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• This Week in St. Petersburg: May 22-28, 2025

  We have a festival-rich week ahead, with one very special birthday, intriguing exhibitions, a book lover’s haven, and more! Buckle up and let’s go!

  21.05.2025

• Nature Index: ITMO Ranks Second Among Russian Universities

  In the recent edition of Nature Index, ITMO took first place among St. Petersburg’s universities and the second nationwide. Nature Index is a ranking that reflects the number of publications by an institution’s scientists in leading scientific journals, as well as the university’s global scientific contributions. A total of 88 Russian universities and research organizations were evaluated in the ranking.

  20.05.2025

• 6 Must-Know Russian Fairy Tale Objects & Artifacts

  Did you know what were  the preferred weapons of mythical heroes from Russian fairy tales? What about the means of transportation favored by villains? Today, you will expand your wishlist with some magical objects known to any Russian, child and adult alike.

  20.05.2025

• ITMO Ranks in Top 3 of Advanced Engineering Schools Federal Project

  Following its recent defense before the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, ITMO University has taken the second spot in the ranking of advanced engineering schools within the federal project’s first wave. Results of the defenses were unveiled at a session of the project’s managing council, headed by Dmitry Afanasyev, the Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education

  19.05.2025

• AI Tool to Facilitate Mineral Processing Developed at ITMO

  Students of ITMO’s Computer Technologies Laboratory have created a series of AI models for processing of clumped texture images. AI models tend to have a hard time “seeing” the borders of objects – for instance, telling one type of mineral from another – but now they can label 600 images in an hour. The new open-source solution can be used to measure the size and distribution of various objects (granulometry) in a variety of fields: examples include precious and colored metals in mining, granular materials and crystals in food or agricultural industries, as well as oil refining.

  16.05.2025

• Russian Scientists’ Solution Promises to Improve Logistics in Big Cities

  Researchers from Sberbank’s Artificial Intelligence Lab and ITMO University have found a way to improve logistics in major cities. Their discovery may help improve the efficiency of cargo traffic, delivery and taxi services, and public transport. The resulting paper, Assessing the complexity of a path search optimization method based on clustering for a transport graph, was published in the Q1 journal EPJ Data Science.

  15.05.2025

• ITMO's Advanced Engineering School Delivers Updates on Successes So Far

  On May 14, the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education was presented with progress reports fromadvanced engineering schools launched within the dedicated federal project. ITMO presented the results of its Advanced Engineering School (AES) three years down the line, as well as strategic plans for the future.  The 2025 project leaders will be identified based on the defense.

  14.05.2025

• Phone Off, Hands On: Digital Detox Through Hobbies

  For this article, we decided to explore the wild world beyond our screens… through hobbies. We each picked one and ventured into the unknown over the long May holidays. What happened next? Discover our experiences below.

  13.05.2025

• ITMO’s Session on Nanophotonics Named Best at PIERS 2025

  The session Ultrafast and Nonlinear Nanophotonics organized by ITMO’s scientists was named the best among the 119 sessions of the world’s biggest conference in electrodynamics and optics, PIERS 2025. The award was given at the conference’s closing ceremony in Abu Dhabi. 

  13.05.2025

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

  In 2024, over 5.5 million cases of diabetes were registered in Russia, the majority of which (5.1 million) were type 2 diabetes. This is a tricky disease: for a long time, it can be almost asymptomatic, with many patients failing to notice that anything's amiss. Complications and even disability can be avoided with early diagnostics. Yuri Rykov, a health data scientist who has recently joined the ITMO Fellowship program, is working on a new system that will help detect pre-diabetes symptoms and stop the disease in its tracks. We spoke with Dr. Rykov about his project and the future of AI in medicine.

  12.05.2025