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• ITMO PhD Students Train Chess-Playing Algorithm to Design Robots

  Roboticists at ITMO have found a way to optimize the development of robotic systems with the help of the MCTS (Monte Carlo tree search) algorithm, commonly used for chess and renowned for its victories over numerous human grandmasters. The PhD students adapted the algorithm to generate designs for robots and deliver the optimal solution within hours – a process that usually takes more than a week. Results of the study were presented at the IROS (IEEE Intelligent Robots and Systems) conference.

  18.10.2024

• Hacking Protein Structures: Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded for Protein Design and Structure Prediction

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 was awarded to the American researcher David Baker “for computational protein design” and the British researchers Demis Hassabis and John Jumper “for protein structure prediction.” In this article, we turn to ITMO researchers to find out why we need to predict protein structure and how AI can help us in this process.

  09.10.2024

• New Corporate Lab: ITMO and Rosneft to Develop IT Solutions for Geological Exploration

  ITMO and the oil and gas giant Rosneft have announced the launch of a new joint laboratory of modern digital solutions in industry. There, students and staff of both partners will address industrial tasks with AI models that can help explore deposits and predict oil extraction and ice flow. The lab will also train specialists capable of delivering new digital industrial solutions.

  19.12.2023

• Every Project Is a New Challenge: ITMO Fellow Iuliia Melchakova Talks Molecular Design, Spintronics, and Studying in South Korea

  From developing new drugs to predicting molecular properties and establishing fast information transfer – to accomplish these tasks, scientists turn to molecular design. This field is also studied at ITMO, and for this article we spoke with Iuliia Melchakova, an ITMO Fellow, to learn more about its applications.

  17.11.2023

• ITMO Scientists Discover Universal Measure to Predict Protein Folding

  Researchers from ITMO’s Infochemistry Scientific Center have suggested an algorithm that can calculate a molecule’s dimensionality – whether it’s 2D, 3D, or an intermediate state. Unlike other existing methods, the new one allows scientists to identify the folding state in biomolecules and track its progress. In an article published in Royal Society Open Science, the researchers described their molecular dynamics-based method and compared it to others, such as the Monte Carlo simulation and the widely used AlphaFold algorithm.

  14.09.2022

• Digital Model of ITMO Highpark’s Engineering Network Receives Positive Evaluation

  The St. Petersburg Administration highlights that this is the first time in Russia that the digital model of a linear-type infrastructure has been positively assessed by the State Expertise Center.

  23.12.2020

• ITMO University Scientists Create App to Calculate COVID-19 Infection Risks Based on Human Behavior

  During the current coronavirus pandemic, even leaving one’s home is always a risk. Each time, people are faced with a dilemma: going to the store or ordering delivery? Taking the subway or walking to work? ITMO University researchers have developed an application that demonstrates how tightening or loosening self-isolation and quarantine measures would have an effect on the infection rates in various countries. This project is a part of a larger initiative on the modeling of social processes in the conditions of a pandemic.

  13.04.2020

• Digital Identity: Current Trends and Future Prospects

  Last week, the latest in a series of public lectures about science and technology, organized by ITMO University’s Science Communication Center, was held at the New Holland creative space. This time around, attendees had the pleasure of hearing from Alexander Boukhanovsky, PhD, the head of ITMO University’s School of Translational Information Technologies and the eScience Research Institute, who spoke about the modern state of digital identity technologies and their applications. Below are the key highlights of his talk.

  05.08.2019

• New York University Professor’s Take on Future of Digital Cities

  Stanislav Sobolevsky is an Associate Professor of Practice at New York University (NYU), the Head of Urban Complexity Research Group and a co-founder of the Insight Data Labs consulting studio. His research interests include machine learning and Big Data, network analysis, human movement modeling, and the theory of differential equations. During his open lecture at ITMO University, he talked about a new scientific field, urban informatics, and in particular what issues it deals with and how it helps make cities more livable.

  13.11.2018

• Fulbright Recipient Vasiliy Leonenko on His Research in US

  Vasiliy Leonenko, Associate Professor at the High-Performance Computing Department, spent over a year in the USA on a Fulbright program. Working in Durham, North Carolina, he collaborated with specialists from RTI International, a major US research organization specializing in synthetic populations, on a detailed dynamic model of the spread of influenza in St. Petersburg. In an interview for ITMO.NEWS, he talked about his project and the peculiarities of working in the USA.

  25.07.2018