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• Expert Center Ranking: ITMO Named Best Russian University in AI and Engineering

  ITMO is in the top five of the latest ranking of Russian universities compiled by the Expert analytics center. For the third year in a row, ITMO crowns the ranking in Engineering Sciences and Materials Science. The university also came first in Artificial Intelligence.

  15.05.2023

• Can AI Do My Job For Me? An Experiment

  As Google unveils its latest generative AI features for Gmail and Docs, and AI writing tools such as ChatGPT and Wordly continue to gain popularity, the question arises: can one exclusively rely on AI for writing-related tasks? Despite the significant limitations of the currently available AI tools, is it conceivable to complete a writing project using AI alone? Let's put machines to the test and see if they can truly replace human writers.

  09.05.2023

• Student Spotlight: Rahim Hakimov, Tajikistan

  ITMO’s unmatched success at ICPC inspires many youngsters to take up coding. Today, we’ll talk to someone who has not only made coding his vocation but also represented ITMO at the highest level. Meet Rahim Hakimov, a 20-year-old student from Tajikistan who is also a software engineer at Yandex. Thanks to his passion for coding, he has begun his career in big tech before even having graduated! Learn about Rahim’s incredible feats at ITMO in today's student spotlight.

  27.04.2023

• ChatGPT For School: How Students Use Neural Networks To Their Advantage

  The viral ChatGPT is becoming more and more powerful every day: it can now gather information, code, and even generate scripts. Though educational leaders are wary of its possible pitfalls, especially ever since a student confessed to using ChatGPT for his graduation paper, it can and already does create true value for teachers and students alike. In order to demonstrate its vast applications, ITMO hosted a meetup on the best ML and AI practices for the classroom.

  31.03.2023

• Hackathon To Develop New Skills for Yandex’s Virtual Assistant Concludes at ITMO

  Yandex’s virtual assistant, Alice, has developed several new skills thanks to the hackathon organized by ITMO’s Higher School of Digital Culture in cooperation with the company. The competition took place on March 4-26. The new functions include assisting students during exams and even helping users connect with potential friends.

  30.03.2023

• Yandex Director for AI: In a Year, ChatGPT Will Seem Mundane

  This March, OpenAI released its new AI model, GPT-4, and announced its integration into various apps and services – the most popular, of course, being the ground-breaking chatbot. IT companies all over the world are incorporating the bot into their products, but what’s happening in Russia? How will these developments impact education and the labor market? Alexander Krainov, the director for development of artificial intelligence technologies at Yandex, and invited experts discussed these issues at a recent meetup hosted by ITMO. Here’s our recap.

  29.03.2023

• Yandex Scientific Award Laureate Aleksei Shpilman on Developing AI in Russia

  Aleksei Shpilman had his start in bioinformatics, but later turned to developing AI technologies at Yandex, JetBrains, and Gazprom Neft. With the Ilya Segalovich Award from Yandex and several international contest wins under his belt, Aleksei sees training AI specialists as one of his key missions. In this article, the researcher explains what makes AI “magical,” how mathematics and algorithms can help people, and what can be done to bridge business and education.

  17.03.2023

• ITMO Students Win ChatGPT Hackathon

  Using OpenAI’s hot commodity software ChatGPT, a team of ITMO students programmed a Telegram bot that puts together a selection of ITMO events using data from various sources.

  17.03.2023

• AI Plus Chemistry: Lab Robots, Drug Development and More

  As science grows more complex, successful researchers have to rely on more than experiments and calculations: AI is quickly becoming indispensable. Predicting the properties of molecules and materials for drug delivery, synthesizing compounds with set properties, and developing new materials – these are just a few of the tasks flawlessly accomplished by AI. For this article, we turned to ITMO’s Nikita Serov, an engineer at the Center for Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry, to talk about the doors opened by AI in natural sciences.

  03.03.2023

• The Benefits of ITMO’s Master’s Program in Artificial Intelligence

  The Russian IT industry is found lacking about 1 million specialists, with data scientists, machine learning specialists, and data analysts being in most demand. The good news is, these are the kind of specialists trained at ITMO’s Master’s program Artificial Intelligence. This online program offers industry-oriented practical training, in addition to a wide array of studying and career opportunities. 

  28.02.2023