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• Yandex Scientific Award Laureate Aleksei Shpilman on Developing AI in Russia

  …rriculum: we had physics, chemistry, biology (even botanics), as well as high-level mathematics and programming. Though I was and still am a techie, I had an interest for life sciences, too, so I decided to specialize in computer modeling of intracellular systems and other related fields.  As I joined Yandex’s School of Data Analysis, I started to teach bioinforma…

  17.03.2023

• ITMO Students Win ChatGPT Hackathon

  …Ivan Samosevich and Alexander Dupak from the Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations and Azat Sibagatulin and Nikita Lazutin from the Institute of Applied Computer Science. They developed a bot for ITMO students that creates a selection of university events based on data from numerous sources. What the bot does  Team captain Ivan Samosevich knows fr…

  17.03.2023

• A Greenhouse for Startups: ITMO Accelerator Opens Applications

  …the market, which means both products are now in the pilot sales stage. All of this became possible thanks to the collaboration between ITMO’s Technopark and the Infochemistry Scientific Center.  Another successful example is SPAWN, the project that won ITMO’s foodtech accelerator. This project uses special fungi to transform cellulose-containing waste into new pr…

  16.03.2023

• Student Spotlight: Nathan Celeste, Congo

  …rm of scholarship is an added advantage for students. As a result, I decided to study in Russia over every other option. Also, I was really impressed by Russian culture and science. This made me even more excited to grab this opportunity.  How does it feel to be an international student at ITMO? I won’t lie, it is difficult for any foreigner to adapt to a ne…

  16.03.2023

• Optical Innovations: ITMO Researchers Create Controllable On-Chip Topological States

  …sary waveguide structure. Depending on the excitation pathway of this structure, photons can either scatter to the bulk or form topological edge states. See also: ITMO Scientists Find a Way to Reconfigure Topological States of Light ITMO Scientists Design a Model to Protect Quantum Computing From Disorder Dark Matter and Q…

  15.03.2023

• Gut Microbiota Can Predict Immunotherapy Response, ITMO Scientists Say

  …nes of interest, RECAST studies metagenomic samples from patients before and after the transplantation, and Songbird is used to analyze compositional data. As a result, the scientists managed to identify 101 donor-derived functional biomarkers that can determine a patient’s response to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) therapy. The data obtained can be used to d…

  15.03.2023

• The Legendary Scientists of St. Petersburg and Where To Find Them

  …i Mendeleev If you were to ask a Russian about Mendeleev, you would most likely hear this story: supposedly exhausted from his failed attempts to classify the elements, the scientist fell asleep at his desk and had the periodic table revealed to him in a dream. If your takeaway is that the desk must have had some magical properties, then you can tap into that powe…

  14.03.2023

• New Online Master’s Program: ITMO & Yandex To Train High-Load Systems Developers

  …, we’ve developed a program that will meet the expectations of students and their future employers,” adds Anton Kuznetsov, the director of ITMO’s Institute of Applied Computer Science. Applicants to the new program will need to pass a test and an interview. Registration for both will open in April on this page, with the studies starting in September. The program…

  14.03.2023

• ITMO Researchers Design a Dataset to Study the Functions of Immune Cells

  …ell functions. It helps researchers better understand the mechanisms underlying various diseases through analyzing the components involved in their development.  As of now, scientists have access to multiple databases that store information on gene expression, like Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) and ArrayExpress. Nevertheless, single-cell sequencing data has been g…

  10.03.2023

• Student Spotlight: Geraldine Guevara, Colombia

  …ially the ladies. They remind me of Colombian moms and grannies. They are so loving and caring. Russia is also a historically rich country that has made great contributions to science. I also appreciate the architecture. I really like the onion-shaped domes on most of the churches here. How much progress have you made in terms of learning Russian? To me, Ru…

  09.03.2023