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• It Is Lies that Spread Panic: ITMO PhD Student on Automated Identification of Fake News

  …lity of publication began to grow. Still, we shouldn’t forget that fake news appears not only due to technical difficulties or authors’ mistakes. Fake news were often commissioned and used to destroy a competitor’s reputation or to destabilize the situation in a country. ITMO PhD student Arseniy Tretyakov is working on a system that will make use of neural netw…

  10.04.2020

• Life After MVP: How Startups Can Avoid the Post-Acceleration “Crash and Burn”

  … can help you avoid his problem: HADI cycles. They consist of four stages: Hypothesis, Action (testing the hypothesis), Data (acquiring information), and Insight (making conclusions based on the action’s success or lack thereof). HADI cycles must be done regularly on a one- or two-week basis. One week is enough for B2C, where you can quickly measure an action’s ef…

  10.04.2020

• William Ngona Mulenga: ITMO Opened Up a Whole New World of Opportunities For Me

  …ic growth. What surprised you about ITMO? Before I answer that question, allow me to say thank you to a few people. My program manager, my research professor, the admissions team, the Student Services Office and the International Office. These people have been very helpful in ensuring that I get the most out of my education. I am very grateful. My classmates …

  09.04.2020

• ITMO University PhD Student Evgeniy Odlyanitskiy on Creating a Laser Facility During Isolation

  …spot in focus would be as small as possible. As there are no facilities of that kind in Europe yet, and there’s only one of them in Japan, I used the LTEM (Laser Terahertz Emission Microscope) method as proposed by Prof. M. Tonouchi. So there are no similar systems in Russia at the moment? As far as I know, there are no facilities based on Tonouchi’s princi…

  09.04.2020

• Oncologist Maksim Kotov: Communicating With a Patient Shouldn’t Be a Game of Luck

  …“In Russia, medical professionals aren’t taught to communicate with patients” What started your journey of teaching the basics of medical communication? This is a rather long story. Initially, I started hosting similar workshops especially for doctors. Just because this isn’t taught at medical universities.  You didn’t have such a course at your university, …

  08.04.2020

• Life During a Pandemic: Experiences, Changes, Silver Linings

  …to hold on to. I am sure many of us went through this in some form. Luckily, this stage didn’t last long, subsiding with every Zoom class, every distant study group working session, every task that I managed to get off my list. Gradually, new routines entered my life, and everything stopped being so up in the air. Right now, I, too, am grateful, for everyone I have i…

  07.04.2020

• How to Follow a Healthy Diet During Self-Isolation

  …he immune system and undermines the body’s ability to cope with infectious diseases. Alcohol doesn’t help one cope with stress, on the contrary, it increases symptoms of depression. It also provokes anxiety, fear and panic that can intensify during self-isolation and quarantine. Fifth of all, it’s recommended to stay hydrated, preferably by drinking plain water in…

  07.04.2020

• ITMO University Starts Competition for Over 470 Academic Vacancies

  …ven’t joined its team yet. All candidates have to meet the standards of the ITMO Code, presented as a formula V+F+PS+SS, where V stands for values, F – fundamental, PS – professional skills, and SS – soft skills.  How to apply? Internal candidates should apply via ITMO University’s management information system (ISU). All relevant instructions are available on …

  06.04.2020

• Quadcopter vs. Traffic Safety Inspectors: Researchers Test Drones for Traffic Road Accident Analysis

  …roup at the Faculty of Infocommunication Technologies. For a while now, scientists and engineers have been trying to enhance the capabilities of standard quadcopters for professional use. They are developing special transport modules, almost like portable airfields for drones that could fit into a garage box on the roof of a car, or in its luggage compartment.  Th…

  06.04.2020

• Entrepreneur Vaagn Ogannisian: Businesses Must Make Friends With Universities

  …actory. They always talked shop at home: about beer, about technology. I probably never had the chance to choose anything else. But I became genuinely interested in this profession and fell in love with it, so I never regretted that choice. So it wasn’t your parents’ choice? Yes, it was my own. They only wanted to help, such as with choosing a university. Do…

  03.04.2020