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How Learning Analytics Is Helping ITMO Students Design Their Educational Tracks
Every semester, ITMO University learns more about its students’ academic performance, research work, and extracurricular activities. Using this data, a 10-person team headed by Sviatoslav Oreshin designs useful new services for current and future ITMO students. We decided to find out more about their work and how it benefits the university’s educational system.
19.11.2020
How Not to Fall For Fake News
We’re joined by researcher Arseniy Tretyakov and Maksim Tovkailo, a co-founder of the Fakecheck.ru fact-checking service to find out how not to fall victim to fake news.
13.11.2020
Media Research Group’s Aleksandr Farseev On Advertising Algorithms and Social Network Monopolies
During the past three years, a team of researchers from the Machine Learning Lab has been studying artificial intelligence in the field of social network analysis. Aleksandr Farseev, the head of the team, discussed tasks they worked on and the results they achieved.
01.10.2020
Computer Graphics and Machine Learning Conference GraphiCon-2020 Begins in St. Petersburg
On September 22-25, ITMO University is hosting the international conference GraphiCon-2020. Established in 1991, the conference is a key event for specialists in the world of computer graphics and adjacent fields.
23.09.2020
How Robots Help Us Deal With Online Toxicity
Every day, billions of people use social media to communicate with each other. But some of them doxx others, insult them, and act in a toxic manner. ITMO.NEWS met with Ivan Smetannikov, the co-head of ITMO’s Machine Learning Lab, to find out how algorithms help us combat this behavior.
16.09.2020
New Library for Dimensionality Reduction ITMO_FS
Students and staff of the Machine Learning Lab at ITMO University Laboratory developed a library for Python that helps to solve one of the key problems of machine learning. In this article, we will tell you why this tool appeared and what it can do.
31.08.2020
ITMO Team Joins the Silver League of Google’s Anti-Cyberbullying Competition
Approximately 1,500 teams participated in the event. The competitors were tasked with training a neural network to identify toxic, hostile, and obscene comments in various languages among dozens of thousands of regular texts.
14.08.2020
ITMO University Co-Hosts Machine Learning Cup for School Students From Samara
Participants of the event attended lectures by industry experts and designed assignments for each other. For example, some were tasked with creating a bot that would emulate the classic authors of Russian literature, while others – a bot capable of identifying the language used in online comments.
06.08.2020
Scientists Optimize Growing Neurons from Stem Cells Using Machine Learning and Robots
A UK scientist and a PhD student from ITMO University’s Machine Learning Lab have created a robot that automates biological experiments. The invention will make it possible to train an algorithm for controlling the growth of neurons from stem cells. Going forward, the project’s authors plan to generate circuits from neurons grown that way.
27.07.2020
ITMO University and VK Carry Out Research in the Field of Machine Learning and User Metrics
In addition to making it possible to improve the tools for analyzing user activity and algorithm training, the research also has fundamental value. Work on the project continued for about six months, with its results currently being used to develop research papers.
17.07.2020