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• ITMO University to Digitize Local Archives

  ITMO researchers have set out to develop intelligent services to process historical records for St. Petersburg’s Archive Committee. The tools will recognize handwritten and printed texts, structure archival data, enable semantic search, and perform optical diagnostics of fragile originals to prevent any damage. The corresponding agreement was signed at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) 2026.

  08.06.2026

• Russia Launches Competence Center to Improve Data Centers

  At the conference Digitalization of Industrial Russia, Rusnano (T-Nano), ITMO University, and United Heavy Machinery have signed a tripartite agreement aimed at advancing optoelectronic devices and photonic integrated circuits (PICs). The technologies will set the ground for a new generation of eco-friendly and high-performance data centers and consequently ensure a higher quality of data storage, processing, and transmission.

  20.05.2026

• ITMO Tops Russian Universities Digitalization Ranking

  The digital services provider Rostelecom and the Internet Initiatives Development Fund’s Accelerator have unveiled the results of their study of digital transformation efforts by Russian universities. Having analyzed 25 participants of the Priority 2030 national program, the experts ranked the universities by their level of digitalization. The first place is shared by ITMO University and Innopolis.

  16.12.2025

• ITMO and Friends of St. Petersburg Project Restore Lost Paintings with AI

  Recently, ITMO curated a project on AI-assisted restoration of historic panels at the Catherine Palace in Tsarskoe Selo. The restoration workshop was organized by the Friends of St. Petersburg project with technological support from Yandex Cloud. 37 local students, including 14 young professionals from ITMO, took part in the workshop: using neural networks, they created images that will be used during restoration works at the palace.

  11.06.2025

• ITMO Wins Digital TOP Award in Education

  ITMO University was honored at the recent Digital TOP awards in the category Education for the launch of its Laboratory for Applied Digital Chemistry. At the lab, school and university students develop IT tools that can contribute to the development of new medical products and microelectronic devices. 

  22.10.2024

• ITMO and Tatneft Develop Industrial AI Assistant

  Researchers from ITMO and Tatneft have designed the Digital Expert Council – a smart LLM-based platform for the staff of the oil and gas company. The system can answer questions from various fields of Tatneft’s focus, conduct brainstorming sessions, and assist with strategic decisions. In the future, the AI-based platform may assist in accelerating business processes and boosting corporate performance. The product was unveiled by the partners at the forum Kazan Digital Week 2024.

  18.09.2024

• Realism of the Unseen: New Art & Science Exhibition of Works by ITMO Master’s Students

  What are digital immortality and xenotransplantation? Can we discover new means of communication between animals and humans? How – and why – can you try on some bacterial makeup? And do cats go to their own digital paradise? Find answers to these unexpected questions in the creations of ITMO Art & Science students, showcased at the exhibition Realism of the Unseen. The exhibition is on until August 11 at ITMO’s AIR space.

  30.07.2024

• Yes to New Worlds: ITMO Graduate Nadezhda Bey Opens Her First Personal Exhibition

  Mixed reality, a technological forest, and optical illusions – all that will greet visitors at the immersive exhibition Yes to New Worlds!, authored by Nadezhda Bey, a graduate of ITMO’s Art & Science Master’s program. Read on to learn more about the exhibition.

  15.03.2024

• How ITMO Students Created Profitable Businesses in 2 Months

  Within a university competition, ITMO students had two months to devise strategies for using digital transformation to benefit the real estate market. Out of 57 proposals, the university’s lecturers chose the two most thorough business plans, which will receive assistance and become a part of Sberbank’s ecosystem.

  21.12.2023

• An Omnipresent Tiger and Collective Fears: ITMO Experts Create Digital Theatrical Sets

  Contemporary theater is more than just the stage and the actors – these days, many productions incorporate various technologies, such as holographic projections. Recently, experts from ITMO have collaborated with stage directors within the project Live Laboratory “Digital Stage” on digital set designs for several plays that premiered at the Lensovet Theatre. In this article, we talk to the creators about the synthesis of high tech and thespian talents on the modern stage. 

  06.07.2023