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• Student Spotlight: Kseniia Shmankova, Belarus

  After visiting St. Petersburg with family, Kseniia Shmankova felt a connection to the city and knew she wanted to explore it further. Now a student of business informatics at ITMO, the future leader shares her experiences of carving her path in business and IT, making friends, and living her best student life.

  16.10.2025

• ITMO Researchers Present Smart Assistant for Nanostructured Materials Design

  Experts at ITMO have created an AI-based platform that automates the search and processing of scientific literature on nanomaterials design. This smart assistant takes minutes to process a user’s request, analyze the related data, and generate responses with 81% accuracy. The system also has an additional agent that evaluates response quality and, if needed, edits the prompt, which brings the risk of hallucinations down a further 15%. With the platform, research teams will be able to proceed from hypothesis to experiment faster. The new assistant and related research were described in a paper published in Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling.

  15.10.2025

• This Week in St. Petersburg: October 16-22, 2025

  Some say fall is mostly gray, but we look outside and see a whole palette of colors, from light green to yellow and even crimson. This week, we’ll be filling our calendars to match this diversity: with concerts, screenings, exhibitions, and even a market to boot.

  15.10.2025

• Cyberpunk on Film: 4 Cult Classics to Watch

  From Blade Runner to Cyberpunk 2077, the “low-life, high-tech” genre has introduced us to dozens of iconic worlds. It has had a massive impact on pop culture, architecture, and even fashion – and it’s only becoming more mainstream as its previously outlandish ideas grow closer to reality. In today’s movie digest, we take a quick look at four cult films that didn’t make a splash upon release, but have since gained a following around the world.

  14.10.2025

• All About ITMO’s New Track for I Am a Professional Contest

  This season of the I Am a Professional contest welcomes a new track by ITMO University – Product Management in Digital Business. Medalists, winners, and diploma holders of the I Am a Professional Competition have the chance to receive up to 300,000 rubles, an opportunity to enter Russia’s top universities, or an internship at a major company. To learn more about the new track and its tasks, we turned to Alexander Volkov, curator of the track and head of the educational program Technologies and Innovations by ITMO’s Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations.

  13.10.2025

• Million-Ruble Prize Fund and Tasks From Yandex: All About the Artificial Intelligence and Data Analysis Olympiad

  This year marks the second season of the international Artificial Intelligence and Data Analysis Olympiad (AIDAO), organized by Yandex and HSE University. Winners will split a 2.65 million-ruble prize fund. Last year, a team of ITMO students, Daria Ledneva and Timur Ionov, was named best. They won 600,000 rubles, boosted their IT skills, and expanded their professional portfolios. Today, we asked them why others should join this season’s AIDAO and what helped them prepare for the contest.

  10.10.2025

• I Am a Professional Season 9: All About Information and Cyber Security Track

  Medalists, winners, and diploma holders of the I Am a Professional Competition have the chance to receive up to 300,000 rubles, an opportunity to enter Russia’s top universities, or an internship at a major company. This year, ITMO curates several of the contest’s tracks, including Information and Cyber Security. Read on to learn more about the track and how to prepare for its tasks from Alexander Menshchikov, curator of the track and dean of ITMO’s Faculty of Secure Information Technologies. The track’s general partner is Sberbank.

  09.10.2025

• Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Next-Gen Smart Sorbents

  The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to researchers Susumu Kitagawa (Japan), Richard Robson (Australia), and Omar M. Yaghi (USA) for the development of metal-organic frameworks that can be used for gas sorption and separation, as well as to collect water from desert air, detect toxic gases, accelerate chemical reactions, and even process data. We asked Valentin Milichko, a leading researcher at ITMO’s Faculty of Physics, how this technology works and how it’s already used in practice.

  08.10.2025

• Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Quantum Tunnelling: ITMO NEWS Explains

  In 2025, the Nobel Prize in Physics went to John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis for their discovery of macroscopic quantum tunnelling. What is the essence of this phenomenon and how has it already changed our daily lives? To get it all explained, we turned to Ivan Iorsh, a chief research associate of ITMO’s School of Physics and Engineering.

  07.10.2025

• ITMO Researchers Suggest Model to Predict Parameters of Laser Metal Transfer Onto Glass

  Scientists from ITMO University have developed a physical and mathematical model to predict the parameters of laser metal ablation onto a transparent substrate. Apart from providing a detailed model of the physical process, the new tool can predict its key parameters with a 90% accuracy. This opens up possibilities for the controlled creation of metallic coatings with micron-level resolution on glass, such as indelible protective marks and decorative elements. The results of this Russian Science Foundation-supported study were published in International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.

  06.10.2025