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• 8 Skills to Help AI Engineers Keep Their Jobs

  In recent years, popular voice assistants like Alice, Siri, and Alexa have evolved from programs capable of fulfilling simple tasks into full-scale AI assistants. With them has evolved the stack of technologies that engineers need to have a grasp on – from voice generation and speech processing to LLMs and generative search. What skills do AI engineers need to build now to keep their jobs tomorrow? That was the topic of a recent lecture given at ITMO’s Yandex space by Valery Stromov, the CEO of Alice and Smart Devices at Yandex. Mr. Stromov heads a team of over 700, with whom he is developing a service now used by about 47 million people. Read on for the highlights of the talk.

  17.12.2025

• From 2K Applications to 29 Projects: ITMO and Alfa-Bank Hold AI Course for Educators

  ITMO and Alfa-Bank have recently had the second launch of their online professional development course for university lecturers who would like to master AI technologies, learn to apply them in the classroom, and develop their own AI-assisted projects. 161 people from over 30 cities in Russia completed the course.

  16.12.2025

• ITMO Researcher Wins Sberbank’s Scientific Award in AI in Education

  Mikhail Medvedev, a researcher at ITMO’s Laboratory for Intelligent Technologies in Infochemistry, became a laureate of the 2025 Sberbank Scientific Award in the newly-introduced category “AI in Science. Physical World” for developing digital chemistry methods for predicting substance properties using AI and molecular modeling.

  10.12.2025

• AI Prompt Generator Developed at ITMO

  A team of ITMO’s Computer Technologies Lab (CT-Lab) developed CoolPrompt, a library that automatically optimizes prompts for large language models (LLMs). It makes the process simpler and faster and allows nontechnical specialists to achieve expected outcomes from their prompts. The framework was first unveiled at AI Journey this year.

  09.12.2025

• ITMO Students Become Two-Time Winners of International AIDAO Contest by Yandex Education and HSE University

  Yandex Education and HSE University’s Faculty of Computer Science have announced the results of the international Artificial Intelligence and Data Analysis Olympiad (AIDAO). The contest brought together 248 teams from 14 countries, including Russia, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Germany, and Iran. For the second year in a row, the ITMO team AI Capybara took the first place at the competition – their AI vision system for autonomous vehicles proved to be the most accurate.

  01.12.2025

• ITMO Students Secure 5.8 Million Rubles at International AI Challenge

  ITMO students reigned supreme at the international AI Challenge competition. Breaking last year’s record, winners and runners-up from ITMO secured certificates for a total of 5.8 million rubles. Within the contest, 10,000 students of schools and universities from 75 countries battled each other for a prize fund of 15.6 million rubles.

  27.11.2025

• ITMO’s New AI Assistant for Physicists Makes Theoretical Calculations and Material Selection Simple

  Developed at ITMO, AI-Materials Project is an AI assistant that significantly facilitates and speeds up calculations of material properties based on fundamental laws of physics. Complex computations no longer require deep theoretical expertise or specialized software, and the process now takes just minutes instead of a full day. With this new AI-powered tool, scientists will be able to determine a material's physical properties faster and more accurately in order to select the best option for research in laser technologies, optics, as well as thermal and microelectronics.

  27.11.2025

• AI Brainstorming and Techno Rave: Notes from Techno Quest by ITMO and Yandex

  Is it possible to create a project for Yandex in just two hours? Guess what! It is, and AI is here to help. At the techno quest Future Gets Coded Here, ITMO students worked on their projects with Alice AI, and in the final, Yandex experts chose which were ready to go into production and which – needed some improvements. The event was also attended by Ilya Nowkie, a famous million-follower blogger, who enjoyed the techno rave and coded his future alongside ITMO students. Here are the highlights.

  21.11.2025

• ITMO and Yandex to Train Specialists in Physical AI

  Together with other Russian universities, Yandex and ITMO are launching a new educational program called Physical AI Garage. The graduates will specialize in physical AI and will be trained on real-life industrial cases. At ITMO, Physical AI Garage will become a track within the Robotics and AI educational program. Admissions will start in the summer of 2026; studies will be tuition-free via scholarship programs.

  13.11.2025

• A Better Way: ITMO Presents AI-Based Service for Public Transit Route Optimization

  ConnectPT, developed by a team from ITMO’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence, can analyze existing public transportation routes and provide recommendations on how to improve them. With the service, urban planners and transportation engineers will be able to spend less time on developing the transportation system, while also lowering the risk of errors. Compared to similar products, the new open-source system can work with a minimal amount of data about urban development and transportation infrastructure, as well as being more flexible to client demands. 

  30.10.2025