave me that initial push, for which I am very grateful. At first, I worke…

  19.02.2021