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• Lasers for Medicine: ITMO Alumna’s Startup Aims to Improve Cancer Treatment

  …Why did you decide to specialize in lasers? I enrolled in university at 16, back when I didn’t know what I wanted to do in life. However, I knew about laser technologies and understood that a fundamental education in this field would have a multitude of applications. By the way, that turned out to be true: I tried my hand at different fields – first, the metal and…

  05.06.2025

• Student Spotlight: Wang Qin, China

  …Hello! Please introduce yourself to our readers. Sure! My name is Wang Qin, and I’m from Chengdu in Sichuan Province, China. It’s a beautiful city, best known as the home of giant pandas and spicy hotpot. You completed your Master’s in computer systems and technologies at ITMO. What made you choose this university and program? After finishing my Bachelor's d…

  05.06.2025

• Celebrating City Day: St. Petersburg Off the Beaten Track

• ITMO Launches Institute of Applied Mathematics

  …s to do with AI.  AI, in the current common sense of the word – I’m talking about image generation via neural networks and so on – is cool, but it’s not something that we’d want to limit ourselves to. The hype around neural networks is dying down, which is well known. This is why it’s just natural that we need to move on and create AI-based systems that can solve …

  23.05.2025

• Student Spotlight: Basil Soufi, USA

  … always been curious about the world. I’ve traveled a lot, and Russia has always fascinated me. It’s very different from the US. I had already visited several times before and wanted to improve my Russian. It’s spoken in many countries, so learning it really opens up a rich world of culture, literature, and geography. You mentioned previous visits – what cities ha…

  22.05.2025

• 6 Must-Know Russian Fairy Tale Objects & Artifacts

  … its discoverer – others connect it to ukladny (an old word for made of steel). Self-replenishing tablecloth (скатерть-самобранка) Used as: movable feast Who wouldn’t want a tablecloth that can set the table and then clean up all on its own? At Hogwarts, these tasks were accomplished by the untiring house elves, but in Russian fairy tales the tablecloth poss…

  20.05.2025

• Student Spotlight: Sophia Gallegos, USA

  …phia! Where are you originally from, and what brought you to Russia in the first place? Hello! I’m from the USA, more specifically, California. My parents decided that they wanted to move here, at first just for a few years to try it out, and after they liked it, they decided to stay. I moved with them and later chose to go to university here! So you completed …

  15.05.2025

• Phone Off, Hands On: Digital Detox Through Hobbies

  … margins (of course, if that’s your book – and you’re that kind of a punk, like myself) and then go back to them when you finish the book, which feels much more awkward if you want to do so on an ereader, for instance. In general, I’d say reading is an excellent analog hobby, especially if you feel like hitting the off switch on the digital – or the real, to be ho…

  13.05.2025

• Health Data Scientist Yuri Rykov on Early Diabetes Diagnostics and AI in Medicine

  …nd there are interesting teams and projects. This year, I decided to join ITMO – despite having a nice job, I felt the lack of research activities and an inner drive that I wanted to devote to digital medicine. Why did you choose this field? When I did sociology research, I grew interested in online health-related communities. I wan

  12.05.2025

• Staff Spotlight: Alena Ermochenko

  …ses and, at times, struggling, I would note what teaching styles I liked, what I’d change in the way a certain topic was delivered, or some cool techniques. I knew then that I wanted to become a lecturer and that it was important for me to learn from the best. In order to do that, I needed a PhD degree. So that was the plan! I went step by step. After my Bachelor’…

  08.05.2025