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• PI School Participants Share Their Stories

  ITMO University has recently hosted a summer school for young scholars striving for international recognition. The school participants defended their roadmaps for developing world-class laboratories in their regions and shared their impressions with ITMO.NEWS.

  28.06.2021

• ITMO.EduLeaders Winners: Alexey Peregudin on His Student Life, Teaching Career, and Competition

  The third interview of the ITMO.EduLeaders Winners series stars Alexey Peregudin, an assistant at ITMO’s Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics, who shares more about how he got into teaching, why he doesn’t hide his student mischiefs, and what he’s planning next.

  24.06.2021

• ITMO Lecturer Konstantin Pravdin Takes Home Gazprom Neft Educational Award

  Konstantin Pravdin, an employee at ITMO’s Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics, received the Gazprom Neft Award in the Go Digital category at the annual We Are in the Future conference. His YouTube channel with content on mathematics was named the best digital learning solution.

  23.06.2021

• Scientific Leadership: ITMO Hosts PI School by SCAMT

  The PI School is designed for young scholars wishing to learn how to put together teams, pose scientific objectives, seek project funding, and publish their results in major peer-reviewed journals. At the end of the one-week course, students will present their roadmaps for creating research laboratories that will be noticed not only in Russia but also in the world.

  21.06.2021

• ITMO.EduLeaders Winners: Yulia Romanenko on Her Career Path, Soft Skills Course, and Competition

  ITMO.NEWS continues to share the stories of the ITMO.EduLeaders winners and presents Yulia Romanenko, a soft skills lecturer. In this interview, Yulia spoke about why she left a large retail company for the university, how she balances her family and work life, and why soft skills are essential for students of all specializations.

  17.06.2021

• Hackathons in Education: ITMO Team Shares Their Experience

  ITMO’s Natural Systems Simulation Lab, operating within the National Center for Cognitive Research, is integrating hackathons into education and research. One of its first great triumphs is an ML model called FEDOT that impressed the expert board and brought the lab’s team a victory at the Emergency DataHack.

  16.06.2021

• ITMO.EduLeaders Winners: Ekaterina Tyurikova on Her Career Path and Modern Teaching

  ITMO.NEWS presents a new series of publications about the winners of the ITMO.EduLeaders competition where they talk about themselves, their career paths, and the best practices. The first guest of the series is Ekaterina Tyurikova, a lecturer at ITMO’s Faculty of Energy and Ecotechnology, who spoke about her teaching style, attitude towards students, and gaming in education.

  10.06.2021

• First in Russia: ITMO Launches New PhD Program in AI

  The new list of fields for PhD and DSc degrees now includes topical fields – among them are Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. ITMO University has launched the first and so far the only PhD program in Russia in the field of AI. Applications for the program for the next academic year open this summer. ITMO.NEWS talked to Alexander Boukhanovsky, head of the National Center for Cognitive Research, and Maria Skvortsova, head of the Department of Higher Qualification Expert Training, about the contents of the program, features of the offered training, and aspects of the application process.

  09.06.2021

• SPIEF 2021: ITMO First Vice Rector Daria Kozlova on New Reality and University of the Future

  Today, on June 4, the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2021 (SPIEF-2021) featured a discussion on innovative educational technologies in the service of business. During the session, ITMO’s First Vice Rector Daria Kozlova spoke about how the pandemic has accelerated the university’s digital transformation and highlighted the benefits of cooperation between different educational platforms.

  04.06.2021

• ITMO.OPEN: Educational Practices Conference Sheds Light on New Understanding of Uni Administration

  On May 24-25, ITMO University hosted ITMO.OPEN: Educational Practices, a conference for teaching and administrative staff of Russian universities. The participants discussed current trends, challenges, and issues of higher education. One of the event’s roundtable discussions focused on the role of a dean. Heads of ITMO’s structural units shared their experience with modernization, student outreach, and talent search.

  01.06.2021