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• ITMO Launches Institute of Artificial Intelligence

  The newly-established Institute of Artificial Intelligence (AI) will conduct research and engage in the full cycle of development: from fundamental research to implementing solutions into the real sector of the economy. We talked to Alexander Boukhanovsky, the head of the Institute of AI, about the department’s ambitious goals, including the development of Russia’s strong AI (AGI) and the implementation of the AI-Inspired Science ecosystem.

  18.09.2025

• ITMO Experts Share Best Practices for Training Top Tech Leadership Specialists

  Technological leadership is born in university classrooms, where the next generation of professionals are trained to produce future discoveries and breakthroughs. How can the university train specialists capable of these breakthroughs? Can leadership be taught or is it something you have to be born with? These were the questions discussed at ITMO’s seventh intensive course The Formula of Fundamentality in Education at ITMO. Read on for the key insights. 

  17.09.2025

• The Experiment: Testing Folk Tips for Falling Asleep

  How can you fall asleep when you’ve just had an exciting and busy day and you’re already anticipating the next one? Having often struggled myself, I decided to search for various folk remedies or tips for falling asleep and test them for this article. For a fun twist, I turned to Consensus, a service that answers any question with summaries of relevant research papers. Read on to see folk wisdom scientifically tested and pick up a few sleep lifehacks!

  12.09.2025

• Toxi$, Lecture Memes, and Student Club Festival: Recap of ITMO Universe for First-Year Students

  Lectures, workshops, student clubs, and a concert by Toxi$ (a popular Russian rapper – Ed.) – all that awaited newly-enrolled students at ITMO Universe. Here is how it went.

  12.09.2025

• Networking on Wheels: Highlights of 22nd Bike Ride With the Rector

  At ITMO, the fall season is off to a lively start – in September, our staff and students traditionally come together for a bike ride with Rector Vladimir Vasilyev. Over 150 people joined the latest, 22nd, bike ride – read on for the highlights.

  10.09.2025

• This Week in St. Petersburg: September 11-17, 2025

  Are you enjoying the year’s first classes? We hope they are fun! Our list of all the goings-on in St. Pete will help make those hours spent outside of class fun, too – take a look. 

  10.09.2025

• ITMO Researchers Develop Affordable, Versatile Model for Tracking Potential Production Accidents

  A team of scientists from ITMO University has developed software that can automatically track potential human causes of industrial accidents, such as drinking or smoking in the workplace. Unlike its alternatives, the model is capable of detecting up to 10 events simultaneously, has the accuracy of 80% (higher than that of VideoMAE, the best open-source model trained on the same data), and requires less computational resources. The algorithm is already in use at a major production site in Perm Krai, where it has lowered the required number of in-person checkups by threefold.

  08.09.2025

• Records & Key Numbers: Results of ITMO's 2025 Admissions Campaign

  ITMO University has summarized the results of the admissions campaign for Bachelor's, Master's, and PhD programs in 2025. This year, the university saw a record number of contest winners among Bachelor’s applicants – in this regard, ITMO is the top university in St. Petersburg and one of the leading in Russia. Additionally, the number of applications for Bachelor’s and Master’s programs grew by 16% and 20%, respectively. A total of 292 young scientists from Russia and abroad were enrolled in PhD programs.

  03.09.2025

• Back to School Guide: Ring in the Academic Year

  It’s September, which means all students are about to go back to class for some much-awaited new knowledge, homework sessions with their groupmates, and lots of new opportunities within and outside the university! We know this time can be quite nerve-wrecking, so we’ve decided to take some pressure off of your shoulders with this comprehensive back-to-school guide. Enjoy and happy learning!

  02.09.2025

• ITMO CONF 2025: Synthesis of Science, Technologies, and People

  The question of bringing together science, education, and business in the era of AI became the main topic of ITMO CONF 2025 – an annual conference that sets the key areas of development at ITMO University. The heads of the university’s departments and senior researchers met at Nikolskiye Ryady to showcase brand-new educational models, research breakthroughs, and successful commercialization cases. Here are the highlights.

  29.08.2025